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Friday, March 11, 2016

Star Spangled Liberty ~ My New BOM!!!

Star Spangled Liberty ~ Applique Version ~ BOM program by Pam Buda for Marcus Fabrics
I'm so, so jazzed to finally be able to tell you all about this wonderful new Block of the Month program I've been working on for Marcus Fabrics, called...

Star Spangled Liberty!

I've had just the best time designing the quilt and all the fabrics for my second BOM program.   With all the excitement going on in our nation right now with the upcoming election (good, bad and the crazy!), we're all in tune to setting our country on a new course, showing our red, white and blue pride everywhere.  So, doing what quilters always do during a time like this, we turn to needle and thread to express our feelings.  

There are actually two versions of Star Spangled Liberty....the first one above has an AMERICA applique in the middle of the center row.  This is not a panel.  You will use your favorite method of applique to create this portion of the quilt.  OR.....

Star Spangled Liberty ~ All Pieced version BOM program by Pam Buda for Marcus Fabrics
For those of you for whom applique is a four-letter word, I created an all pieced version of the quilt.  When you sign up for the program, you'll simply choose which version you'd like to make!  Easy, breezy!  Both quilts measure approximately 74 1/2" x 78"

As designers of fabric, quilts and other fun to sew projects, we work months and sometimes more than a year in advance of when you actually get to see what we've been working on.  This quilt was one of those that I've been working on for almost two years.  I designed the quilt with the row concept long before the row by row programs that are running now became popular, so I'm delighted that they've been well received.  

When I was thinking about creating the quilt, I knew I wanted a new and completely different quilter's flag, and I am very jazzed about the flag in this quilt.  I turned it vertically to offset all the rows of stars, which was the second element I really wanted in the quilt.  We all love stars, don't we, and so I wanted lots and lots of star blocks.  

The center row really gave me a place to have fun with creating other patriotic blocks, and there I wanted to create blocks you might find at a Fourth of July parade.  The flag star blocks and patriotic pinwheels fit the bill perfectly, and we see God Bless America banners on parade floats, too. 

This will be a 9 month BOM program, available only through participating quilt shops, so please be sure to ask your favorite quilt shop owner to offer the program.  If you don't ask, they don't know you're interested!  

You'll begin to see a poster in quilt shops offering the program very soon, and the program actually begins in September, 2016.  It was timed this way so you will be completing your quilt in May of 2017, just in time for Memorial day, July 4th, and to display all summer long!!  

I can't resist the opportunity to include some history in my BOM programs, so you can look forward to reading about Betsy Ross, who played an epic role in the birth of our nation.  It truly warms my heart knowing how fabric, needle and thread in the hands of a skilled needlewoman such as Betsy, had such a profound and lasting impact on our nation, and the world.  In every century since her first colonial flag was completed, "Old Glory" is recognized everywhere, by everyone!  

I will also have fun Old Glory flag facts (a nod to Sheldon Cooper!),  The Star Spangled Banner, and Pledge of Allegiance.  Oh, and there will be a bonus project, too.

To say my patriotic fabrics revved my design engine into overdrive would be a gross understatement!!  You can look forward to a brand new trio of Tokens of the Past quilts in a new pattern called Union Forever,  once again made from the Star Spangled Liberty 10 inch precut pack.  

AND....a new patriotic Pocket Patchwork Sew-Along in the near future.  

Next thing for you to do is to click here to check out all of the delicious fabrics I designed for the Star Spangled Liberty collection.  Oh, and while you're browsing the Marcus Fabrics website, do browse around the many other new fabric collections coming to your local quilt shop very soon.  We have been hard at work to bring you new fabrics for your next quilt, or just to keep your stash happy!  

I invite you to keep visiting my blog for more news about my Star Spangled Liberty fabrics, and BOM program.  Now that it has all been introduced, I can begin to post pictures of everything.  Presently, I am piecing the quilts, so watch my Instagram and Facebook pages for sneak peeks of the quilt construction.  

Like Betsy, I hope you find some time to feed your soul with the stitches you sew.  

Thanks so much for reading my blog.  I'd be awful lonely without you!

15 comments:

  1. Wow--you knocked this one out of the park, Pam! An incredible design!
    Oh, I love this fabric collection, too! (drool)

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  2. Would you have a list of participating quilt shops that would offer this online. There are no shops around me that offer your quilt patterns or fabrics.

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  3. This is one beautiful quilt--am I love quilts with a patriotic theme. Beautiful fabrics

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  4. Love this!!! Sure hope there are some on line shops that will be participating! :)

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  5. Wowzer! It's beautiful--I love it! The all pieced version is my favorite. The fabrics are wonderful, also. I'll be watching for it on line!

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  6. Congratulations on your new BOM, Pam!!! WOW, what a gorgeous quilt! Love, love, love both your row design and all the fabrics. Your flag block is just perfect. :-) Big hugs from Karla

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  7. What an awesome quilt! You just keep surprising us with these fantastic quilts - each one better than the last. Seems like a book should be sometime in the future to join all these great designs.

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  8. Can you tell me which quilt shops in the Chicago area will carry this BOM? I want to do this. Thanks

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  9. OOoooohhhh! Such a pretty quilt! I'm looking at this and thinking parades, fireworks and sparklers!!! I'll definitely be looking to sign up for this one1 :-)

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  10. I LOVE IT! Now I hope one of my local shops will be joining in! Laura V.

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  11. A very beautiful quilt, but I'm Canadian!! Will have to pass on this BOM
    I really enjoyed doing your last one!!

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  12. Your fabrics are beautiful. This just may be my 1st bom. Jan

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  13. IS PATTERN NOW AVAILABLE. AS THIS WAS A BLOCK OF THE MONTH 2011? I HAVE NEVER JOINED A B.O.M AS I FOUND IT TOO COSTLY FOR MY BUDGET. I WILL TAKE THAT BACK I JOINED ONE ABOUT 8 OR SO YEARS AGO, WHERE YOU PAID FOR THE FIRST MONTH AN THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL AND IF YOU RETURNED THE FINISHED BLOCK, THEN YOU RECEIVED THE NEXT PKG W/INSTRUC. & FABRIC ,ETC. IF YOU DIDN'T FINISH YOU HAD TO PAY 10.00 FOR NEXT KIT. IT KEPT ME ON MY TOES, MY HUBBY TOO AS EVERY TRIP DURING WINTER MONTHS,QUILT B.O.M. DAY IT WAS FREEZING RAIN, SLEET OR SNOW AND ICY,APPROX. 80 MILES ROUND TRIP, SO HE DROVE ME. NOW I DO IT ALL ON LINE, DON'T DRIVE DUE TO POOR HEALTH. LOVE MY B.O.M. QUILT!!

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  14. Hi Pam,

    I love the new fabrics and will be purchasing them asap.

    But... as an overseas cousin, with a flag that enjoys the same colours as the Stars and Stripes it would be wonderful if you could create a centre for the quilt depicting a Union Jack or a representation of it... nothing fancy, just something so we too can be patriotic.

    I watch how all my American friends are so patriotic and make wonderful quilts to celebrate your wonderful country and I always feel a little sad that here in the UK we don't seem to do this as much and I think we should.

    Now, if you can't bring yourself to do just a Union Jack centre, how about a joint USA and UK panel to celebrate out special friendship.

    Regards

    Caroline

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