Marlene's Fence

Rosemary's blocks are complete.

Blocks done except for embellisments

Hopefully I will get the embellishments on my blocks soon.  My fence is just an ordinary wood fence instead of a picket fence.  My husband made a 3 foot tall wood fence like this when our first grandchild was a toddler and we needed to make sure she stayed in the back yard.  It worked.
I have plans for the embellishments on the fence.

Cathy - Americana - Betsy Sue Ross Row

I've been working my backside off trying to get my new house in order so I can sew again.  Last night, I got my quilting room to this point...

Which means I was finally able to work on my sewing again!!!  So I took some time and got the applique' pieces cut for the Betsy Sue Ross row for the Americana QAL.  We have this one...

They still need a picture in the upper left corner but I couldn't find anything that I like there so that's waiting a bit.  Here's the next one...

I love the little eagles in the corners of the flags.  I'm going to stitch around them with a tan thread to make it look like a hoop.  Here's the last one...

I'm really loving this quilt along!  Here's the row...

I'm so glad that I'm finally able to sew again!! 

Nancy's Spring Row Fence Hang Up...

My fence is currently short a few posts for a simple and silly reason. It has to do with white-on-white fabric prints. I really like them, but it never fails that when I use them, I manage to sew on the wrong side! So a few posts are set aside awaiting repair. The prints are just kind of hard to distinguish for me. So I'll have to add on to the fence eventually, but it was easy and fun to piece.

September Sue from Kris

My Betsy Ross Sue is from Little Quilts.  This is my favorite Sue pattern and I knew I had to use her. I have never made her in RW&B, so that was a fun change.  I'm enjoying this quilt so much.

Spring Fence Block 1 - Paula Louceiro

I loved to make this block.

 So much fun. 

Now I have to make some embelishments. 

See you next month.

Betsy Ross row 4

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Wow, I am amazed at how nice this turned out.  I was apprehensive at first.  Thanks Deanna.  Glad to be finished with them though. 

Spring fence block

Here is my Spring fence block.  I figured I'd put up the one block.  I'll have to look around & think about embellishments.

Susan: Two Americana Blocks

I made some changes, but forgot one important one, so my blocks are a little wonky and 10.5 x 13 instead of 11.5, It's okay. I'll see what the next row is like and then put a filler in. I hope Deana forgives me, as she knows how I feel about paper-piecing. There would have been a lot worse mistakes if I'd tried that on these blocks!

I have quite a collection of Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Sam blocks and books, so I looked through and found these two. There will be one more girl, and I don't know if she'll have a flag or maybe some balloons. Makes a cute little parade, I think. I still need to embroider the flag poles, though. I'll do that when the third block is done. There will be a bead/button on back of Sue pinafores, too.
 

Frances made some Sue Blocks

Debra made a Sue

Here is my first Betsy Ross. The others are put together. I just need to finish the applique. But I am going out of town, so wanted to get this posted before I go.

.Lucy

I was able to work on my bird row too.  Hard to take good pictures with these long rows.  Any suggestions?

Here is my Americana Sue Row.  So much fun to make!

Spring QAL Complete

Fence and gate all done. I also finished all the embroidery. I did some embroidery I didn't care for and had to take apart part of the fence and add new. Mending my fence:)

I must admit, it feels great to have a whole complete row! Til next month.

Spring RAL Row #3

I'm not so sure about the gate on this... maybe it needs a blue strip across the top?  Or a rounded top?   And as always, any applique will be done later (or not) ;)

First 3 Rows

Kat's Americana Row 4

Hello everyone.  I'm enjoying all your individual creative touches on these creations.  I have my Americana Row 4 all ready, I do need to stitch down the fused applique pieces, but saving that for another time ----- probably January.  (g)

I posed more details  on my blog today, if you're interested.  http://scrapboxquilts.blogspot.com/2015/09/americana-qal-row-4.html

Have yourself a wonderful day playing with fabric (not laundry).    Kat Scribner

Deb's picket fence

USA Row

Since this quilt is going to a man I didn't want to add the sunbonnet Sue's.  

I decided to switch my Liberty row and USA row so there were not so many flags all in one spot.

 

I think this will look less busy if I have some sashing in between the rows. I haven't decided what color that will be though.

I love what everyone else is doing.  Can't wait for the next row.

Vivian

Scott's Not-Sun-Bonnet-Sue Row 4, Americana

Hi everyone! Boy, did I put a boatload of work out for myself with this Row 4 adjustment!

When I first saw the Americana quilt, the large star really looked quite Air Forcish to me. Since Scott is retiring after 26 years of active duty, I wanted to make this quilt for him in celebration of that (with some tweaks here and there).

This row is the place I wanted to swap out the original design for a sort of pictorial record of Scott's career. I got input from him to make sure I was picking things that he liked remembering. Can you tell what his job is? Stethoscopes will get added to his avatars when I do the stitching-down work and add all the details like lapels and pockets. With all my other workings, it would take me 5 years to get this finished by hand applique, so it's done in fusible. Which means I'll probably go back and do my birds this way, too, now.

The center scene depicts Scott's normal state of work at his Permanent Duty Stations in clinics or hospitals at state-side bases. Those have been Andrews in the D.C. area, Eglin on the Florida panhandle coast, Hurlburt also in Florida, and the Air Force Academy here on the mountainsides in Colorado.

Then there are 4 scenes for his major long-term deployments. (None of the myriad of shorter trips and TDYs is represented.) We have the NATO deployment in Croatia of 1998, 

the Korea remote assignment of 2001, 

the Oman tent city air base of 2003, 

and the Afghanistan Army-loaned deployment at Camp Alamo (who the heck thought *that* was an inspiring name??? I mean, don't they know what happened to everyone there? Freaked me out more than a little, I'll admit, but despite the necessity to always have a sniper escort and all kinds of things I never want to know about, he came home safely). 

By the way, some of those elements are not going to be where they are on the sketches. For instance, even the Air Force doesn't mount exam room sinks overhead.  ;D

I am no artist!!! It took me over 6 hours to draw out my sketches for this row. But I'm having fun with the assembly part now. I got almost all the avatars put together. I couldn't do Oman-Scott's body yet, because we can't find the old Desert camo uniforms that were worn during that time frame. I had to find a used one for sale, and when it gets here I'll finish that guy.

It's fun to see the changes in fabric and t-shirt and boot colors that Scott's career has spanned. He rarely ever had to wear the blues - the dark blue slacks and powder blue shirt. Once in a while a hospital commander would say he wanted everyone to wear the blues every Friday. That would last a couple months before s/he would say nevermind, just wear the BDUs.  lol!!

On deployment or stateside, this is what he wore from 1990 thru something like 2000:

Then it switched to the Desert BDUs that you can't see yet, 

and then some time like 2006, it went to the ABU fabric. This is the current ABU fabric uniform pants that I butchered to get fabric for the central and Afghanistan avatars:

We never had to buy the weird bluish uniforms that made an appearance, because the base he was at dragged its feet moving into that one and the next change came around pretty fast. That was lucky. We have many friends who had to spend lots of money getting that new color, just to have to buy all new uniforms a year later. And NOW - since the fabric of the current ABUs is not flame retardant, anyone going on deployment has to get another new design all over again. Being in the military is certainly interesting!

Betsy Sue Ross all done

I've completed the whole row. Even all the embroidery is done. And my teenager thinks the Sue's are cute:)

Now it's on to mending my fence.