Friday, August 3, 2018

Fisherman Fred and a basket - love it!

Here is my Month 7 of "Sweet Land of Liberty" that I changed to "Pieceful Country".  Originally I was bummed that I didn't have enough reds and blues to do the Americana quilt.  Now that I have changed it to country colors and a country theme, I LOVE IT!  With the guidance of Humble Quilts and others in the group, I have thrived on the creativity in this quilt as I made it my own.  I used my leftover Dear Jane fabrics and am nearly out.  This quilt was a perfect fit for them. 

Please check out the other Sweet Land of Liberty quilts in progress at Humble Quilts.  

Instead of a flag I opted to make a Fisherman Fred.  If you are going to have a Sun Bonnet Sue, you have to have Fred.  I still need to add a fishing line to Fred's pole.  The fish is just flying in mid air for now.  My fish was also a Buggy Barn pattern.

I chose a Buggy Barn pattern for the basket and added the bird and applique' flower from another Buggy Barn pattern book.  I think this is my very favorite section in the whole quilt.  I love it so much that I think it will end up moving toward the middle instead of the bottom when I do my final assembly. 

I love the way the basket section of the block turned out so well that I may just make a whole quilt of them at some point.  They just look so fun with the bird and flower added.




My stars have plenty of room to trim down to a rectangle as guided by the instructions, but I am leaving them big for now to true later.  They will be bigger than they are supposed to be though.  No worries, I will fit them in however they be.  I think I even made a couple extra. 





Here is the quilt laid out, although it is still subject to some moving around (especially the Fisherman Fred section).  I decided to quit making the economy blocks and just do flying geese for the side borders.  I just wanted it a little more uniform.  You can see that I will need to make more. 




I experimented with putting stars on one side but likely won't use it.  I don't have enough large pieces of fabric left to make those Buggy Barn style stars.



Because Buggy Barn patterns have you make more than one block at a time, I have extras.  I also have extra stars and economy blocks.  I want to put them on the back if I don't use them on the front.  Putting blocks on the back is so cute.

Here are my leftover blocks.



 I have been busy making Buggy Barn horses for another quilt for my grand children.  I only have two babies for now and am getting a third in less than 2 months.  I want to have small quilts that stay at Grandma's house for them to snuggle in when they visit.  I visualize us watching movies or reading stories under them.  This horse quilt is the first.

Each horse will be in its own barn when this project is finished.  I made one extra for the back.  It will be hard to choose which one gets the shaft.  The horses will have eyes and nostrils as well.




I am linking up with:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?
Friday Foto Fun
Needle and Thread Thursday
Midweek Makers
Wednesday Wair Loss
Finish it Up Friday



9 comments:

  1. Wow I love your unique blocks. I can't wait to see this finished.

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  2. oh my goodness, I love it!!

    thanks so much for linking up!

    brooke@sillymamaquilts.com

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  3. That is fabulous! Fisherman caught one BIG fish for himself. Love the Buggy Barn patterns.

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  4. Adorable quilt and so much room for creativity. It's obvious you're having a blast. So cute. The horse quilt will be adorable! Thanks for linking them both to Wednesday Wait Loss.

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  5. I really like your Not-A-SLOL quilt. Yes, put that more central, it's a great block! The horses are adorable and will be very loved.

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  6. These are so cute!!! I love all the animals, so adorable!

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  7. These are such fun projects... Very cute too

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  8. Which Buggy Barn Book has the horse pattern? My horse-loving g’daughter would love it! Rcoyle at olemiss dot edu

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