Modern Amish Finish

For the last several weeks I've been machine quilting flimsies with my sewing machine. My quilting isn't very advanced but it gets the job done. The next several posts will be about finished quilts.

The first flimsy to be quilted is Modern Amish made in conjunction with RSC except I was impatient and sewed ahead.

I stitched in the ditch vertically and horizontally around the blocks then quilted diagonally both directions through the background fabrics using Glide gray thread. I thought about using black but that seemed too dark. Maybe the gray is too light but it's what I had on hand.

It's interesting how my shopping habits have changed, a year ago I would have driven to the fabric store and purchased a darker gray thread. Now I just use what's in the thread box.

A dark gray floral was used for backing fabric. White thread was in the bobbin so the quilting shows on the backing fabric.

The original pattern, called Sound Check, comes from McCalls Quilting, March/April 2014 magazine and was designed by John Kubiniec. 

After washing, my finish measures  58" by 81". This is the largest quilt I've quilted with my sewing machine.

Becky from Quilted Twins always displays a quilt roll so here is my quilt roll.

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June RSC, Modern Amish

The RSC color for June is pink but I sewed pink blocks for Modern Amish in May so for June I pieced red blocks.

I've said before I'm not good at BOM's, I get impatient and want to get the quilt into the flimsy stage, so I did!

I love it!  He measures 60" by 85" at this point. 

I had 4 background fabrics, light gray, medium gray, dark gray and black. I pieced more blocks than I needed. All of the blocks with the darker background fabric were used but not the blocks with the light gray background, they just made the quilt too light.

The original pattern, called Sound Check, comes from McCalls Quilting, March/April 2014 magazine and was designed by John Kubiniec. 

I know the skill level says beginner, but sometimes it's fun to do an easy quilt! I've been wanting to make this quilt every since I saw the pattern 6 years ago. It's time has come in 2020.

I took these pictures with the early morning light, before the sun was up. It's so nice to see bright sunlight again. Last winter lasted way too long.

Since it was early in the morning, I disturbed the bull in the pasture to the south of the house.

He had to do his bellow, paw the ground and make the dust fly, then he posed nicely for a side shot.

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RSC Pink

The RSC color for May was dark greens but I sewed all the greens for Modern Amish earlier this year when the color was light/bright greens.

So instead of dark green, I pulled fuchsia fabrics and sewed blocks. I had taken a picture earlier in May to show you but it disappeared into the abyss somewhere never to be found. 

Since pink is the color for June, I'm ahead for once! Here is the 2nd photo of my fuchsia blocks for Modern Amish.

There is one more color I want to use in this quilt, I think I'll go ahead and sew them in June. I'm ready to get this quilt into the flimsy stage. I'm really bad at BOM's, I get tired of dragging the project out, I want to get it finished now!

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RSC Blues

I sewed 12 blue RSC blocks this week but I used all shades of blues, not just the lights.

I'm calling my project Modern Amish even though the original name is Sound Check. 

There are 4 shades of grays for background fabric.

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RSC Teal

It feels so good to be sewing again. I don't think I've gone 10 days without sewing in years!

Here are the teal Modern Amish blocks I'm piecing for the

RSC. I didn't sew any of the blocks for February, I'm not going to add orange or yellow to this quilt.

The middle teal is a green teal, the top and bottom blocks are blue/teal and they NOT the same fabric.

It's interesting to see how the different shades of background gray makes the colored fabric look different. I've set the same colored fabric blocks next to each other.

Because I'm an impatient person and because this is going to be a Christmas present and because I want this quilt finished, I went ahead and sewed the purple blocks.

The middle purple is a mulberry shade, the top and bottom purples are different shades of purple even though they look the same in the picture.

The original name of this pattern is Sound Check but I've renamed it Modern Amish. The pattern comes from McCalls Quilting magazine, March/April 2014 issue and was designed by John Kubiniec. I've done some revising and only need 36 blocks for my quilt. Original post from January. The blocks will finish 10" by 12".

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Sound Check

In 2019 I started piecing Ohio star blocks for the RSC. I managed to keep up for 3 months then fell by the wayside. I'm going to start again but the color for the month of January is green, lime green. Even though the green Ohio stars I pieced last year aren't lime green, they're green, so I'm not going to make more.

I've decided to start a 2nd RSC project called Sound Check. The pattern comes from McCalls Quilting, March/April 2014 magazine and was designed by John Kubiniec. 

I know the skill level says beginner, but sometimes it's fun to do an easy quilt! I've been wanting to make this quilt every since I saw the pattern 6 years ago. It's time has come in 2020.

The idea is you make 4 different blocks using the same solid color fabric. Each of the 4 blocks use a different gray or black.

This is the lime green I've pulled, the grays and black are left over from the small flying geese quilt I made last year. I needed to get more gray fabrics.

Several years ago I purchased a fat quarter bundle of solid Kona's from Yoder Department Store in Shipshewana. The bundle contained 40 fabrics. (Yoder's actually have just about every color Kona makes.) 

A fat quarter makes 2 blocks and I've pulled 4 greens for these blocks including the lime green.

I need a total of 49 blocks. I'll keep up with the RSC colors each month but I'm not sure I won't get impatient and just piece the rest of the blocks.

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