consumed by Captain A-moo-ica....

I have been working away on a cow quilt. It will go to my sister for her 50th birthday. She wasn't to concerned about what kind of quilt she would get. But her husband had a request....

he wanted me to use the Federal Shield design in it. 

I wasn't really crazy about the idea of working with curves.

So, I thought about it.

For months.

Then this spring I was looking through the book,

OUT OF THE BOX 

with easy blocks 

by Mary Lou Weidman and Melanie Bautista McFarland

I love the cow in that book and thought I might make one for a baby quilt.

I never got any further than thinking about it.

But one day it occurs to me, why not make my sister a cow with the federal shield on it?? I would only need to make one shield! That made me happy.

While driving to the dentist with Crispy, I was talking about this cow.

How it would have the shield on it's body.

Then he says, "Ya, and you can call him Captain A-moo-ica!"

When he said that, there was no stopping me.

It was perfect. My brother-in-law loves super heroes too.

The background is made by sewing strips of different widths together,

cut apart in more different widths and sewn back together.

I ended up with patchwork fat quarters.

He needed a cape, so I added that too.

The blue flying geese are there to transition from the yellow background to a green background.

The words have a green background. They will be along the bottom of the quilt.

It is all coming together.

These stars are from the Buggy Barn book, Certifiably Crazy.

I didn't make them as scrappy as the book directions.

I want the blue background ones for my border and the white ones even have a home!

Crispy had a cavity that day at the dentist. I was so excited, 

"I can come back here with you!"

"But mom, you don't have to come with."

Yes, I know, moms generally don't need to go with their 19 year old to the dentist.

BUT 

It is right across the street from the quilt shop! Of course I am going with if it means I can run into The Quilted Forest! I want a few more medium greens to add to the cow quilt!