Blue Crumbs - #46 July

The Town & Country Quilt Guild July Challenge was a crumb challenge.  I created Blue Crumbs.

We exchanged crumbs at the January meeting of the Town & Country Quilt Guild.  We had months to finish our challenge quilt in time for the July picnic.  I do believe I put my crumb quilt off until the last minute.  Hate to change my wicked ways now :-)

The centers of each of the blocks is a polar fleece piece.  They were cut in ovals or rough circles.  I had been thinking of making an island and boats but by the last minute when I started working on this project, everything just ended up in a traditional square.

Spiral - #45 April

The WAV challenge for March was Contrast.  I created Spiral.

Of course, Spiral was not completely finished for the March WAV meeting.  Therefore it gets to be my April finish.

Leaves - #44 March

I finished Turning Over a New Leaf by Laura Heine for Regina R. in March.  I had received the fabric and pattern in May 2015.  I had been putting it off for a long time because I had never done trapunto before.  It did take a long time to do and it was terrifying to have scissors around the quilt top.  But, it is finally done.

I had to go into Fiberworks a number of times to look at the original quilt by Laura Heine.  I wanted to get it right.  One of the ladies at Fiberworks told me that it was ok to put some of my own personality into the quilt.  I didn't know if that was ok since it is for someone else.  After giving the quilt to the actual owner, she made me feel better.

Now I have to work on In My Garden by Laura Heine for Regina R.  It has a lot of small pieces.  It is going to be even more stressful to do the trapunto.  I need to get it done.

Fat Quarter Pop Up

At Featherweight Friday in March, we did the Fat Quarter Pop Up by the Fat Quarter Gypsy, LLC.
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It is very cool - it has a spring in it so you can compress it to plate size or it pops up - hence the name.

YVQG Row by Row

I had created hearts from 1 1/2" squares a long time ago.  I had also cut up pieces to create even more hearts but didn't get around to finishing a quilt of the hearts.  I took the hearts that were done and used them as the starting point for my 2016 YVQG Row by Row.

While I was making the row, I thought that I should finish some of the other hearts so I could add them to the final Row by Row project.  We are months and months into the Row by Row exchange and I have not yet created any more hearts even though all of the fabric is cut out.  Imagine that.

YVQG Row by Row

The Row by Row from Nancy Herington was very specific - cut out the pattern she designed and applique the pieces on the background.  Do not stitch around the pieces.  Just do what is in your bag.  Easy.  I completed that task the same day that Leslie gave it to me.

Nancy is calling her quilt How to Build a Snowman.  It will be super cute when it is done.

YVQG Round Robin

Leslie Justice's Round Robin is Black & White & Color.

I used all fabric from Leslie's project.  I have been trying not to add any extra.

YVQG Round Robin

I was the first person that got to add a round to Betty Hecker's Round Robin.  She used the Farm Girl Vintage book to create her center.  Following her lead, I also used the Farm Girl Vintage book to create the sunflowers and leaves round.

Betty left a lot of white around her house to allow for trimming to the size needed for the next round.  I left most of the white there.  It could use some cool quilting in the white.

YVQG Round Robin

I created two rounds for Sue Hanson's YVQG Round Robin.

I created the piano key round and the half square triangle round.  As usual, it took longer than I anticipated.  I had to make special arrangements to pass along the project to Alice J. on Saturday.  They were due at the Thursday meeting.  I needed an extra day to finish.

The center that Sue created is from Edyta Sitar's Common Bride pattern.

T & C Quilt Show 2016

The Town & Country Quilt Guild in Joliet hosted a quilt show the end of April, beginning of May 2016.  I entered Blue Squares.

I won second place in the Small Quilts category.  I was later told that it should have been in the Art Quilts category.  That was very nice of Nancy R. to say that.  When I was filling out the entry form, I was doing it quickly and just looking at the size.  I forgot to take anything else into consideration - like original design.

Dillon also entered a quilt.  He called it Purple Mountains.  I entered a picture with his description.  Because of the picture of Dillon at the quilting machine, Dillon won third place in the Youth category.

Dillon quilting Purple Mountains.

Keegan also entered a quilt in the Town & Country Quilt Show at the Red Lodge Civic Center.  His quilt was really small.  I believe it was in a difficult place to see.  I did not even see it the first time I went through the quilt show.  I had to go back again to make sure I found his quilt to view.  Keegan did not win a ribbon.

I worked at the Trackside Quilting booth some of the time during the Town & Country Quilt Show.  Sue H. was also nice enough to let us stay at Lions Camp during the show.  It was pretty fun for the boys too.

T & C Row by Row

I received the rows back from the Town & Country Row by Row 2015.  We were supposed to receive our rows back in December but I did not receive mine back until February.  I was a little worried for a bit that I was not going to receive my rows and fabric back because one of the ladies in the group was moving out of state.  But it all worked out.

Here are the rows I received back:

Cool!

2016 YVQG Round Robin

I decided to participate in the Round Robin through the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild in 2016.  I created a center using Judy Niemeyer's Mariner's Compass.  The paper piecing is done on Ricky Tims' Stable Stuff Poly so I will not have to rip paper out when I start to put everything together.

I am happy with my center.  Sue H. was giving me a hard time because she is in my group and we are a few rows in.  Since the math has not been done, 8 sides is a bit of a challenge.   I know Sue will do a good job though.

YVQG Block Exchange

It appears that I have not talked about block exchange through YVQG for a long time :-)

Nancy Appel:

Carmella Mares:

Dorothy Curtis:

JoAnne Gruver:

Sue Hanson:

Betty Knapp:

Lee Kuhr:

MaryKay Gartland:

Pam Peterson:

Lyn Banks:

At this point, I have created 12 blocks for other people.  That should allow me to present a block to the group soon.  But my name has not yet come up.  There are a number of people ahead of me on the list so I will just need to wait my turn.  In the meantime, I have collected directions for other blocks to create for people so I suspect I will do at least 3 more.  In the past, the block exchange group has said, around 12.  When a lot of people are participating, I think around 12 means you need to create more than 12 to get to present next.

BSQR 2017 Raffle Quilt Blocks

We are doing a paper pieced Cozy Steps quilt for the Big Sky Quilt Retreat raffle quilt.  The Big Sky Quilt Retreat will be March 8 - 11, 2017.
These are the blocks I created to help create the quilt.

The visible part of the log is 1/2" wide.  You are not running over seams too much because each log is pressed toward the outside.  It looks really cool when they are all put together.