September 1 has come and gone and it’s time to start the Stars & Stripes Sampler. I’m using the Fons & Porter book and info on the book can be found by clicking on that link.
This is one of those “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!” times around here. There surely haven’t been many finishes coming out of the sewing room lately but there are a whole lot of starts. As of today, one design wall is filled with the Christmas Town Sampler blocks, one is filled with blocks I’m making for a magazine. I need to get started on the quilt for my friend with breast cancer and I need to get the Texas quilt top quilted and bounded for the United Way auction. But September is here and I said I’d start the Stars & Stripes sampler. It’s never going to get finished if I don’t start, right?
Here’s the block I’m starting with:
Six of these are needed. I’m going to do this like I’m doing the Christmas Town Sampler and do the fusing but not the stitching so I can wait til I have everything fused and then do all the stitching so I don’t have to change threads so much.
I hope you see this on my design wall tomorrow!
Anyone else ready to start on this project?
Ardelia says
I did this as a block of the month years ago. All that is left is the borders. Believe or not, it is the number that was drawn for the UFO this month. Hopefully, I can get it done by the end of the month.
Debbie Rhodes says
I have my 4 patches cut out…. Hubby is roofing in this awful heat 92 already at noon… I am staying inside where it is cool….
Marion Morgan says
We’re moving so I’ll be behind but I’ll catch up after Christmas. Someone has to talk me through that crazy eagle!
Angie in SoCal says
I’m ready – I’ll be starting today. Since I have a ton of WIPs, and I really want to make this, I’m going to make a modified version of it as I don’t want such a big quilt.
Marky says
I’m hand quilting this quilt now, having made the top about 10 years ago. If you’re making the large quilt, Judy, you actually need 7 of those blocks. Six of the blocks are set together but there’s a seventh block amongst the other sampler blocks. At the time I made my quilt I didn’t know I’d be hand quilting the quilt so I didn’t use window-pane fusing and now I’m struggling to hand stitch through all that fusible in the circle. The one block is done and I’m dreading those 6 set together! That will probably be the last section I quilt as a result.
Mel Meister says
I have it all out, but there’s no time for the next couple of days to start it.
Norma V says
i’ve spent the last two hours looking for the fat quarter bundle i was saving to use for this quilt…i think i am going to like the fabrics i am now going to use and maybe when i find that bundle they will go with it…i really shouldn’t start eating an elephant, but i guess if i take little bitty bites it won’t hurt….