Design Wall Monday 8.8.2022

I pulled fabric to work in another quilt with one of the eagle pillow panels. This panel I think I'll refer to as 'the Bonded Pair'. It's going to be a simple and maybe, somewhat boring quilt. Or maybe simple and quiet might describe it better!

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SoScrappy Saturday 8.6.2022

Today is the first Saturday of August of the color orange! Just in time, I made my crumby hearts along with their cut off triangles!

pattern credit: Scrappy Improve hearts

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Finish or NOT Friday 8.5 2022

I'm inching closer to a finish on the Mt. Rushmore Eagle quilt. I managed to finish the quilting and apply the binding to the front. This is as far as it goes for now. I volunteered to watch the Michigan Quilt of Valor booth at the AQS Grand Rapids 2022 show. The show starts on Wednesday August 17th and runs through Saturday August 20th. I thought I would take a few quilts and see if I can get the hand sewing of the binding back while the booth is slow.

pattern credit: *modified nine patches or

                            Mock Trip Around the World by Quilting Assistant

                       *Bev's Stars (Bev's take on this strippy star ruler)

setting based on this quilt (I think this was a Google search of 'Marine Corps Quilts):

I also moved my Flags for Sue quilt along to a flimsy. Once again, I opted not to use all the flag blocks that had the floral in the star zone.

pattern credit: Alycia's Flag for Sue block drive 2018

setting credit: Alycia's setting found here

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WIP Wednesday 8.3.2022

I have the Mt. Rushmore Eagle on the longarm. I really wanted to change up the panto but in the end...serpentine won! Serpentine gives such a nice even coverage and doesn't use a lot of thread!

pattern credit:    *Modified nine patch or

                                Mock Trip Around the World by Quilting Assistant

                            *Bev's Stars (based on this strippy star ruler)

I'm also making progress on my Flags for Sue. Here are the parts ready to sew together. Guess what?! I still feel that the floral in the 'star zone' is too feminine a look. So, I'm going to use one in the lower right corner and use other various navy fabrics in the 'start zone'.

Here are a few on the design wall. 

pattern credit: Flags for Sue

layout credit: found on Alycia's blog here

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Design Wall Monday 8.1.2022

 I finished the top/bottom borders on the Mt. Rushmore eagle panel. It seems as if the eagles have over taken this quilt but I like it!

pattern credit: *Modified Nine Patch or

                            Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World 

                        *Bev's Stars (Bev's take on this strippy star ruler)

setting credit (it must have been from my Google search of 'Marine Corps Quilt')

I pulled fabric for my next project. Well, I thought I would make a few more Flags for Sue blocks and it would be a quick project. I had  three that I used a floral for the 'star area' that I decided not to use in another project so I was a quarter of the way done since I had three made and wanted 12 blocks total. At least that is how my mind saw it! LOL I had found more of the floral blue at the store so I thought, 'Let's do this!' 

Flags for Sue is a block that Alycia did a block drive as a memorial for Sue after her passing in 2018.

pattern credit: Flags for Sue from Alycia

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SoScrappy Saturday 7.30.2022

Today is the fifth Saturday of July of the color PURPLE!

Right about this time of year, a quilter's fancy starts thinking about blocks to make for the next Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Will it be churn dashes, nine patches, four patches, stars, rectangles or something a bit more complex? Both last year and this year, I kept my blocks fairly simple and this kept me motivated to 'keep up'  my RSC blocks. For RCS2023, I am thinking about houses and huts as block possibilities. So I pulled out my purple 2.5 inch squares and a crumb block. I followed Debby Brown's directions for her 'Little Pink Houses' pattern for the 16 patch but I made a cutting error on the crumb block. That one looks more like a hut with a flat roof! LOL

pattern credit: Debby Brown's Little Pink Houses

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Finish or NOT Friday 7.29.2022

I'm calling the Modified  Nine Patch (aka Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World) finished! It was a kit from the guild that didn't include binding. Nothing in the stash really was working for binding. I'm sure that there is something in the guild stash that will work!

pattern credit: Modified Nine Patch or

                        Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World

I found a back in the guild stash that needed just a bit more added to it. So I added the cream at the top. I'm not exactly sure why? there is the little cream 'window' in the blue portion. It's a head scratcher for sure....'Why DID she do that?!' 'Because she COULD!'

I've gotten the main portion of the Mt. Rushmore's Eagle done with the extra 'Mock Trip Around the World' blocks and a few stars made with the leftovers from the above backing...the cream. Now to add top and bottom borders to bring it to size.

pattern credit:     Modified Nine Patch or

                                Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World

                            Bev's stars (Bev's take on this strippy star)

My inspiration quilt: I think it's from a Google Search of 'Marine Corpse Quilts'

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WIP Wednesday 7.27.2022

I'm quilting on the kit I picked up from the Casual Quilts. I had fraken-pieced a smaller back at the meeting and had a smaller fraken-batt from the leftover Casual Quilter's QOV's. Seemed like a match made in heaven... LOL!

 pattern credit: modified nine patch or   

                        Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World

panto: happy times

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Design Wall Monday 7.25.2022

 L👀K! Who made it back to the design wall and it's all sewn together! Thanks to Bonnie who said she liked the off set barn raising lay out. It was just the right nudge for me to sew it into this set!

pattern credit: modified nine patch or

                        Quilting Assistant Mock Trip Around the World, found here

                               and Bonnie for her layout suggestion!

Since I had a few leftover 'modified nine patches', I decided to see how I liked them around one of the eagle pillow panels I had received from the FB QOV Working Stars Admin.

Umm...not too excited about it. For some reason I decided to make the stars from a tutorial Bev gave us when I lived in Wisconsin. So I refer to the stars as 'Bev's Stars'. The only problem is that I didn't have enough lights in any one fabric. I am using what I have available and trying NOT to succumb and buy more!

I'm not realing liking this set either. Seems so much harder when you have limited blocks and/or fabrics!

I did a Pinterest and Google Search of 'Marine Corps Quilts' and found a number of interesting ideas for using a smaller panel. This is one of those that I liked. I have more light fabric to match the stars on the top and bottom. I wasn't sure what to put in the corners so I cut into some eagle fabric I had on inventory to audition it.

pattern credit: modified nine patch or Quilting Assistant MTATW

                       'Bev's Stars' (it's Bev's take on this ruler) and this layout (must 

                        be from Google Search as not on my Pinterest board)

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SoScrappy Saturday 7.23.2022

Today is the fourth Saturday of July of the color Purple!

Time for my 'Missing U' block. This one is just a tad on the wonky side!

pattern credit: Cheryl Arkison in her book 'Sunday Morning Quilts'

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I wonder if August's color will be bright greens or orange? 

Stay tuned...we'll find out in a week as July has 5 Saturdays!