More Guild Panel Challenges

The unveiling of the guild challenge quilts happened a week ago at our monthly meeting.  The unveiling night is always so much fun as everyone gets to show and tell about their quilt for the first time since we were to keep it a secret until then.  We had 8 participate which is about normal and several of us had made two and my friend G made several pieces some that I showed in the last email.  Here are two more quilts she made with panels for this challenge.
  She pieced the cherries and appliqued the cupcake to the center – a great cheery quilt.
This last quilt is one that G made too from a panel with houses.  She lined them up added yo-yos to embellish it and pieced the dental molding looking border.  The two quilts were machine quilted as were all the other pieces she made with the panel like mine.

A. also made two wall quilts from the panels for the challenge.  The first was a giant iris that she cut out and appliqued to her backing.  The second one has huge rick rack on the sashing seams and lots of embellishments. 


V. made two Christmas wall hangings from one panel.  She embellished the printed squares with beads, glitter, embroidery.  Her workmanship is so nice and they turned out so cute.

V’s sister S. also made two wall hangings and they were embellished with embroidery, glitter and beads.

D. found some panels in block form that have trees and wildlife on them printed in browns – they almost look embroidered.  She made a quilt that would be great to cuddle up with on the couch.  A very pretty quilt.

M. kept her panel intact and pieced the red and white border that resembles a candy cane then added a folded flange border in the middle of the outside border.  It was so cute.

Z. divided up her panel added borders and had it quilted.  I love seeing what panels members chose to use for their challenge.

M. made this wall hanging with a train themed panel for one of her sons.  The cute tree piecing added so much to the piece.  Love the skinny red border as it really sets off the train.

This is a second panel challenge that M made.  I just love the bird block and the diagonal piecing she did in the border.

It was fun and we all enjoyed a closer look at all of them after the meeting.  The details are wonderful.

Until Later,
Lynn

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Challenge Number Two

I really had not planned to do a second challenge quilt but I ended up using this panel too.  I was shopping  with a couple friends at a quilt shop one day (see how innocently this story starts out.)  I purchased what I wanted and was just standing around looking at the fabric my friend G was having cut off the bolts.  She was buying a panel and I made the comment that I had one just like it at home.  Of course my friend immediately challenged me to make something from the one I had and she would do the same with hers.

I cut it apart and started thinking about what I wanted to do with it.  I thought and thought and just couldn’t come up with anything.  Finally about a week before I needed it to be done I decided to use some of the blocks to make a table runner.  Nothing too exciting I know but I was running out of time.  Here it is – I added the green fabric and the red fabric then machine quilted it.
I decided to practice machine quilting  background fillers on the quilt and selected different ones for each section. 

 

Now you are probably wondering what my friend G did with her panel.  We had our big reveal Thursday night so here is what she did with hers.  First she made this wall hanging with the fruit blocks from the panel.  Isn’t it cute!  The words are put on with paint sticks and she did a lot of piecing  too.
She also used the rest of the printed blocks, where as my left overs were used for a guild auction.  More about that another time – back to what my friend G did with her left overs.

She made a couple of mats from the large flower blocks, a couple of hot pads from the medium flower blocks, the four small blocks she made into coasters and the longer fruit blocks she made the cutest fabric buckets.  Aren’t they all so nice and she used every single block from the panel.

I am glad I used this panel and it was fun to see what someone else did with the same thing. 

Until Later,
Lynn

Bleeding Heart

My bleeding heart plant had lots of flowers this year but sadly they too have finished blooming so all I have to remind me is this photo.  I love the bursts of color that springtime bring.  This photo was taken sometime ago and all it's flowers are long gone but the memory of them still lingers.

Lynn