Design Wall Monday–July 16, 2012

My design wall is here in Las Vegas but we haven’t actually set up for sewing yet so everything is packed away in hotel storage for another hour or so.  I did take a photo of my small quilt exchange that the Atlanta Modern Quilt Guild is doing with the Ireland Modern Quilt Guild.  My little quilt is in the mail and should arrive in Ireland soon.

It measures about 16 inches square – actually it is slightly taller than wide because of the quilting.  I quilted it with straight (or close to straight) lines vertically.

Here is the back.

The three smaller triangles is for hanging and the larger one is the label.  Obviously this photo was before I wrote on the label.  I forgot to take a photo after the label was added.  The three triangles will allow it to be hung in either orientation.

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Melinda

The Witch Is In

We had a Halloween challenge at guild that was due today.  Here is what I made.

 

The challenge included using at least a three inch square of the challenge fabric.  I used it for the hatband.  This is now hanging on the front door and looks great. 

There is a story behind this little quilt.  Last Halloween night we had a sew-in and I taught this quilt at Tiny Stitches.  During the evening, I managed to fuse and cut out all the pieces and should have just had to piece the background and put it together.  Of course, it didn’t work out that way.  One of the students ruined their letters so I gave her mine. Then there was a problem with someone else’s shoes so they got mine.  I had most of the pieces but it was after Halloween by then so I just put it aside.

When the challenge as announced, I found the pieces I had, cut and fused the rest and got it put together.  I quilted it last week and then found a strip of the stripe that I had used in another quilt so used it for the binding.

Lots of fun projects shown today.

Melinda