Planning to Work on These Today / myLot

United States

February 16, 2017 11:52am CST

I spent the last hour or so cleaning up to make room to get my sewing machine out. I really must take the time to work on this project or it won't be done before April 24th when it's due. It's this years challenge project for quilt guild. We bought the "kit" which contained the instructions for the challenge and 2 pieces of fabric, a fat 8th in the green, and a fat quarter of the orange. We have to use those fabrics plus black and white in the project. It has to be some sort of star, and they encourage us to do paper piecing although that is not a requirement. The 2 colors are the ones that are in the 2 pieces in the picture. My plan is to make 4 flowers, but after reading the instructions I don't know if I can add other greens and oranges to it or not. I just put a call in to the guild president to ask. If we can't then I guess I will be done a lot quicker than I had planned. I had to leave her a voice mail but I have 2 more blocks in the fabrics they gave us that I hope to get done today while I wait to find out. Whew! Time to get started!

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69416)

• Germany

16 Feb 17

Quilting is a typical American craft.

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Marsha Cooper

@marsha32 (6631)

• United States

27 Aug 17

Interesting that you call it typical. Do other countries not quilt as we do here? Here we feel like it's pretty much a lost art like so many other things due to technology.

M.-L.

@MALUSE (69416)

• Germany

27 Aug 17

@marsha32 I've never heard of quilting being done outside the USA.

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Susan

@HazySue (39264)

• Gouverneur, New York

16 Feb 17

This looks like a fun project. I love the colors. Here's hoping you can use the colors to make the flower patterns.

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Marsha Cooper

@marsha32 (6631)

• United States

27 Aug 17

paper piecing can be fun and this was the first time I've tried the stain glass

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Susan

@HazySue (39264)

• Gouverneur, New York

28 Aug 17

@marsha32 I love the look of a strained glass quilt.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157463)

• United States

17 Feb 17

This is very pretty and reminds me of a stained glass window.

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Marsha Cooper

@marsha32 (6631)

• United States

27 Aug 17

It is a pattern from the stained glass paper pieced flowers book.

ShannyBananny

@shaggin (71655)

• United States

16 Feb 17

The green patterns are my favorite of all the ones you photographed. The red ones remind me of fireworks. I look forward to seeing the finished project and how you get it done in time for when it is due.

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Marsha Cooper

@marsha32 (6631)

• United States

27 Aug 17

I didn't totally finish it in time, but it hung up anyway. I finished it off adding yo-yo's over my seams not matching a little later at a quilt retreat.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (71655)

• United States

29 Aug 17

@marsha32 Here for the kindness rocks people started quilt ones where each person painted a square before moving it along to the next person. One was just anything people wanted to paint. The others were to be painted like actual quilt square. I added my touch to a few quilt rocks.

SHOHANA

@SHOHANA (16094)

• Bangladesh

27 Aug 17

very nice image with this post,its good to have plans for work

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Marsha Cooper

@marsha32 (6631)

• United States

27 Aug 17

So glad that project is done, but now I can't do anything with it until after a quilt show in June of next year because my guild is asking us to share them there.