Fun Free Piecing

Our guild is having a February challenge to make a quilt that reminds you of the first line of a song. I've been thinking of doing something on and off since last spring when the challenge was announced, but kept having different ideas and never starting anything. My dh suggested a song and he was urging me to give it a try, and the other night I got inspired to try. Here are pictures of my "young girls", "young men" and "soldiers" ... any idea what the song is?




I need some flowers and gravestones. Any idea yet? It's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone", and I really had fun with the girls, men and soldiers. The tiny American flag fabric I found for the soldier background is perfect and I think helps tell that those guys are supposed to be soldiers. It will be a wall-hanging size, and I should be able to get it done in time now that I've got a good start.

I saw the great free form star tutorial on Belinda's blog and thought I'd post a picture of some free form stars I made a while ago. Mine are a bit bigger than hers, about 7" or so. It's really fun to not worry about points matching just so.


However, I have been working on my purple FSQS-5 and I did want the points to match on that one. They are pretty close. Now I just need to decide on how I'm going to quilt it.