From Sea to Shining Sea!

June 29, 2016
USA Quilt

USA QuiltGood Morning, Quilters!

My daughters have been fighting over who gets the USA quilt – my 2014 Fourth of July Quilt.

To avoid family strife, I decided to make a second one…

So much better than “cutting the baby in half”!

Free motion quilting, flag and USA Map

MACHINE QUILTING THE USA QUILT

This is a quick and easy quilt–you can have it finished in one afternoon!

Start with a fat quarter quilt sandwich-this piece was 21 x 16 inches–anything close will work.

Draw  a one inch border (leaving a good margin for trimming and binding)

Stitch the outer border using The Easy Greek Key machine quilting motif.

Add the silhouette of the USA (or YOUR country’s outline)

Double stitch around the outline.

Add horizontal lines-one inch spacing.

Stitch with a wavy line and add stars.

Perfect!

Beautiful spacious skies!!!
USA Quilt

CRAFTSY:  DOODLE TO DESIGN

If you purchased my second class, Doodle to Design: Creative Machine Quilting–the USA silhouette is provided in the class materials!

Take advantage of the 50% off link HERE

The class has received all 5 star reviews like this one from Quilt4Fun:–

Craftsy Review of Lori Kennedy

(Thank you to Quilt4Fun and all of YOU who have taken the time to write a review–it can really make a difference!)

USA Quilt

You’ll have this stitched so fast…

You might just want to make two right away!

….and crown thy good………

Lori

PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.  For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com.  Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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6 comments

  • Love this one, looks easy to do too, can’t beat that.

  • I did one with New Zealand and our flag, children love it!

  • Janet

    You are most welcome Miss Lori 😀 I love to read your posts and the videos! I do hope this second quilt solves the problem…but it does make me wonder…don’t your daughters share your love of quilting and quilt themselves? They have access to a most fabulous teacher 😉 My daughter didn’t have much interest in quilting…so sad for her 🙁
    quilt 4 fun 2 at hot mail dot com

  • I’ve traced the outline of Canada… Looks like stipple! Our holiday is July 1, so I’d better get cracking… Or stitching!

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      Send us a photo! O Canada!!!

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