MQG Community Challenge Quilt

(Click here for One Monthly Goal August Link-up)

Each year my local quilt - Triangle MQG - participates in the QuiltCon Community Quilt challenge.  We enjoy working together and seeing the quilt hang at QuiltCon.

The challenge for 2022 is angles and the color palette was bright and cheery.  Our quilt committee designed a quilt that uses blocks of different sizes and gave us each specific fabric to work with and assignments on how many blocks to make.  I was assigned Fig Tree Olive and Boysenberry - both Moda Bella solids.  

I started off by making a bunch of 3 1/2'' squares and 3 1/2'' x 6 1/2'' rectangles, each with some unique shapes.  The blocks were FPP although there are a few that I ignored the printed line but just used the paper as a foundation to sew together my scraps.

Once these were all created, I played with different combinations looking to see what effect I could make when the smaller pieces were combined.

Here are four 6" blocks rotated slightly differently each time to see what kind of fun angles were created.  Isn't that fun?

(I clearly took my progress photos at different times of the day with all different lighting!  The top photo seems the best true to color.)

This is where I ended up for the 12" block.

And then my 6" blocks.

Aren't these fun? 

I can't wait to see how this quilt will come together and I'll make sure to share the final quilt here.   The quilt top needs to be at least assembled and photographed before the end of October to enter into QuiltCon.  We've then got until the end of the year to finish the quilt, update our photo and get it ready to be mailed.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

One Monthly Goal August Finish Link-up

Ready to link up your August finishes?

Don't panic - this link-up is open until August 31 at 11:55 pm ET.

My goal for August was to get my HST quilt top assembled and basted.  I got that done plus the quilting and binding - all ready to be gifted!  Read more here.

Now its your turn to link-up!  We will have 3 lucky winners -  Fat Quarter Shop is offering a $25 gift certificate, Make Modern is offering a 6 month subscription, and Aurifil is offering a thread pack!

Congrats to Lyndsey, Teri, and Laura - our lucky winners for August!  (updated 9/6)

Visit the One Monthly Goal event page for the specific requirements for links and social tags. 

And remember, to be eligible for the prize(s) by random drawing you must linkup at both the goal setting and the accomplishment linkup in a given month. (August Goal Setting Link-up)

Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can follow where you are linking.   Let's make that easy -  just paste this into your post:  

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - August Finish Link-up

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Have a wonderful day! Patty

Summer Slow Stitch August update

My goal for the last month was to add some hand quilted circles insides the squares of my Summer Slow Stitch project.  As you may remember, the quilt top was all hand pieced.  My first step in quilting was some walking foot quilting in the background.   This is where the quilt stood on my blog update mid-July.   (See previous posts here,  here,  here and here for more information.)

 The quilt measures roughly 55" x 55".   There are 145 squares that need some hand quilting in them.  68 of them are done - at most I've been doing 3 a day - which means 77 to go.

There is no rush to finish this project - which is why I call it my slow stitch project!

I'm using Sulky thread and thread gloss from Sew Fine.   I mark the circle by tracing a thread spool and using a Sewline marking pencil.  

I really enjoyed the challenge of hand piecing this quilt and the now hand quilting the circles.

Have a wonderful day! Patty