Today I am able to show you the quilt I have been working on!
I finally gifted it to my SIL last night. His birthday was in June but we postponed the celebration for 1) they were in the process of buying a house and 2) I wasn't finished with the quilt.
I made the quilt to honor his heritage. Jose was born in Costa Rica and all his family still live there. Jose came to the US to get his master's degree. I wanted to make a quilt that included things that reminded him of his home country. After much research, these are the blocks I decided on using.
I put this together using several different resources. The narrow sashing is made with Kona Prussian as are the words Costa Rica and the binding.
All the blocks are paper pieced.
The backing is one piece of a coordinating color I found at JoAnn's. The borders are also from JoAnn's.
I raw edge appliqued the heart and Costa Rica in the heading border. I used a free heart clip art for the heart and a font (don't remember which font) on my computer that I enlarged.
I straight lined quilted in the borders.
In most of the blocks' background, I FMQ a stipple and did a
simple enhancement of the shapes of the figures.
The capuchin monkey pattern was purchased from On William Street, the sloth was purchased through Etsy @CreoNodo, and the tree frogs were purchased from Silver Linings Originals.
The waterfall, the palm tree and the volcano were draw and pieced by me, the bird of paradise is from Kohatu Patterns, and the quetzal is from eQuilt Patterns.
❤️ Costa Rica finishes at 56" x 60.5"
This quilt was labor intensive...a labor of love. I have to say that I'm glad that it is with my SIL so that I can move onto other projects.
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