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Pantone Challenge–Go Vote!!!

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The online Pantone Challenge is accepting Reader’s Choice votes now.

Go HERE to vote for your favorite quilt in each of the 3 categories:

  • Quilts (full size)
  • Mini quilts
  • Just the Top (entries that aren’t quilted yet)

You have to scroll down quite a ways to get to the entries.  Pick one favorite in each category.  Vote by clicking the heart in the upper right hand corner.

Mine is #36 in the second category, Mini Quilts.  So many fun quilts to look at!

Applique quilt

Radiating Orchid mini-quilt for the Radiant Orchid Challenge, 15″ x 15″

Fairyland to Vermont

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I’ve just submitted my improvisational quilt “In Fairyland” to the Vermont Quilt Festival, and of course I’m hoping it gets in!

improvisationally pieced quilt

In Fairyland

I made the blocks at the top just for fun when I got an EQ add-on called “Town & Country Patchwork” by Cori Derksen & Myra Harder (who have generously agreed to my use of their designs in this quilt for the show).  The blocks are paper pieced and I made them in fantasy colors because those were the scraps I had on the day I decided to make them. Then the blocks sat around for quite a while 😉  Sound familiar?

Eventually I decided I needed to use up some of my MANY scraps.  At least the scraps are cut into strips of standard widths, so when I get a notion to use them, they’re ready to go.  So I just made rows of scraps, putting the sky-type ones at the top.  Below the houses, I arranged the thinner rows in the “distance”.  Finally, I found one of the flower fairies and put her in near the bottom.improv pieced quilt

My friend Joyce quilted the whole thing on her long arm, using a pattern of leaves at my request.quilting on improv quilt

I’m happy to say I’ll be going to the Vermont Quilt Festival this year–something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.  I’m hopeful that “In Fairyland” will be included so I can view my own quilt there!  Anybody else going?

Exciting News x 2!

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Woo-hoo!  One of the blocks I submitted to the Modern Quilt Block Contest at Modern Quilts Unlimited magazine was selected as a finalist!  I thought they were going to publish pictures of the finalists, but it turns out they had even bigger plans.  I now have a contract to make a quilt for their publication based on my block!  I am so excited!  Of course, this means I can’t show you the block yet.  My quilt is scheduled for the Summer 2014 issue, and I’m happy to say that one of my favorite fabric manufacturers has agreed to provide fabric for it.

And now that the contest is over, I can show you the other block designs I submitted. Here they are:

The idea here is a picture window, but actually I designed it improvisationally
Of course this is based on Piet Mondrian’s paintings, and particularly on the Mondrian dresses derived from them

My friend Ann over at Sew Messy (don’t you love that name?) also entered, and one of her blocks finished third!!!  She can’t show it on her blog yet, because it’s going to be featured in a quilt published in the magazine, but go on over and check out her blogs:

Sew Messy

Sport Sew

And now the other exciting news:  Somebody bought my Quilt Alliance donation in the eBay auction!  I was worried because I figured out AFTER I donated a quilt that most of the people making donations were much better known than I.  However, it did sell, and for a respectable price by my standards.  So a big THANKS to whoever bought it, and now I’m encouraged to start a donation quilt for the Quilt Alliance for next year.  In case you missed the earlier post, this is the 20″ square quilt I made for the Quilt Alliance TWENTY contest:

Rising star art quilt

Rising Star, made for the Quilt Alliance TWENTY contest in 2013

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!