The Liberty Flag Quilt 🇺🇸

I made this Liberty Flag Quilt for my very own vet ... my husband, Don, who served in Viet Nam.  I made it for his birthday, but gave it to him on the Fourth of July.

The pattern for this quilt is from Running Doe Quilts.  I purchased it and the fabric, backing fabric and binding fabric from Keepsake Quilting.  The quilt measures 45 X 70.

I made a star template out of plastic and drew stars onto all the squares and quilted around them using a straight quilting ruler. You can only see them in the above picture in the small white squares, but they are also in all the blue squares. 

 

For the stripes I used an Amanda Murphy Good Measure quilting ruler called Every Wave in 1 1/2".  I wanted the flag to appear to have the movement of waving in the breeze.  

On the longarm I used a 90/14 Jeans needle and Glide 40 weight thread in Linen,Tomato, Cobalt, Sky and Baby Blue on the bottom.

I used Quilter's Dream batting in White Poly so that the white fabrics would pop.

If you use a regular batting, which is sort of a brownish cream color it can make white fabric look dirty. 

I had no difficulties quilting this.  I really enjoy my BERNINA Q24 Longarm.

Back in the Viet Nam era no one welcomed our boys home or thanked them for their service.  I want to thank my husband for his service to our country and welcome him home! Love you, Don!