"Between the Strips"

Here are the photo steps of how I made my quilted pillow.

Page 28 with my quilted pillow --- "Between the Strips"

Thank you for all the name suggestions!
  

These are the "words" I stitched.  It is just words -- not really intended to make sense.

I am reading between the lines to create my quilt...
You .... Me.... Us....
Fabric... Colors... Designing...
Challenges.... Brainstorming...
Quilting... Working... Playing.... Createing...
Stitching my thoughts sometimes Errors...
Sometimes the words makes sense... 
and sometimes it's too confusing.... 
Comfort can be found in things we Love to do....
Sewing ..... and .... Quilting...
I am reading...  Between the words... 
and lines.... and the fabric strips....
to create my quilted project....
from fabric strips... of Blue....
and Black and White...
This.... I.... am ... pleased....
Between the Strips....
....Bringing order to my Life...
Marcia  2013

I took photos on the sofa of my pillow but I will probably use it on my favorite chair.

I uploaded my photos to the Project Quilting Flicker Group for the Challenge.  Click HERE and you can see all the quilted projects from this week.

Kim will be sharing all the quilted projects this week on her blog too. Click HERE to go to Kim's Blog. 

Hope you are having a great weekend!
Enjoy!
Marcia

Hodgepodge Patchwork Tuesday

Today's post is about:
Needing help with a name for my quilt by Saturday,
and a Giveaway for you, today, 
and about another Blog Hop Giveaway on Friday.

I need your help with a name for my Print Publication Quilt Project for the Project Quilting Challenge.  I can't show the finished quilt, because it is not done yet. 

I want to name it something that has to do with reading.

Some Ideas:

Reading Between the Lines

Black and White and Blue all Over.

Quilted Words

Here is my progress on my project.

I cut the strips --- 1 inch, 1 1/4 inch and 1 1/2 inch.

Randomly stitched the strips together.

 Pressed/ironed and starched.

Ready to cut.

Remember my inspiration for this quilt is based on page 28 from a magazine.

Please leave a comment and help me name my quilt.

Leaving a comment will also enter you in a Giveaway for you, my readers.

The prize today is a set of 6 Quilter's Blenders Fat Quarters --- Primary and Secondary Colors. Open to everyone.

Giveaway ends Saturday, March 9th at Midnight.  Winner will be announced on Monday, March 11th.

Update:  Winner Announced -- click here!

Thanks for helping me name my quilt!

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There will be another Giveaway that starts on Friday, March 8th.  It is hosted by the Quilting Gallery.  I am giving away more prizes!

Beat the Winter Blues – Quilters’ Blog Hop Party

If you are a blogger too, you can hop over and register for the Blog Hop Party.

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Page 28 - Print Publications!

Today, I copy and pasted part of the Project Quilting Challenge for my post.  Read it quick and then scroll down and read my post.

Challenge 5: Print Publications

1. Choose a print publication***. Right now I have lots of trade publications (fruit and vegetable grower magazines for us orchard people) and seed catalogs. Quilt magazines or fabric catalogs are great possibilities. Any print publication that you have in your possession qualifies. Those that have lots of pictures are best. You might want to gather up a few, and then read the rest of this challenge before you decide which is to be your chosen publication.
2. Open your publication to page 28. Your inspiration must come from this page. Be sure to take a picture of the page, or the portion of it that provided your inspiration and include it when you upload your photos. I realize the temptation will be great to check out page 28 of every publication you can find, but please try to honor the spirit of this challenge."

On Sunday, after I read the Project Quilting Challenge, I gathered a few magazines. "The challenge states choose the magazine first and then open it to page 28."  

I was in the mood to work with blue fabrics again, so I thought I would grab a few that might have blue things in them!  

I found a nice variety.  An antique magazine, a dutch travel magazine with lots of colorful photos, an old Woman's Worlds, an old Fabric Circle, a couple American Quilter magazines, and a Country Home Magazine.

I paged through a few of them, being very careful, not to see page 28! 

Oh cool! The antique magazine had cool blue and white stuff, but it started at page 150 or something! 

So I can't use that magazine.  I thought about counting in 28 pages, but NO --- I am not going to do that.

I decided to choose the magazine by the front cover! I chose Country Home.  Maybe I will get a really cool blue Christmas page!  YES!

I flipped to page 28.

Oh no ---- it is a medicine description for an allergy medicine!  OK --- that is page 28!  There is no blue and no color, but I will be inspired to make a quilt from page 28.

I did lots of thinking about the challenge, before I went to sleep last night.  I woke up this morning and I decided to create with strips of black and white fabrics. 

I also decided to add blues.

I have some ideas flowing around in my head and I will share them later in the week.

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Hop over and 

check out this week's challenge!

Project Quilting - Challenge 5