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Red, White, and Blue Gifts

My best friend's birthday is in a few days and I almost have her gift ready.

As I quilted the wavy pattern back and forth, I thought of the ocean and then patriotic lyrics and tunes started going through my mind and I thought "From Sea to Shining Sea" might be a good name for the quilt.  It still needs binding.  Did you notice that the inside stars are also double pinwheels and then I added flying geese to make Big stars?  So each block is a double pinwheel, double star block.

I'm also making a quilt for her new grandson.  

His dad and grandpa are fishermen in Alaska and I had a Charm pack called "Catch of the Day" and made up this pattern with some stars and a few 9 patches.  I'm going to add some big borders so  it'll be nice sized.

The thing that's holding me up is packing to move to my new house. 

After 33 years I have way too much stuff!  Here's my new kitchen!

Americana in the Works

Scrappy Stars and Chains Americana Quilt top

It was originally going to be donated for an auction but since I couldn't get it completed on time, I donated many wall hangings and table toppers and much money was still raised.

 Here are the patriotic phrases all embroidered.

    

Here's a 13" mini topper.

I have taken pictures for a tutorial for the flying geese and the mini stars soon.

I saw a bunch of the cutest red, white, and blue mini quilts on Kathleen Tracy's blog here, in case you want to check them out.  You'll see the one I got the idea from but mines a little different.

Patriotic Embroidery Peak and Swirl Quilting

After piecing together a UFO done in red, white, and blue,

I realized that there was a good size plain section within  each side border that would be perfect for a patriotic salutation.

So I printed out some phrases and traced them onto the fabric.

These little corner stars will have red quilting around each star and a cute red heart button sewn inside.  I'll show you more later.

 Heres the pink pinwheel quilt first row quilted in bigger double loops.