Thursday, May 15, 2014

Mississippi License Plate – Go Mississippi II

This is my 2nd Mississippi license plate quilt.


Remember how I said I want to simplify, yes, simply the first one?
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The biggest noticeable difference is two pine trees instead of four.
And this time I used the American Made Brand cotton fabric.

The AMB blog tour will start Monday, May 19. I hope you will follow along and visit two states a day. My day will be May 30 along with Indiana. You will have to wait until then to see my “real” Mississippi tag block for AMB. You can see the schedule HERE.
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But for now, here is how I made

Go Mississippi II.
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I paper pieced the pines.
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I added the blank center fabric and …
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… and the strips of water at the bottom.
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I resized and printed out the “Mississippi” logo and then traced around the letters onto the fabric with a textile marker. (And yes, I’m left handed.)
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For the magnolia flower, I drew, cut out, and fused the petals and leaves together …
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… and ironed them to the background.
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Then I outlined the flower with a permanent craft pen.
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Next I layered the top, batting, and back and began quilting. I left the background behind the letters unquilted because I was undecided how to make it look good.
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After working with a sample, I decided to quilt right through the letters and then use my textile marker to blacken the thread over the letters.
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Now it’s all finished!

Go Mississippi II – $60


Detail
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Dimensions: 12 1/4” X 6 1/4”
Material: AMB cotton solids, King Tut cotton, Rainbows, and other thread, unknown batting and backing
Finished with “Fast Finished Triangles” and is ready for hanging.

The back
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And you have until 5:00 p.m. PST, May 16, 2014 to enter my fabric giveaway HERE.


 Creations by Nina-Marie 

  May Finishes

8 comments:

Martha Ginn said...

These are really great, Julia! Nice work representing Mississippi! Be sure to post a reminder on the MQA list about the license plate project, especially that yours will be featured on May 30.

Nina Marie said...

ohhh its nice to see your process - I'm such a "paper planner" too! This one is great!

Emily H said...

I really like the wavy water. Good change.

Anonymous said...

Both are beautiful! Nice tutorial on your process, too.

Corrie said...

Julia, it looks great. I like how you did the wording. Nice job!

RenaissanceSandi said...

I love your idea of using a textile marker for the print...silly me, I did handwork for mine:) You can see my first (rough draft) Nebraska block on my blog: renaissancesandi.blogspot.com

Sarah Craig said...

Love your block, Julia! And I'm so glad you used the textile marker - so did I, because I am not a big appliqué person!

SIMPLESEW said...

I am hopping over from Such a Sew and Sew. wow, so detailed... I am having a giveaway too.

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