Project Quilting 16.5: Follow Your Arrow

 

I love Project Quilting and look forward to it all year! Thank you to Kim Lapacek and her friend Trish Frankland for hosting this great challenge every winter. You can read more about the rules and prompts here on Kim's blog Persimon Dreams.

This week's prompt is "Follow Your Arrow" and the interpretation of it is up to the creator!

The always-popular Flying Geese block can be seen as an arrow or pointing in a particular direction. 

I pulled out my scrap baskets and stitched up 8 Flying Geese blocks measuring 4" x 2" each. 

These were sewn together in one long row. 

I chose to make another Pocket Pod Basket from the SewCanShe blog. It is a super easy tutorial and it's free! Caroline Fairbanks writes such great patterns, and she has a ton of them on her blog. 

 

I sewed the strip of "arrows" to my purple fabrics, added fusible Pellon 308 for stability, and also chose a purple lining. I used the given template to get them cut out. 

Here are the 2 pieces sewn together and are ready to be stacked inside one another for the next step. 

Closing in on the stitching around the top.

Birthing is always the hardest part, isn't it?

Only one thing is harder and that's raising those teenagers! (Now we'll see who's reading.😜😜😜)

Stuffed with more jams and jellies for my closet. 

Lined up with last week's ruby pocket pod basket! They look really good together!

I'm so glad I followed my arrow to use these Flying Geese blocks to make more storage. 

I love making practical things! 

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Project Quilting 16.5: Follow Your Arrow