Texas Bluebonnet Wall Hanging

I love my home state of Texas and have chosen it as one of the design themes for my house. This is how I made this wall hanging for my guest room: I traced around the outline of Texas using an old highway map onto a  product called Steam-a-Seam II, cut it out and applied it to background fabric with an iron. Using my  Viking  Designer I sewing machine, I appliquéd the map to the fabric by stitching around the border. To create the bluebonnet/windmill scene, I used an embroidery program of Texas icons which included a 3- step stitch out of the windmill. ( I stitched the embroidery onto the map before I appliquéd it onto the background fabric.)

 I created the rest of the scene by fussy cutting pieces of existing fabric and attaching them to the map with Steam-A-Seam. In order to add depth, I spilled flowers over the border of the map in the same manner. I then appliquéd the flowers to the map and background fabric  with my sewing machine. I sewed 2.5 " strips together and rotary cut them into 6" sets. The back of the hanging is muslin, sewn with the right sides together and with a rod pocket sewn to the back.

Hope you like it!