It's time again to show off your new stuff! Any new
project you started during the month of July. There
are no expectations here at the NewFO Challenge...no finishes required,
no rules, no nothing. Just start something new, and you're in!
I decided to devote the month of July to catching up on my Texas Treasures BOM. I think I had 4 blocks complete at the beginning of the month. I was 5 blocks behind. This is a 17 month project with the last month being the finish kit. When I picked up the block for June, They had two ready, so I picked them both up. They did that in July, too, so I was now 9 behind by mid July. Each kit has a placement sheet/Applique pattern, directions and details, and a history of the Texas Treasure featured.
Block 1 Wildflowers in a Ball Jar
Block 2 Wind turbines and cotton
Block 3 Monarch Butterfly and quilt title
Block 4 Wild flowers in a bean pot
Block 5 Guitar and State song, Texas Our Texas
Block 6 Lone Star
Block 7 Mockingbird, Pecans and Crape Myrtle
Chinese Crape Myrtle
Pecans and Mocking Bird
Block 7 Cowboy, Longhorn and Petrified wood
Cowboy
Longhorn, Sideoats, Petrified Palmwood
Block 9 Prickly Pear and Horned lizard
Better known as a Horny Toad
Prickly Pear Cactus
Block 10 Oil Derick and Pump Jacks
Gushing oil
Pump Jacks
Block 11 Alamo, Sopaipilla, Jalapenos, Sweet onion, Chiltepin pepper and a bowl of Chili
Sweet onion and Chiltepin pepper
Sopaipilla, Jalapenos and a bowl of Chili
Alamo
Block 12 Lone Star cut Blue Topaz. There will be a Guadalupe Bass quilted in the red.
Te facets were paper pieced and then appliqued on.
Block 13 Wild flowers in a Campfire coffee pot.
Day Flower
Poppy
Bullnettle, Primrose and Yellow rose.
There are wild flowers in each corner of the quilt and there is a yellow rose in each group. The true Yellow Rose of Texas is a yellow Prickly Pear bloom. Only three blocks to go!
Not only did I do all of these blocks. I made a mug rug.
I got this cute little guy while visiting Quilt shops in the Row by Row Experience. There are 105 quilt shops in Texas participating and I determined that 41 were with in a days driving. Not all one day, but many one day trips. Two friends and I started off in this venture on Tuedays and Fridays when one friend had off. At the end of July, we had made 33 shops and I had made one in far west Texas in El Paso.
This is the region we shopped in.
This is a perspective the state.
We did 4 shops on August 1 and will finish up the last three on Tuesday the 5th.
