Route 66 Quilt

 The Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, MO was on Saturday.  Of course I had to take some pictures of my quilt there!

 Here is a closeup of my quilting.  This was my first time to put cornerstones on a quilt.  I circled my FMQ in the corners.  The border I put sporadic cobblestones, kind of using a feather technique.  I was going to do cobblestones until I decided it was too much work.  On the inner border I quilted straight lines to resemble a road.

 Sorry about the sideways pictures.  I quilted in the ditch on all of the squares.  In the big squares, some of them I quilted the Route 66 emblem with a 66 in the middle.

 Sorry this one is upside down.  The dark squares I just wrote Route 66 since I could not see the blue lines I traced for the emblem and I was too lazy to look for my white pencil.  :)  Just keeping it real!

 Sorry all of these are upside down, I could not figure out how to rotate the pictures on my new phone, although I have since figured it out!  My husband likes to buy patches when we are traveling Route 66.  Since he did not have any plans for them, I sewed them on little squares that did not have any Route 66 fabric.

 These are all of the patches he has so far.  I'm sure I'll be adding more!

 I thought the quilt needed a little extra, so I appliqued a Route 66 across the top.  Since red is my husband's favorite color and I did not have any Route 66 red fabric, this is the only way I could add red to the quilt.

 You can see more pictures of the quilt here:  http://missyscakesandaprons.blogspot.com/2016/08/pets-on-quilt-show.html

I did all of the piecing of this quilt on either a hand crank or treadle, and all of the Free motion quilting was done on my Singer 16 industrial treadle which is over 120 years old.
I was supposed to finish the quilt last year for our 20th anniversary but I was having problems with the tension so I got mad with it and put it up.  It was suggested to change the thread in the bobbin, but I didn't want to.  Well, guess what?  When I pulled it back out, I changed the thread in the bobbin and did not have any more problems.  Lesson learned.

I am so glad to have finally finished this quilt just in time for our anniversary!

Missy

Progress

I picked up an UFO from last year.  I was having problems with my tension and got mad at the quilt and put it up.  For a whole year!  School started and I did not have any time to sew.

I had to trace the Route 66 shield onto the 8 inch blocks for quilting.

 My husband has been picking up patches from Route 66, I decided to sew them onto his quilt.  The only ones that state actual places along Route 66 is the one from Cuba, MO (we went there last weekend for our anniversary) and the one from Springfield, MO (we live an hour from there). 
Oreo was helping me sew the patches on and making a mess of my thread.  Silly cat.

 The cats like to sleep in my rocking chair in my sewing room while I am in there sewing.

 The binding is on, I just need to finish the patches and quilting the big blocks.  I should be done by this weekend since I have already quilted in the ditch around all blocks and quilted the border.  I am quilting it on my Singer 16 industrial treadle.

Wish me luck!
Missy