YVQG Block Exchange

I did get some block for the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild completed.

A nine patch for Mary Kay G.:

Broken Glass from Cozy Modern Quilts by Kim Schafer for Janie B.:

Rogue River Log Cabin by Judy Martin for Nancy A.:

I only got the easiest blocks completed this month.  I have instructions for other blocks but it seemed I was behind on all of my quilting projects so I had to just select the easiest to complete.

QBA Row by Row

For the Quilt By Association Row by Row for August, I tried to do some embroidery as suggested in the 120 Original Embroidery Designs book by Yoko Saito.  I did not get organized soon enough and I had to take the project back to work on an additional week.  That is not how Row by Row is supposed to work but the lady that I was to exchange with was not at the meeting.  I was able to get the row to her at a different meeting the following week.  I must say that I lucked out.

Paula C. asked us to join the rows together.  Her intent is that she will have a completed quilt top when she receives her rows back.  Here is what her quilt is looking like when I returned it:

I did the bottom row of 2 inch square together to represent a season.  I tried to make the end (winter) more blue but I don't know that it worked out too well.

Embroidered Square Wave:

Embroidered Chamomile:

 Threaded Running Stitch:

Embroidered Small Stars:

I did have fun doing the embroidery on this project.  It may have been doing too much work for an exchange though.  But I used it as a jumping off point for another project (WAV analogous colors challenge) so that is always good.  Must keep learning and growing!

Orphan Block - #28 August

The activity for the September meeting of the Quilt By Association guild was an orphan block exchange.  We exchanged orphan blocks in August.  By the September meeting, we were to have completed something using the orphan block we received.  Then we were entered into a drawing to win one of two $25 gift certificates to the quilt shop of our choice.

I provided the following blocks to the exchange:

The bee was one of the leftover bees from the round robin exchange I turned in last month.

The black, white, and pink block is a block I created in a piping class at Big Sky Quilt Retreat in 2013.  It was the Piping Hot Curves - Macaroni by Susan K. Cleveland.  The class was awesome but I decided that I was not going to pursue piping at this time.

 I received a Christmas block that ended up in the center of a wall hanging I created.

As I was considering what to do with the orphan block I received, I was also working on a community quilts project.  I went through the fabric I had received from Iretta Hanson.  She happened to have the same Christmas plaid that was in my received orphan block.  I laughed and then used the fabric right up!

Small Block

For the Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild Round Robin, I selected a block from the New Classic Patch Work book by Yoko Saito.  Before I used the actual fabric for the Round Robin, I created a sample block.  I had to make sure I got the measurements correct and see if the block was going to be too challenging.

When I was finished with my sample block, I did not have any plan of what to do with the block.  I was just going to put it in the pile of fabric to be used on the back of something someday.  Keegan said he wanted the block so I sewed a back on it with batting and turned it.  I did very basic topstitching with a zig zag as the quilting.  Nothing special but Keegan likes it.

The final product is about 3 inches square.

Friendship Block Exchange

I am participating the Friendship Block Exchange again this year.  This year, we have 20 participants.  I created the following blocks from which people to select their block:

Sue Hanson at Trackside Quilting selected the fabric we were to use somewhere in our block this time.  It is the blue leaf/tropical batik.  I used it as one of my one and a half inch horizontal lines in the center of the block.

We could select any block we wanted to create.  I used the Rectangle Window block from the New Classic Patch Work book by Yoko Saito.  The blocks in the book are about three and one quarter unfinished so I had to modify the pattern to get the unfinished size to twelve and a half inches.

I get to select the batik for the next round of Friendship Block Exchange.  My initial thought is an orange solid batik.  We are having the exchange party this Saturday so I suspect my selection may become modified when I hear the other member's opinions.

YVQG Exchanges

Yellowstone Valley Quilt Guild decided to do both a Row by Row & Round Robin exchange for 2014.  I opted to participate in both.  We were tasked to turn in our exchanges at the July meeting.

I created the paper pieced bees for the border for Pam P.'s Beekeeper round robin.

The bee pattern is from the Over by the Pond pattern from The Quiltmaker Pattern collection.

Garden row for Linda O.

The frog and dragonflies are paper pieced patterns from the Over by the Pond pattern from The Quiltmaker Pattern Collection.

I picked up the Over by the Pond pattern at one of the vendor booths at HMQS in Salt Lake City, UT in May.

Wall Hanging

My sister, Kyla, did one of her pharmaceutical rotations in Billings at Riverstone Health.  The final assignment was a reflection project of her time at Riverstone Health.  Kyla decided to create a wall hanging.  Kyla did all of the work.  I just watched.  Kyla did a great job!

I was showing Kyla fabric that she could use for her project.  Keegan has just received fabric from Brooke A.  Keegan was helping select fabric and he was suggesting fabric that Kyla could use from his stash.  He told Kyla that she could use some of his fabric because he wouldn't be able to use it all.  It was really sweet.  The orange stripe fabric is from Keegan's stash.