My “All About Me” quilt is finished!

Last week (on Tuesday night) I was encouraged to enter this quilt into our guild’s quilt show to be held this weekend (Saturday, October 25). The only problem with this was that this quilt was only a flimsy at this point.

There is nothing like the pressure of entering a quilt in a quilt show to make sure it gets finished! I spent last weekend quilting and evenings this week hand-sewing the binding. I finished today. I was just in time as we hang the quilts for our quilt show tomorrow!

Since there were no quilt hangers available today, I put the quilt on our bed for its picture. Of course, Joey took the opportunity to inspect the quilt. It must have met his paw of approval as he was not in a hurry to get off the quilt.

I have been itching to make another quilt from the 4-Patch Stacked Posie pattern. Since I finished my pumpkin 4-patch version, I could start a new quilt with no guilt. This is a photo of the 4-patch blocks I finished last night.

You can see the original fabric down the left hand side of the picture. I have just set the blocks on the green fabric to audition the green color choice. I want to set these blocks differently than the previous two quilts I made from this pattern. I am playing with an on-point setting. I like the green with the blocks, but I have decided that there needs to be something between the block and the green sashing. With my son’s assistance last night, we decided that the perfect colour would be a dark brown like the center of the poppy in the original fabric.
I am also undecided whether I will make one larger lap quilt, or if I will make two smaller table toppers.

Since I don’t have a fabric in the right shade of dark brown, this project will have to wait until I have a chance to get to the LQS to get more fabric.

This is the progress on the Pumpkin 4-Patch Stacked Posies quilt that I showed you blocks from yesterday.

I have now added orange sashing and green cornerstones. I ran out of orange so you can see in the picture that both sides of this piece are missing a row of orange sashing and green cornerstones. I will have to buy more orange fabric on Monday. Fortunately, I just bought the orange fabric last week so I am certain the quilt shop will still have this fabric and dye lot.

I will then need to add a narrow black inner border and an outer border of the original pumpkin patch fabric. The outer border will only be 4″ wide as that is all the fabric I have left. There is no chance to get any more as I have had it in my stash for years!

This top as it sits now in its partially finished state is 39 1/2″ x 45″.

I enjoyed making the previous 4-Patch Stacked Posie quilt so much, that I just had to try this technique again.

I had some pumpkin fabric left from a previous project and this is what it looks like cut into blocks using the 4-Patch Stacked Posie technique.

Today, I will be setting these squares together with orange sashing fabric.

I had set the blocks out on the floor to see where I wanted each block and along came my helper. I am not sure if Joey actually has an opinion on the layout or if he is just giving me a big hint that he needs attention!

This past summer my quilt guild sponsored a black and white quilt challenge. The rules were simple–only use black and white fabrics. You were allowed to add one other colour as long as the quilt was predominantly was black and white. The quilt could be any size or shape.

The quilts were finished over the summer and revealed at our first guild meeting in September–last Wednesday night.

I didn’t participate in the challenge–I ran out of time. However, one of my customers did rise to the challenge and she had me quilt her quilt for her. This is that quilt:

These are some of the other quilts completed by other members of our guild. The woman in the center created a quilt in a bag–a quillow. She is pictured in the center of this picture and is seen taking the quilt out of its bag.

This is the quilt after it was taken out of the bag.

This was the back of that same quilt.

A creation inspired by Judy Farrow’s work.

What a talented group of women!