This week's Project Quilting theme is color complements. I was surprised to see another color challenge. There is generally one that is based on an abstract concept or a feeling. Those are the ones I have no idea what to do with, so I like another color challenge. I made another card.
This week's Project Quilting theme is "Era". I knew I wanted to make some flag placemats for the big 4th of July celebration this year, so that is what I did.
This week's Project Quilting theme is the Chinese New Year and it is the year of the Horse. I made another charity quilt.
This week's Project Quilting Challenge is "Plaid". I don't have plaid. I even went to the clothes closet to see if I could steal a shirt. Nope. No plaid. I knew I could of sewn something that looked like plaid, but honestly, that was too much work. I stopped at a thrift store and spent 99 cents on a men's shirt.
I had done a cat for a birthday card earlier in the month and so had the template already made. I need a card for a lady with Parkinson's and so those two got combined.
It is once again time for Project Quilting. The current challenge is based on the 2026 Color of the Year, which is a white. Obviously, the people that do this are still enamored with the White/Black/Gray color palette (sterile, boring, cold). Shoot me, I like color. Even the author of the challenge couldn't just say the challenge was white. She gave it the name "Clean Slate".
I have been cleaning in my sewing room. We won't discuss how much I needed to do that. I knew I had a box of orphan blocks, but I found another large tray of orphan blocks. I decided in 2026 I need to make charity quilts using orphan blocks. Here is the first one.
This Project Quilting theme is "Button It Up". I actually thought of that phrase's younger brother, "Zip It Up". So I went with a zip bag from a coffee bag.
This week’s Project Quilting theme is “arrows”. It didn’t take long to figure out what I was going
to do. Last weekend I took my sister and
sister-in-law to the Port of Miami. They
went out on an eighties cruise. My SIL
was really into it. She brought a
cheerleading skirt and pompoms as that was her identity in the 1980s. What I learned was my SIL who travels a lot
for work and likes nice makeup brushes, but doesn’t really have a good way to
take them in her suitcase. So, I made
her a makeup brush roll.
I had brought my flying geese trim ruler to Florida as I need more practice. My flying geese are not as wonky as they used to be when I did the sew and flip method, but they still are not perfect. Once again, I had to play the game of what is in mom’s leftover stash that I can use. I kept finding things that went together, but the pieces were not large enough.
This week's Project Quilting's theme is a color challenge. Use the color of your birthstone as a starting point. My birthstone is sapphire, so blue it is. My mother turns 92 on Thursday, so I did a card for mom.
This week's Project Quilting theme was 3 Common Blocks. I had no idea what I was supposed to do with that. So my grand plan was to wait until I got back to Milwaukee and look at orphan blocks. I never found the box of orphan blocks as I found 6 blocks really quickly that never made it to the orphan block box. Once I laid out my blocks, it read landscape to me and I just went that direction.
See you next time.
Nancy
My Guild Challenge for March is to make something with only one color. You can use many hues of that color, but only that color. So I had an idea for that and thought well, I can lay it out as an ombre. The problem was that I had 2 days to work on it and it wasn't something I could get done in two days. On the way to Florida, I realized, I could just do a card for the Project Quilting Challenge. So, this morning I went to the grocery store, ate breakfast and at about 10:30 am, I dumped out the scrap bucket here to see if I could find fabrics for an ombre. The scrap bucket here at the condo is only a half gallon bucket. It worked, this is what I have:
Once again I am participating in Project Quilting #projectquilting. The theme for the first challenge is Mythical Character. So the first thing I do is figure out what I can make that is small enough for Project Quilting and something that I can actually use. This year I know I can always do small wallhangings for my sister who likes to decorate.
What small wallhanging can you do with Mythical Character? Simple, Cupid and a Valentine's piece fits that bill.
I cut the cupid and the words with a Silhouette Cameo. I ended up cutting the 'V' twice. I have never found where I lost the first 'V' between downstairs and upstairs to my sewing room.
I did a faced binding as I did not want a standard binding.
One last Project Quilting for 2024. This challenge came out on March 17 with a
theme of Irish Chain. I of course could
only think of the Irish Chain block. I
originally thought I would make a baby quilt, but a well-meaning friend told me
I could only do a small piece as I wouldn’t have time to finish something
bigger. I thought I was making a wallhanging,
but it may end up as a table runner.
This week's Project Quilting challenge was Wearables as a nod to Project Runway the inspiration for Project Quilting. If I were home I would have all kinds of options. Here in Florida with the fabric my mother left me, not so much. I do have 3 great nieces ages 1, 2, and 3 (two sets of parents). So a doll quilt it is.
I drew up some dresses and this is what I came up with.
It looks a bit too much like a poster for Breast Cancer Awareness for my tastes, but the 2 year already called dibs on the quilt.
This week's Project Quilting's theme was "Hour Glass". I ended up taking it literally and used the hour glass block. Why I wanted to tackle something that has 6 seams that come together in a point in a one week challenge, don't ask me. It's done and it has lots of flaws.
This week's Project Quilting theme was Inside Out. I struggled with this. My literal brain couldn't get past having the inside of a quilt on the outside. I eventually decided to use up some doilies that have been hanging out in my sewing room. I left the batting exposed and that creates a who other problem on what to do with the binding. I have never worked with doilies before. I learned some things. I also got done and feel the piece needs something else. I will have to think on that.
I also learned that a low contrast piece is really difficult to photograph on a cloudy February morning. I went outside and this is the best I got.
This weeks Project Quilting's theme was Sky Color with the twist that you couldn't use blue. I started a bigger project that I have not finished. I got to Sunday morning and decided to make something small just so I could participate. Once again I learned that I do not have the technique for a skinny binding.
This week's Project Quilting topic was a block called 54-40 or Fight. Depending on how you color it and if you use a companion block, it can look very different.
I need a dish drying pad for the condo, so I knew that is what I wanted to do. I also knew that I was simply taking a bath towel and a pieced piece of material and putting them together. I chose not to use a block as I figured it would never get straight in the process of putting the pad together. So I chose to use the elements.
This turned into an exercise of telling myself -- "It's Just a Dishing Draining Pad". I wouldn't let myself take stuff apart or start over. This started with the very beginning. I do not have any fancy rulers here in Florida. I also didn't look at any of the helpful links for how to put the block together. I simply made myself an equilateral triangle template. And quickly found out you don't end up with a square block. Most of my major problems seem to happen with cutting. You will notice my two checkerboard strips are not the same size blocks.
It's done. It will be used and one more hand towel is out of the linen closet.
Nancy
