It is 3 am (est) so why am I awake. My darling grandson had a night mare and woke up screaming. He is now sleeping the sleep of the unconscious but I am wide awake and can not go back to sleep.. BUMMER!! So I decided to journal my FMQ adventures because this is basically what this blog is about. This little baby quilt will go live in Arizona with my nephew, his wife and their expected daughter. If I want to remember the lessons I learn in this quilt I have to record them here because I will probably
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This is from my second session of FMQ on this sheep quilt. I used a french curve for the top panel and made gentle swoops. I was trying to mark them consistently but when I sewed them I strayed from the path. I only did one single pass using 40 wt King Tut thread. I was trying to mimic background hills.
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I had to show you the quilt back to my Emerald Quilt Challenge Quilt. In keeping with the I will not buy any fabric for this challenge mentality I set for myself- I decided to go through the vintage sheets scraps I had on hand. I have vintage sheets on quite a few quilt backs and as a result have a few chunky panels of sheets. Well well, now I have a quilt back of chunky panels. So… if you are reading that how I’m reading it, “It is chunky in the back.” bwhahahaha.
The Pantone Emerald Quilt Challenge Quilt is finito. Hooray! Before QuiltCon I was telling you about stamping out the fabrics- Well, I got the quilt built and quilted. It is only 42″ square. So not only is there the online challenge, but also, the San Antonio Modern Quilt Guild issued a Pantone Emerald Challenge. WOOT! Two birds, one … um quilt. The SAMQG contest is due in August. I plan on entering this… but you never know. I might get a wild hair to make something else
