18 June 2015 ~ 0 Comments

States Of Modern: Mississippi

Ahh… Mississippi… Home of gracious Southern Hospitality, lovely Magnolia Trees and… Celebrated in the oldest spelling song in the nation.  I can not type the name Mississippi without singing the letters in my mind!

mississippiSo for our block, I used the Magnolia Tree on a field of three bars, Blue, White and Red, arranged like the bars of the Mississippi Flag.  Very Pretty!

Mississippi State Facts
Capitol: Jackson
Admission To Statehood:  December 10,1817
Flag:  Flag:
The committee to design a State Flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. The committee recommended for the flag “one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.
Bird:  Mockingbird
Flower:  Magnolia
Largest Cities: Jackson, Gulfport and Southaven

“M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I” is now my permanent earworm!

Here is the Mississippi Block Pattern PDF…

 The States Of Modern Mississippi

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Here is the Mississippi Block Pattern PDF…

 The States Of Modern Mississippi

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