imagine my glee when the 3rd fabric arrived...another in the red family!
This one a rich wine metallic from quiltcrazy. This was
going to be so easy! From my stash, I chose a dark and a medium green to go
with the leaves of the rose print, and a yellow as my background fabric. I
wanted to feature
the rose print, so I thought I would alternate Shoo-Fly and Snowball blocks.
But after drawing it out, the Snowball looked too boring, so I added a few lines and came up with a new block. (I'm sure this block already exists in some book and has a name, but I don't know what it is.)
The challenge for me was in joining the completed blocks together...all those quarter square triangle points to meet! I added the two borders after my trip to Wisconsin. The fabrics came from my mom's stash, as did the backing fabric.
The finished quilt is 35 x 35. I named it "Almost Christmas" for the one Christmas fabric that was used and for the fact that the quilt is in Christmas colors. But the roses make it an anytime quilt and you have to look very close to see the holly in the bear fabric. :-)
I had fun doing this and hope the others did too!
Magicat
MC pulled colors from her and her mom's stashes.... see later on this page where we discuss the planning of quilts....
I did have fun with the challenge and hope I did it
justice.
I received FQ's from Ty, Snips and quiltcrazy. The Sky background fabric is
from Ty, the side roof and binding of beige with small squares and dots was from
Snips and the side of the building and part of the checkerboard border was
from quiltcrazy.
The huge challenge here was what to do with the sky background. It needed to
be a background somehow, so I chose the hillside village.
I did use ALL of the three colors I received. Some is on the back but it is
all there. I even took some out of the trash for the back.
The quilt measures 25 X 30 and is named "Hillside Village by
Moonlight"
I would love to do a challenge like this again. And really none of the fabrics
were ugly just challenging.
Betty/lostberrypicker
Here is my story of my wonderful Challenge.
In the mail came Willo's FQ, a lovely pastel yellow with green, blue, violet floral,
then along came Polly's FQ, a bright plaid in yellow, blue, red and green, and
finally Dr. Beth's FQ arrived. It was White with Green and Brown
trees. So now I had to select a pattern and my FQ's. I already had
picked out the blue and red, but didn't know what to do.
One day I spend going through every single book, I own on quilting, trying and
trying to get an idea, but nothing, then the next day I went through a drawer and a
half of quilt magazines, still nothing, on the third day I continued thought the
last half and another full drawer looking through magazine and VIOLA!, EUREKA!,
there was the quilt that I would do, in the last magazine in the drawer. I
found the pattern in the McCall's Quilting Volume 11, No 1, February 2004, page 52 -
54. It is called Garden Court by M'Liss Rae Hawley.
Now to the cutting board and start cutting and making the blocks, oh by the way the
last FQ for my Challenge is White. After putting the top together I began
Customizing, Digitizing and Embroidery, My Garden Court Quilt. I
machined embroidered this quilt for a total 8 hours for 4 full days, total time 32
hours, then I stippled quilted the entire quilt, again another 4 hours per day,
total 8 hours. The backing and binding are the same.
How much of the Challenge FQ's are left, see the photo, that is all that is left and
also see the photos of my FQ's also all that is left.
I love this pattern and will be doing a couple more
with some other embroidery designs on them, one for a wedding and another for
a baby. Thanks so much for doing this challenge, it was a real challenge for me,
especially when Dr. Beth's FQ came. But through perseverance I conquered it.
Can't wait to see everyone's challenges. We must do this again real soon.
Purple Hugs
Donalyn(quiltDonalyn)
Photos of qD's plans and close ups ... only a month late!!
Fat quarters qD received................... ......................and fat quarters qD used.
MC's challenge started with fabrics received... in red!!
then, she added....
and pulled some from her mom's stash...
