Finally . . .

It took a little extra time, but here are my stars.

 

They aren't perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with them.

Edith

I fixed up my house & figured out what I did wrong.  A learning experience.

Here are my three cute birdhouses!  They were a lot of fun to make.

Yeah! :) Americana Row 2 finally squared away

I had the hardest time figuring out what I wanted to use for my background on row 2 until my eye glanced across the tub holding some of my hubby's older Air Force uniforms. (I'm pulling all my stuff from stash, except that I did need to buy some red & white stripe fabric). His uniforms are PERFECT for this!  

And yes, he knows I harvested a BDU shirt for this.  :)

Using that necessitated some adjusted construction strategies. First I needed to resolve the issue with poor value difference on the hearts. They just melted into the cammies. So I edged all the pieces with a taupe plaid. Second, that stuff is like sewing with duck cloth canvas almost, so I appliqued the hearts onto whole blocks rather than piecing background around them. I turned the edges under and blanket stitched them on. No need for stabilizer with BDUs as the background.

Now for the fun of bin-diving for bird house scraps! - I really do love that. Not so much the clean-up afterward. . . 

row 2 completed

I was on a roll today.  Got row 2 all done.  A close up of one of the hearts.  I like the navy fabric with the works.   I don't know if I can face making the whole row of fireworks blocks.  I have made 1 of them.   My congratulations to all of you who have made a whole row of them!

Cammy's Americana

Cammy was able to get a flag/heart block finished just in time.

Cathy - Americana

Cathy has made her firework stars.

Marlene

Marlene made another cute house.

Bev's Blocks

Bev has made blocks for each row.

Nothing like waiting until the very last minute!

Finally got my block done. Just had way too much to do this month.  I have enjoyed looking at all the wonderful blocks that everyone has made so far.

House #2 - Done :)

 

Number 2 is done. On to Number 3, after that the embellishments :)

One Spring house done

Hopefully I will catch up with the rest of the row.

Marian's Spring House Blocks and Americana Row

Boy Oh Boy, I hope I'm doing this right. I've never made an actual post to Blogger before.. Being a wordpress gal, I'm very use to that, so this is brand new to me.

This is my Americana Row

I love love love how this row turned out.. It is the complete row, but my space is somewhat limited, so I just folded it up enough to show parts of the row.

Village House 1

This definitely needs something in the window sills, so I'll be working on some embroidery for that soon, otherwise, this block looks better in real life than it does the picture.

Village House 2

Tis weird, I had stabilizer behind the window on my door here, but I think I shouldn't have used such a heavy one, it gets a little crinkly in the stitching when you tear the stabilizer away. I did use the triple stitch tho also on my machine to make the lines in the window part of the door.

Village House 3

I plan to embroider something in the windows, maybe a vase with flowers or a lamp perhaps.

Marian

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Seams To Be Sew

Another Spring House

Marlene made this little house.  It is amazing that she has it done because she just joined the group and received the pattern two nights ago.

Rows Completed

 I finished the  first row of the Spring Quilt Along and love the way it turned out.  I made a few little quilts and a few little aprons to go on the clothes lines.

 First I made all 8 of these fireworks blocks and then I re-looked at the picture and had a palm to the forehead moment.  Duh!  

The next attempt went much better.  I had a little trouble seeing the different shading for the different colors.

I made the next row just after the first fireworks and I like the way they turned out.

However I'm going to redo them in the same fabric line I used for the second set of fireworks.  I'll probably get them done tomorrow just in time for the new rows to come out.  Maybe I'll make a pillow out of these....

Deb's Americana Blocks

Deb has made a  block in each Americana row.

Sheila = 2 more houses

Sheila finished the other two houses for her row.

Sue's "Colors of Liberty"

Sue found time to get a block done.

Lynne has a firework star and two houses done.

Lynne's firework star.

Lynne's houses.  Blogger wants to turn it sideway. Sorry.

Pat V has a block done.

Here is Pat's  pink house with a cat inside.