Eagle and Flags

 You might think you are seeing the same wall hanging that I posted last Wednesday. It's definitely the same border but a different panel. 

I liked the border on last week's wall hanging so much that I decided to use it again. 

Isn't the eagle so majestic as he is guarding the flags. 

Getting the next project ready for piecing.

But first I needed to clean the bobbin area of my domestic machine. I think it is long overdue!!! I probably shouldn't show you, but I will anyway. YIKES! 

The super dark purple iris are starting to bloom. Sometimes they look almost black and then when the sun shines on them a gorgeous deep purple. Definitely not going to have a lot of blooms this year. 

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Getting ready for Halloween

I have been whipping through more panels lately. Before vacation I pieced at least four of them. And I am now trying to get them quilted and into the shop.  Who can resist this cutie! 

These little guys are part of a pre printed panel that I cut apart and am dividing them up into two wall hangings. Only one will get done now. Here you can see I am auditioning fabrics to coordinate with it.

After cutting them apart I brought them up to a workable size by framing them with solid black fabric. And then added checkerboards, more framing and pinwheels. 

 

To finish it all off I used a black and orange checkerboard fabric for the outer border.  It came out to be 23" x 23".  

Stay tuned for more panel wall hangings in the near future!

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Strawberry fields and panel challenge

 I don't know about all of you, but I am dreaming of summer sunshine🌞 and strawberries🍓!  I bet all of you are too.  Can you just taste the yummy sweetness?  

On Saturdays, when it fits in my schedule, I join the Inquiring Quilter Facebook group for Saturday Sew In. This past Saturday was going to be 80 degrees here, perfect day for being outside. The hubby and I went for a nice bike ride in the morning and then I set to work clearing out a flowerbed in preparation for planting some posies I bought on Friday.  Later in the afternoon I started sewing this strawberry table runner.  The quilting and binding was done on Monday.  

But before I could ever start it I spent at least half of an hour searching for the zip lock baggy with leftover red squares.  Now I used to keep it right on my counter top, but back in December I got the bright idea to move things around😏.  I thought I might have put it in the closet with a bunch of other WIPS/UFO's.  I looked and looked and came up with nothing. Looked elsewhere, nothing. So I went back to the closet and started to pull out all of two shelves determined that I had put it in there. I emptied the first shelf with no luck, started on the second and bam, there it was!  The ironic part is I was only inches from it the first time😛.  I am just sure none of you have ever experienced that!

Now it's back to more red white and blue, pretty much more of ones I have already done.

Don't forget the voting polls are now open for all the panel challenge entries at Prairie Moon Quilts.  I might have entered two.  One of them is Harvest Puzzle that I blogged about HERE.  The other is this patriotic wall hanging.

The center with the flag and fireworks is the panel and I added red borders, friendship stars and outer borders of coordinating patriotic prints. Simple additions to a panel make it shine a bit. 

There are 40+ entries in the challenge, it's so fun to see what everyone came up with to make their panel unique. 

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