Hello, everyone.
The pickup truck with the stars and fireworks was done on burlap. Of course, that was a chunk out of a larger piece of the stuff. So (surprise, surprise) there was more burlap lying around the sewing studio...
American readers will (or should) recognize the first sentence of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. (They were dedicating a national cemetery for military dead on part of the site of the Battle of Gettysburg which took place not long previous to this event.) This speech is one of the classic orations of American history.
It took our President Lincoln 5 drafts to get this short speech right. (So if you're a student and think every word you write is perfect the first time, learn from the master and learn to rewrite.) He was actually the introductory speaker for the event, another man followed him with an address that took something like an hour.
Mr. Lincoln's five minute speech lives on as a masterpiece, while the famous star speaker's name is only known to really obsessive students of Civil War era history. People used to memorize the entire speech for public declamations...rather like the "Duty, Honor, Country" speech by General MacArthur in the 20th century.
The famous phrase "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" is from this speech.
The flying eagle below the text was one of the free (well, actually "party favor") designs that was a gift-with-purchase of my Hatch Personalizer embroidery software, it was thrown in by the dealer along with some other designs I haven't gotten any use out of yet.
The hanging method for this is the same as for the pickup flag, just stick a dowel into the ribbon loops and hang the whole thing with a string.
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