Welcome to Missouri!
I am so excited to share about this quilt block! I partnered with Denniele of Louanna Mary Quilt Design to design a complimentary Missouri quilt block pattern for the Around the Block - US Tour! This is part of a larger project with dozens of other pattern designers. Each week, a new FREE block pattern is released representing another one of the 50 US states. If you quilt along, you'll be able to make a quilt representing all 50 states!
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If you're new here, hello! I'm Laura! I design quilt patterns, and I'm a self-proclaimed deal hunter! Be sure to join the popular Quilting & Sewing Deals Facebook group where I post sales, deals, and coupon codes from all around the web!
My husband and I moved to Missouri seven years ago. We both grew up in Kansas, then moved to Las Vegas for jobs after getting married, then decided to move back to the Midwest to start our family. We picked where to live by taking a paper map and drawing circles and x's on it to begin narrowing down our choices. We landed in Missouri, and it's home!
When signing up for the Around the Block - US Tour, Denniele of Louanna Mary Quilt Design also wanted to design a block for Missouri. We chatted with each other and decided the Midwest way to work it out was to work together!
I have loved getting to know Denniele and working with her to bring you this Missouri block! We each designed half of the 6 1/2" block (6" finished), so when put together, it creates the whole block! Denniele designed the "Missouri by Day" half, and I designed the "Missouri by Night" half.
Enter your email address in the form below, and the Missouri by Night pattern will be automatically emailed to you! (Please do not use autofill to type your email.)
**To get the Missouri by Day pattern, visit Denniel HERE: https://www.facebook.com/louannamaryquiltdesign
You must have BOTH patterns in order to complete the Missouri block.
AND Denniele has some laser-cut kits with all the fabric and applique pieces precut in her online shop!! Quantities are limited, so be sure to hop over there if you want a kit!
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| The kit and precut pieces! Photo credit: Denniele of Louanna Mary Quilt Design |
The Missouri block combines both traditional piecing and raw-edge applique.
I scoured my stash for fabrics to use - and even got a bit creative! One of my arch pieces was fussy cut from the background of this snowy scene fabric, and the headlight piece was cut from a lemon!
I used 50wt Aurifil for all of the piecing and applique (in coordinated colors of course!). I used Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 for my applique pieces. I love how it's tacky so you can position - and reposition the pieces and they won't fall off when you move it to the ironing board.
When choosing fabrics for the night side, I picked an almost black fabric (mine has cross-hatching on it) for the skyline. I then chose a dark gray for the side of the arch, and a medium gray for the main arch piece. The sky got a dark blue fabric (mine has little dots that kind of look like stars!), and the river is a dark blue piece with some horizontal lines. Fabric choice is a great way to be creative!
For the Missouri by Day side (get the pattern for that side HERE), I picked a light aqua fabric for the sky (mine has tiny lightning bolts!) and a gray for the road. I actually had a fabric of cars and trucks with a printed road background. It worked perfectly for this! The other pieces were from near solid fabrics, except the light gray arch and headlight I shared above.
If you want to add embellishments to your block, you could use white embroidery floss to stitch some French knots into the night sky for stars!
A peek at the back shows off all my thread colors!
Remember to get BOTH halves of the block!
Missouri by Night - Get the pattern by entering your email address into the box towards the top of this post.
If you'd like to follow along on the 50 States Tour, be sure to follow the website HERE. You can sign up to get an email as each new block pattern is released!
Here are the states that have been released so far:
Missouri - Denniele at Louanna Mary Quilt Design
AND Laura at Slice of Pi Quilts <--- That's me!
Coming up after Missouri:
...and many more!
Let's quilt along!
Love the block we created! However, I am jealous of your perfect road fabric! LOL We did settle it the Midwest way! :)
ReplyDeleteOh, this is so fun! I love in St. Louis and see this landmark quite often!
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Having spent 26 years living in the Bootheel of MO (3 hours south of St. Louis), this block is very special. THANKS!
ReplyDeleteLOL, I keep signing up for the newsletter for free patterns, but I already get it, so I hope your software deletes duplicates! This is a great block, and what a super way to design it!
ReplyDeleteClever block, Laura and Denniele!
ReplyDeleteI was able to ascend to the top of the Arch last summer at age 80! Such an exciting adventure...so this block is really going to be a special one for me! Thanks!
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