Project Quilting Bonus Challenge

My Project Quilting Bonus Challenge is complete!  Wohoo, done with time to spare! It was also my May finish for A Lovely Year of Finishes.   The bonus challenge, Tradition Times Three, was started with a special bundle from Fat Quarter Shop.  I used 10 of the 12 fabrics, omitting the two beige fabrics, and added one white fabric which was the same as one of the blues in the bundle (the white is part of the Seascapes line by Moda)

As my traditional block I chose flying geese.  After looking through many books I kept going back to a flying geese quilt in the Better Homes and Gardens book, Quilting: Pieces of the Past.  Loving the look of the geese, I used this as my jumping off point.  

I chose to use the fabric in the bundle as my geese and use the one fabric that I added as the background.  I feel this made the geese really stand out.  

There are 6 sizes of geese in the quilt.  Some are paper pieced, some are pieced using the quick geese method and the few lonely ones are pieced with scrap triangles.  I quilted the quilt with a wave pattern on my little Simplicity American Denim machine using Coats and Clark cotton machine quilting thread.

The geese go all different directions in the quilt which reminded me of seagulls because a recent study showed that seagulls have no set direction in their flight patterns.  A trip to the boat seemed to be the perfect place to photograph the quilt, though it was so very windy out that it was hard to control.

I backed the quilt with Sketch Cherry Screen Texture by Timeless Treasures which was also in the bundle.  I added in some flying geese pinwheels for fun, too.  

Quilt Stats:

Flight of the Seagulls

54" x 75"

Pieced by me on my Brother machine and quilted by me on my Simplicity machine with Coats and Clark machine quilting thread.  The batting is Pellon Nature's Touch cotton batting.   

Made in my home in Lanoka Harbor, NJ.