Creativity this week Two finishes Project Quilting & Stay at home round robin... done!

 

Whew! what a week, so much studio time to finish two big projects, Stay at home round robin (SAHRR)  and Project quilting (Irish chain)  

Just so you know, also this week I wrote a few stories, made ink and paper drawings, and cooked. 

(I am starting with the round robin, then we will see the Project quilting piece. If you're only here for PQ feel free to scroll down)

The first image is the center of my quilted SAHRR and here it is finished, including a hanging sleeve!

about 32" square

If you've been seeing these finishes you know about the prompts. We start with a center. Next was autograph blocks that I interpreted as a trellis. Next up was 2 colors, for me, gray and green, grass and rocks/ rock wall. Next was triangles, and I did flying geese plus the hourglass blocks in the sky. then square in a square, the sunflower fabric on the right. "Four" became the four patches on the left, and the bottom pathway. Finally, prompt was words, and I printed a quote for the top. 

I took a lot of care with quilting, lots of threads, lots of different plans and designs. I try to keep it evenly quilted so that it hangs well... here is a pic with the initial straight line quilting to secure it

yep, all my quilts are done on this small home machine

then a pic of the finished quilting...just before binding...

I added a sleeve before binding... 

cut 6" across width of quilt

I baste it on the top edge, opened up, hand baste inside the fold line, then fold it up to catch in the binding. 

no difficult hand stitching after the quilt is done. 

a dragonfly and a bee were appliqued on for fun, stitched down with metallic threads then trimmed and ready to hang on the rod in the family room! Thank you to the organizers for a fun challenge!!!

 

                              Next up is the Project quilting challenge. 

The prompt this week is irish chain as inspiration. We have one week from idea to finish to make a quilted item. I wanted a table runner for Easter... and started with fabric of course...

I wanted a variety of pastel colors 

 made 8 9-patch blocks with variety in each one, chose a pretty vintage lavendar print for the background blocks... I only had a small amount left, and it's just so pretty....

the pastels don't make a strong chain effect but that's okay with me. It felt so good to work in these colors. I started this Thursday, and finished Friday night! Whee! which meant not a lot of quilting, mostly walking foot, with some starts and stops... and a machine done binding

I used an old pretty scrap in the same colors, that reminds me of dandelions. A striped binding done completely on machine, and stitched to the front with purple metallic mylar thread

look how the colors remind me of another PQ project!

about 28" X 23"

so a busy week.... I am relieved to say both challenges are done for this year. I'm tired of the rushing they require, but love what came of them... 

it's satisfying to meet a challenge, to figure out a prompt, to be part of this network of talented quilt makers! 

For my rainbow scrap challenge peeps, I used purple scraps to piece this!

 linking with

project quilting 

stay at home round robin finishes

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/monday-musings-6-26-23/ 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/