2010 Mary's River Quilt Quild Quilt Challenge

Scrap It Your Way

This challenge is intended to help members reduce their stash. With the downturn in the economy, people are packing their lunches, watching their pennies and stretching their dollars, and the Challenge Quilt Committee wants to help. Each brown bag challenge packet contains two fat quarters of coordinated fabric to use as a starting point for your project – a quilt, a wall hanging, wearable art or maybe even a reusable quilted bag for shopping—REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.
Participants are allowed to trade fabrics with someone else if desired.

Guidelines:
1. The two fat quarter fabrics must be used on the front or outside of the project.
2. Participants must use their fabric stash for the top. However, the back of the quilt or
wearable art can be newly purchased.
3. Challenge yourself to do something different/new—try a new block, technique, or machine quilting design.

This is my fabric for the challenge

My initial selection was something all together more horrible. Actually one of the prints was a very old fashioned sort that I buy on occasion, but which I can never figure out how to use. Luckily the woman sitting next to me was as horrified with her initial selection of fabric, as I was with mine, so we made a swap. But now even though I rather like these and I think I have things that will work with them, I have made no progress and my deadline is fast approaching.

UFOs#2

Objects I forgot when I made the first list

9. Yellow and Blue Crib Quilt – which I have been hand quilting for years and which is sitting in the living room. How on earth did I forget it? And it is the first quilt I ever started -- obviously not the first quilt finished though.


10. Sawtooth Stars on a Navy Ground – another one I was actually working on as I wrote the list. It is now pieced up to, but not including the borders. I can’t figure out exactly what I am going to do. I want the border to be relatively substantial (4+ inches) because I want the quilt to be a bit bigger. The quilt is based on the Sawtooth Star quilt on page 40 of the second edition of Quilts, Quilts, Quilts by McClun and Nownes. I don’t want mine to be exactly the same – but neither do I want it to be different just to be different. I now have an idea!

11. I have several strips of pieced stripes of greys and lavenders – at least some of which will go together to produce a wall hanging.

12. Alternating Greens and Peaches wall hanging – largely but not completely quilted. Actually much of this quilt has been quilted twice so it is not exactly on my oh what a fun quilt list.

13. Shades of Green – A quilt I started after I wrote the first list. About half the blocks are partially completed.

Winter I

Winter I (detail)

UFO #4 joins the rank of the finished.

This is my third in the Seasons Series (I have begun working on a second version of Winter). It is intended to reflect a Willamette Valley Winter -- multiple shades of grey. Grey and more grey day after day. (It is virtually summer and it is still grey.)