Finished Or Not Friday, and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?

I finished making 8 red, white and blue stars for CiL's July - August block drive. If you want to know more about that, check out Kat's blog here. 

At the beginning of the year, I committed to make at least 6 blocks for every drive in 2018. No pressure, just a commitment to myself! January-February was string blocks, no color specified, just strings.  It was really fun, I stopped at 12!  See my blocks in this post.

March and April the block drive was for Hunter's Star blocks in blue, one solid, one print.I decided 6 was an odd number for Hunters Star, so I made 8.  My finished blocks are posted here. 

For May-June, Kat took a little break and requested that we support the block drive at Purple Poppy Quilts. You can read my post here.

And that brings us to July-August, "Oh My Stars" . These are the 8 blocks completed. I used a pattern from Quilt in a Day, called Scrappy Stars by Sue Bouchard. but deviated from the scrappy 16 patch centers on a couple. A  6.5" square of some special Lady Liberty fabric brought to me from NYC by a friend, a large 4 patch with blue star points instead of red, a scrappy set of 4 4-patches and one that was just blue and white alternating squares.  I will get these finished blocks off in the mail to Kat, early next week. I actually put them in the mail, yesterday!  Hooray!

 It looks like a smudge on this one, but it's a reflection of the overhead lights. This is a glass top table. And it looks here, like the background in yellow......it is not!  More reflection I guess!

 Just 4 patches instead of 16.

 This one is different. 4 4 patches, technically not a  scrappy16 patch.

 For this one, I wanted to use all squares of the same deep blue, but my scrap did not go far enough. So I substituted 2 blue dotted squares in the center. 


I also finished putting the binding on the birthday quilt for our son. Now it needs a label and it will be ready to be delivered in person at the end of September. Our son turns 50 on September 30th. All my other kids (daughter, granddaughters, great grands, and even his ex-wife) already have quilts. So this one is special, it's a FINALLY!  It's a secret though. None of my family knows I have a blog, so I should be safe.

Pattern:  Intertwined by Cheryl Brickey from the book, Modern Plus Sign Quilts.

Fabric: B &W: Plus Signs = Tag by Cheryl Arkison from Connecting Threads

Green : Latifah Saarif's Graphics collection = Brick Wall

Border: White Out by Robert Kauffman

Backing: Cheers by Robert Kauffman

Binding: from my stash: Vintage Wheels, I have no idea who the designer is. 

Quilting:  Retro Graphics 2 done by my friend Marva Mooney on her long arm. 

This is a slightly better view of the quilting and the binding!

We took pictures at a local park. The fabric is right side up on the back, those beer bottles and glasses are not laying sideways!  Silly Mr Busy decided he should do a "Wilson" impression from Tool Time. Do any of you remember that TV show? He's 6'3" and had to stand on tiptoes to look over the sign we were using as a prop!

So there you have it!  Finally some finishes!

 I'll be linking to Busy Hands Quilts, Finished or Not Fridays
and Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?

Stay Busy and Stay Happy

ps: if any of the text about shows up as RED, I apologize. I tried to correct it 4 times and each time I come back to read and edit again, the sentences are red!  Don't know????