Here is the first project that I have done in the ‘American Nostalgia” set.

I took the answers from the survey and looked for the most repeated answer to make a first piece out of, so it could go out in the promotional material.  The answers were so varied that the answer that was repeated the most was only 3.5% of the total answers.
“Pie”

To be fair apple pie was only 5 answers, and the rest were different iterations of pie including “American Pie” the song.  To make the first piece with the greatest cross section of answers, I choose pie.
i decided to make the quilt from scratch.

I made the pie with the recipe that I have been working with for a few years.

My housemate was quite happy that I choose pie for the first project.

I started to sew the pie for the top of the quilt.

               

I finished the pie topper before I started to sew the flag that I was going to put it on.

 

I pieced and sewed the pie together first so I didn’t have to contend with the entire quilt to applique on the minutia of the pie.

I made the quilt next. I thought it was appropriate to make the flag out of table cloth material to respond to the pie as well as a bit of the American condition.

Because of the size of the project I had to quilt it in the garage on my hands and knees. that is a working shot of quilting the piece together.

 

 Then it was time to put it all together.

 

And finally the finished piece:

 

here are a few detail shots to see some of the areas and how it is put together.

 

 

let me know what you think.

This project will appear in the promotional materials for the show.

 

 

 

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