This quilt I have wanted to make for quite sometime but only motivated myself to start it last week. I wanted to send it to an exhibit in Oregon called 'Notable Woman Quilt Initiative' but the deadline is Feb 15th. I am now just free motion quilting it and am halfway done but this photo you cannot see that. I emailed the show just to check she qualified as a notable woman and it was enthusiastically accepted. Ya! Hopefully will post again in about a week when I am finished!
Challenge Quilt 2014
For this years Foothill Quilt Guild's annual show the theme for their Challenge quilt this year is 'Recycle or Repurpose'. I was a little stuck for ideas but then I thought of all the fabrics I have to recycle. I have so many T shirt off-cuts that I usually send to Salvation Army for textile recycling, those I could use. Then a customer sent me extras ties for my own use so I could use those and recently I have started saving selvedges off fabric. So my plan was set.
So I went with the ties in the center, surrounded by a row of selvedge squares and then two rows of T shirt squares and finally my border is denim form jean legs.
'Out of the Box' Contribution
This quilted art piece I made as part of Placer Arts 'Out of the Box' Auction that is currently on display at the ARTS building in downtown Auburn, CA. I was given 6 pieces of 10" x 10" plywood. I could have made a "box" but I quilted each piece and chose my theme to be views and wildlife from the Galapagos Islands.
Each piece includes cup hooks top and bottom and some chain so that the arrange of the blocks is interchangeable and can be arranged to fit different sites or preferences.