February Finishes so far

My sister sent me this quilt to quilt on my long-arm. The pattern is called "Wonky Stars" and it's from Missouri Star Quilt co. She used a Jelly Roll with tiny stars on it. It's very vibrant. I chose a Dragonfly Meander stitching pattern by Anne Bright and I used a bright aqua thread. 

The quilting.

I used dragonflies because her back was a batik with dragonflies. 

Then I even bound it for her using the backing fabric.

Yes, I'm a good sister like that! ha

Now to find a box...

This was a panel/kit that a friend gave me. I then passed it on to another friend and she sewed it together. I quilted it with a water meander from Anne Bright. 

This design quilts out super fast and doesn't use much thread. 

Here's the back that she pieced. I even managed to center it. ha

This is my #6 finish for the APQ UFO challenge group on Facebook.  We had to list 12 UFOs-one for each month. They choose a number for you to work on each month. February's was #6 on the list. This was an easy finish as it only needed me to make a backing, quilt it and bind it.

Done.

Done.

And Done!

Sweet Land of Liberty - Together at Last

I found a place for the Liberty Bell. My friend suggested putting it on the flag. I like it.

I feel like I landed on the moon when I stuck this flag in the watermelon. Ha.

The bottom half of the piece is all together. 

Welcome to the neighborhood! The 3 house blocks- I shaved a little off the chimney piece at the top and added a sky strip across all of them. I did 2 star blocks and 2 filler blocks to make the row fit across. 

Admiring, admiring. Pondering a border around flying geese side and bottom just so I can stabilize all those little seams. I'll stay stitch the other sides for sure.

Sweet Land of Liberty Aug progress

I want to give a shout out to Lori of Humble Quilts for hosting this quilt a long. She is posting the final instructions today.  Ten months in the making. 

I really changed it up this month. I used this sunflower block from Lori Holt's book Farm Girl Vintage.  

I made my own watermelon block with crow. I might stick a flag in the watermelon. I got this section together but I was waiting for the final instructions to complete the bottom so I could get it all together. It's been fun.

Sweet Land assembly September

I changed my blocks for September. I made a sunflower block that was 6 inches wide. I had to add a strip to the side to make it wide enough to match up with the leaf and bird blocks. I changed the other angel block to a watermelon with crow. It needs something else in the blank area. He needs legs embroidered as well. 

Meanwhile-I haven't seen this counter in 9 months. I have to have a repair to the ceiling so I had to put all of my fabric away. I have a ridiculous amount of fabric. I really need to sew faster. Ha.

Sweet Land of Liberty August blocks

I managed to assemble the top portion of this fantastic quilt. This quilt is a Cheri Payne pattern that is part of a sew along being hosted by Lori of Humble Quilts. I have had to improvise and make it mine like all of the other quilters working on this project. It has been really fun working on this puzzle.

My Liberty Bell is waiting for the bottom assembly before it finds a place to call home. The log cabin block got its crow.

Here are the other parts for August. Can't wait for the last 2 months of instructions.

Sweet Land of Liberty August

I have made a little progress on my Sweet Land of Liberty blocks. Sew along by Humble Quilts.

These 3 fabrics are going to be the long skinny flag block.  I drew the liberty angel and Liberty Bell just have to get them fused onto the backgrounds and raw edge applique them down.

Sweet land of liberty for July

This is my July section of the quilt for the Sweet Land of Liberty quilt along hosted by Lori at Humble Quilts. I really liked doing the fish block. I decided to add a table cloth for the flower pot background.

All the stars are assembled.

I sewed everything together and then took another look at a finished quilt and saw that I jumped the gun and assembled it without adding another strip between the stars and blocks. But it will not be unsewed. I will improvise later! I left the stars off of the victory block. I think the table cloth is busy and I don't think the stars will add anything. I like the clean look of this one.

These are not the same width. What else is new. Ha.

I think I should have used a darker fabric for the Liberty word. But it looks okay in person. I might add a heart, star or ball to the top of the flagpole. Seems like it's missing something. What do you think?

Sweet Land of Liberty blocks for June

I changed the tree and gave my lady a basket.

Sew along with Lori at Humblequilts

Four more economy blocks.

Sweet Land of Liberty May

Flying Geese. Check

Economy blocks. Check

4 girls and Log Cabin. Check

Donut stars above log cabin. Not! I had this one piece of Debbie Mum fabric from the 90's that I wanted to use in this quilt somewhere and it happened to fit right here after adding blue star borders.

Check-Ha!

This heart cornerstone was fussy cut from an old plaid fabric that I have. Loving this project however my blocks either turned out too big or the top part of my quilt is too small. There will be some fudge factor happening before this row is added to the top part. I love an opportunity to make mine unique.

Sweet Land of Liberty qal April 2018

These are my blocks for month 4 of the Sweet Land of Liberty quilt along. I have more photos of them further down in the blog. I haven't added the 2 inch squares to the bottom of the star yet. I'm waiting for the next instructions then I will complete it and the row.

Changed up my Lady Liberty. The other one was too frumpy for me. Ha

I haven't adhered my stars yet to the pineapple. I might change them. 

I thought I sewed 5 of these economy blocks but only seem to have 4. I love picking out the fabrics for these.

Flying geese. Not loving them. I will have to mix it up more before the final decision on where to put these.

Sweet land of liberty qal April blocks

I perused pinterest and saw this version of lady liberty that I liked better than the original version.  I drew my own of course. I made my flying geese and economy blocks. I've been caught up for 2 weeks so I have made 2 more quilt tops in the mean time. 

I made my own version of the pineapple leaves and used a blue background that turned out great in person. It has good contrast. I have the stars made for the body of the pineapple I just haven't put them on yet. 

Sweet land of liberty quilt along April blocks

I didn't judge my word placement very well. I embroidered then added the flying geese.

Cut off the letters just a little. Wasn't about to redo it. ha

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? My son(22) asked where Spongebob was. I said I have some spongebob fabric from years ago maybe I'll put a piece of him on the back of the quilt. I think I will put an Uncle Sam in the quilt somewhere. I'll probably replace one of the angel blocks with Sam when it comes time to sew that block.

Sweet land of liberty sew along

I got all of my pieces put together for January, February and March. 

Hard to believe I just started this about 2 weeks ago.

I've been obsessed with getting caught up.

I love this thing.

I used an ombre green fabric for the vines. I really love the affect and the brightness. It really stands out. I decided on red lettering so I didn't want too much red for the berries that's why I went with a solid purple.

I gave my short squatty eagle a head and beak.  

I made my letters way too big.  I cut them out with my sillouette machine. But I really like them spread out across the top. What are your thoughts?