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Project QUILTING 12.2: Fussy Cut from Goer

This quilt was kind of three and a half years in the making, and also less than a day. This week's one-week Project QUILTING challenge is Fussy Cut! Like the last PQ challenge I challenged myself to a modern traditional design using a traditional block as a jumping off point. The most popular response to my instagram poll indicated Churn Dash as the favorite traditional block. That made me think of one of the first quilts I ever made.

I planned to start early in the week. (Don't I always?) And then I found myself without a stitch ...

added by sarah 5 years, 1 month ago. under challenge quilt , finished quilt , gift quilt , mini quilt , project quilting , quilting (Comments)

Project QUILTING 12.1: Illuminating + Ultimate Gray from Goer

With the start of the new year comes the start of the new Project QUILTING season. I'm hoping to participate in all six challenges this season. In 2020, I started my Improv Log Cabin Mini series with a couple of the Project QUILTING challenges. This year, just before the first challenge was announced I decided I would layer my own design challenge on top of the Project QUILTING challenge's again this year. I'll be using modern traditional design in my challenge quilts this season.

Modern Traditionalism in quilting refers to a design that is built on a ...

added by sarah 5 years, 2 months ago. under challenge quilt , finished quilt , mini quilt , project quilting , quilting (Comments)

This and That on A Friday from Humble Quilts

This and that on my design wall. I'm prepping some options for the string quilt class. I think the settings are endless!

I finished my antique block quilt challenge! Whoop! Whoop! It is small, but everything else is unusual for me. We will share our challenge quilt on November 25th. I'm looking forward to seeing them!

A bit of Instagram this week.

And Elsa making herself comfy when nobody was looking!! She's looking at me like, "Oh Hi! What did you turn the light on for?" LOL

And so I had this crazy thought that Tuesday would ...

added by Lori 5 years, 4 months ago. under antique quilt block , challenge quilt , instagram

Antique Block Challenge from Humble Quilts

Last year at the Houston Quilt show I challenged a few blog readers to an antique block challenge.

It was this: The antique blocks are an optional challenge- make a quilt with it, cut it up, undo the seams, keep it whole, make a little quilt, big quilt, potholder, label, etc........ And you have a year to complete it.

Well, this is my reminder if you wanted to play that a year is closing in! The deadline will be American Thanksgiving, November 26th.

Connie, Jan, Sandy, me, Ann, Kevin and Tea and their blocks.

And- Christopher, Cecile, Janet. (Christopher was ...

added by Lori 5 years, 5 months ago. under antique quilt block , challenge quilt

Less Hideous Challenge = Rose Garden from Sew Sunshine

Rose Garden
22" x 22"
Less Hideous Challenge for OMQG
Improv Piecing
Organic Hatch quilting

One of my local guilds set up a challenge where you pulled fabric out of a big bag of uglies. I picked the two above which I felt were lesser of all the dated fabrics. I kept them laying around until I thought what I wanted to do. It was hard because the bigger print would be hard to put in any kind of quilt block and it would still read traditional.

Then I figured I would have to improv a traditional block, in this ...

added by Kris 5 years, 9 months ago. under challenge quilt , improv , modern , modern traditional. , omqg , organic , scraps , ugly fabric

Apron Challenge from Collector with a Needle

Four of the aprons - Chicken Scratch Embroidery

Hmmm....It wasn't a hard decision, I immediately said YES!

Last month I was invited to join extraordinary quilters Allison Aller and Rhonda Cox Dort making quilts from aprons. I added a caveat I would also make some sewing smalls.

The aprons are from Deborah Turner Ursell's fantastic selection.

Aprons embroidered with rick rack

The first step was to checkout the aprons and start developing some inspirational thoughts.

The colors, rick rack the soft feel of the woven gingham made me think of a stash of men's shirts I had ...

added by Dawn 5 years, 11 months ago. under apron quilt , challenge quilt , chicken scratch embroidery , hexagon quilt , recycle textiles , vintage apron , vintage linens

Project QUILTING 11.6: Vibrant and Vivacious from Goer

When I heard that this week's Project QUILTING challenge was Vibrant and Vivacious I immediately thought rainbow.

Before I forget, this is your official reminder that we're nearing the end of Show Me Something Rainbow! Be sure to link up your finished rainbow projects by the end of March. There's still time to finish something up in the next nine days. :-)

I chose a rainbow of fabric in lighter and more vibrant tones. I realized as I started piecing that my wonky, irregular log cabin wasn't really very wonky, but I went with it. My strips ...

added by sarah 6 years ago. under aurifil artisan , aurifil thread , challenge quilt , finished quilt , free motion quilting , mini quilt , project quilting , quilting , sew my stash , sew the rainbow (Comments)

Project QUILTING 11.4: Birds in the Air from Goer

Superfast Project QUILTING 11.4 post since I finished and photographed my quilt just 30 minutes before the deadline. Phew!

This one is just a twofer, the PQ challenge and a sample for my Creating a Scrappy Slab workshop, which I will be teaching at Bay Area Modern Quilting on April 24, 2020, in Palo Alto, CA. I wanted to create more samples of using a scrappy slab in a traditional block, so this was a perfect opportunity. I continued with my PQ theme this season of a limited palette of black, white, and one other color and turned to ...

added by sarah 6 years ago. under challenge quilt , finished quilt , mini quilt , project quilting , quilting , scrappy slab (Comments)

TGIFF and Project QUILTING 11.3: Put a Heart on It from Goer

I had such a great time making my project for Project QUILTING 11.2 that I knew I wanted to turn it into a series. I held back from starting a second one before this past Sunday in case I could make it work for PQ 11.3. Low and behold, I could! So I chose Kona Cerise (the February 4 Kona Color of the Day) as my starting point with a vague plan to make an improv log cabin with Cerise, white on cerise prints, and black and white prints. And I would work in triangles to the piecing ...

added by sarah 6 years, 1 month ago. under challenge quilt , finished quilt , mini quilt , project quilting , quilting , sewmystash , sewmystash2020 , tgiff (Comments)

Third Finish for the 2019 Finish-A-Long - 4th Quarter from The Quilt Yarn

Just in the nick of time...

Managed to finish a third quilt with 1 more day to go for the link-up. Very happy with myself! Actually I am a bit chuffed. This year I was managed to 'play' along for the entire year...maybe not as productive as some, but still finishing off a number of projects and linking up! I really like the finish-A-Long for the focus that it gives me in planning and organizing my projects. Some projects just continue to be on the list, but that does not matter...I'll get around to making/completing them ...

added by Karin 6 years, 2 months ago. under 2019 finish-a-long , challenge quilt , handiquilter sweet 16

An easy finish • Jungle Stuffies from Elsie Quilts

Here is another charity quilt. I've a pile of panels suitable for children that will go to a charity called Basically Babies. They make layettes that will cover one year, including duds, quilts and blankets and even match colors etc. These go to families in need. This one was fun. I added borders to the panel and had fun with the quilting. It was a Panto called Gingersnap, but I added eyes and ears to the concentric circles and made them look like stuffy faces.

I'm also working on a guild challenge quilt. The first person gets a ...

added by Elsie Montgomery 6 years, 3 months ago. under basically babies , challenge quilt , halo medallion , jungle stuffies , panel quilts

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