Thursday, October 31, 2024

Stepping Stones


The theme for my 2024 guild challenge was to reimagine a traditional quilt block and create a quilt with the theme of Community. Stepping Stones is my entry. (Earlier this week I shared an entry to my guild's challenge for the year that I was a contributed to.)

I had several different designs in mind as I approached the project, each focused on a single community in my life. At the end, I decided to design a quilt to celebrate all of them. Each of these group of people - my Pickleball group, my neighbors, the other early morning swimmers, and, of course, my family - bring joy, laughter, and friendship into my day. Some are larger than others, but they are all important.

Stepping Stones is 27" x 36". I used Ruby & Bee solids in colorways rain cloud, stormy, unicorn, turmeric, and poppy. The walking foot quilting was done on the diagonal and is roughly 1/4" spacing.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Monday, October 28, 2024

Six Hours

In late September, I shared a beach house with 5 friends for a long weekend of sewing. (See my retreat post.) The theme of our guild challenge for the year is Community so we decided to make a quilt together.

The rules were simple. First, each quilter got 1 hour to add their bit to the quilt top. Second, you were allowed to cut apart what others before you had done but you had to add it back onto the piece. Finally, we drew numbers to determine the order.

Here are the 6 progress photos. I was #3 so my bit shows up in the top row, right photo.


The next morning, we all agreed to narrow that green strip and offset things.


Clearly, we also decided to let the shape develop organically and did no work to square things up. I measured it as 28" x 42" by estimating what it would be if we added fabric to make it a rectangle

The beautiful custom quilting was done by Sara Young. I added the faced binding.


The piece was incredibly fun to work on together and there were so many laughs through the whole process. We've entered it into our guild challenge - fingers crossed for Viewer's Choice!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Vote Mini Quilt


Early voting opens in North Carolina today! This mini was made with the free pattern from Carolyn Friedlander. I've been very interested in trying out her alphabet pattern and now that I've made a mini, I am certain I will purchase the full pattern. Just need to figure out what I want to say....

I've been busy finishing up my final quilt for submission to QuiltCon which has pushed other projects to the side. This mini was a fun quick finish.

Have a wonderful day! Patty