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!
Great design choice to narrow the green stripe and I love that you left it the organic shape.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I think it's fantastic that you could have a week away quilting with friends. I know for a fact how fun that can be! Second, your group quilt is sure a fun idea! It's wonderful that you could all agree that the wide green needed to be narrowed, and that the secions needed to be off-set. That open-mindedness to change worked well for all of you. When is your guild challenge? I'd love to hear you-all won.
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