Community Quilts

I turned in 14 quilts to Quilt By Association this month for their community quilts drive.  I received a prize of a charm pack.
Most of the quilts that I turned in were about 44" x 44".  I had created them for the Thread Fusion demo that I did for the Longarm group at Trackside Quilting in Laurel in May.

 

 

 

Fun dragon flies that were part of the Thread Fusion demo.

 

Using positive and negative space, I quilted really densely to get sea horses.

We did a block exchange at one of the retreats that I went to in Red Lodge.  My block had white in it and that made it an anomaly so one of the ladies suggested that I fracture it.  It's a cool idea.

 Then there were some quilts that I turned in that were just the rest of the flannel blocks sewn together with a denim border.  I practiced just quilting whatever on it.  I am not a very spontaneous quilter so I tried to look at the fabric as I was quilting and just quilt what I thought at the time.  It was an interesting exercise.

 

 

 

Many years ago, I took a quilting class from Karen Parker.  We used this example block to quilt different stuff in a nine patch to get different ideas of what we could do with a simple block.  I thought the block was too nice to just toss so I put binding on it and gave it to Community Quilts.

 

I thought that I would put a real dent in the fabric that I have collected for Community quilts but I still have the same 3 boxes as when I started this endeavor.  The boxes are not heaping any more so that is a good sign.