For the first Quilting Challenge for season 9 the theme is Hometown Proud. Well, anybody who has ever lived in the Buffalo New York area absolutely loves it. They may not love the winters here, but the people are fabulous. We come together and help out our neighbors, support our teams even when they are losing, we support community projects, and we are just nice people. So my quilt was the Buffalo symbol of BuffaLove.
I first started out making a river sunset since I live in the City of Tonawanda along the Niagara River. We are almost smack dab between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. After work in the winter time the sun is just setting as I’m driving home to the west. The sunsets on the river are phenomenal and I wanted to reflect that in my quilt. I ended up putting on a cruise ship so now it’s not so Hometown since a cruise ship would not go on our river.
I thought I was stuck with nothing until I saw the progress of a Philadelphia theme quilt with the LOVE on it then t thought of the Buffalo with the heart on it. This picture above is of my grandson giving a hug to my neighbors statue in her yard. And I knew I could work it into my project.
Figured I could use both sides and make a tote bag for cruise shopping. Mostly I used strips of different colors, sewed them up in a sunset pattern for one side and random for the other side. After I stitched them together I trimmed them to size and added a piece of interfacing, cotton batting, and a piece of fabric for the inside. I appliquéd the cruise ship and the Buffalo onto the two sides and quilted each side. Then I put on some bias binding along the to edges and added straps.
I stitched both sides together and stitched an overlock stitch on the edge to finish it off. All done
Until I craft again
Coleen
