Patriotic 4th of July Quilt

I am building my collection of themed quilts. I got the idea of this quilt on Pinterest, although I did lay out the squares in a different pattern.

I bought the fabric from JoAnn's. They had a nice selection of patriotic fabrics.

Putting the blocks together was very simple. I sewed strips together and cut into the size of squares I needed.

I tried laying out the blocks in different patterns and liked the way it looked with the chevron.

Again, this was a very easy pattern to put together.

Here's the finished quilt top ready to take to the quilter.

I had my machine quilter make a firework pattern with a variegated red,white and blue thread on the back. The backing is a white star on white, so the quilting shows up prettily with the simple fabric. Below are the details.

So happy that this quilt is done and I'm excited to display it come July.

Movie Tickets

I've been saving movie ticket stubs for years and I've been trying to think of how I'd like to display them for some time. I finally decided to search Pinterest for ideas and immediately liked what I found. It was going to be a lot quicker than the other project I'd been trying to formulate in my mind.

 

I bought a shadow box and 3-D stickers. I situated the stickers and tickets how I wanted for the background. Then I picked a few of the more memorable and colorful tickets to put in the front, and the rest are sandwiched in between. I'm happy about how it turned out!