Quilting news

I don’t know if you remember this quilt that I finished in the summer. I never said what happened to it. It is a gift for a special person, there were reasons why she only got it now.Yup, it’s for Shira!She does love it, even if that means walking all over it with her shoes on. She slept very nicely under it as well.Sometimes it’s scary how photogenic she is.

I have been working on quite a few quilting projects lately. Both guilds I belong to now do challenges. Valley MQG asked us to use 

Kona cotton color of the year, highlight Yellow.  It wasn’t easy to find, it still isn’t, it is selling out everywhere. Maybe because it is a much better choice than making a political statement with baby pink and blue like Pantone did.  Anyway Sew Modern did have charm packs and I split one with a friend.I also had a charm pack of rainbow solids, which is perfects since LAMQG is having a challenge with solids only. Score! One quilt for two challenges.

I like the idea of using one block and making changes by playing with the colors. I decided to use a tried and true block, one that doesn’t have too many half square triangles. Churn Dash. I made this out of charm squares I won as well. I really wanted to see how this block will work using a 5″ charm pack. It works very well as long as your goal isn’t a 12″ block.  It comes out more like 11.5″ which is fine for me since I’m repeating the same block, not making a sampler.Ok, I’ll admit it, it is very hard for me to stick to just one block, so every so often I threw in a checker board.I gradually moved onto the other colors.I am not a big fan of the rainbow. I wouldn’t have chosen this if I were buying fabrics for the project. On the other hand, aside from buying the Kona Highlight, I set my own challenge of only using the other charm pack and not including any other solids in my stash.I ended up being very pleased with the final result, now to figure out how to quilt it.