That's what I named my quilt!
"Love Makes the World Go Round"
That was one of my Dad's favorite songs to sing to my kids when they were babies. He would sing it over and over and over until they stopped crying.
December was an extremely busy month for me with my quilting business and all sorts of other stuff for the holiday. I never seemed to find a spot to fit in time to work on the December Optional Quilt Challenge for Project Quilting.
On December 31st, I thought to myself, I have all day!
YES!
.....Well, all day turned into only a couple hours as we were having problems with our phone and that took over 2 hours to get it straightened out. Then something else came up and then another thing. By the time I started it was afternoon.
Here's how I created my quilt:
Step One:
I ironed on Lite Heat and Bond to the backside of my fabric scraps from all 7 challenge quilts.
Step Two:
Cut the fabric into 2 1/2 inch squares.
Step Three:
I peeled the paper off the back and I ironed/pressed them in a circular formation on black fabric. The black fabric was about 22" by 22" square.
I placed them in a random order, starting with the orange squares in the center and just going around the circle.
Step Five:
I selected the quilting thread and quilted it.
I quilted on the black with a dark grey quilting thread. I quilted the background with multiple wavy lines starting in the center and going around and around.
I quilted each color with the corresponding color with a very wiggly spiral motif in each square.
I quilted in Marcia and the year in the corner.
I made a hanging sleeve and a label for the back of my quilt.
But I did not complete it before midnight, so technically I should have added 2016 to the label as I finished it on January 1st.
It's OK, as I really had fun making it!
I took a couple more up close photos, so you can see the very wiggly spiral quilting on the squares.
And a couple photos of the backside.
I created a little stop/start video of how I made my quilt and shared it on instagram.
I share on instagram craftysewingandquilting
Thanks for the Quilt Challenge Kim from Project Quilting.
I did not link it up, as I did not make the deadline, but you can hop over and check out all the beautiful quilts that did make it in time --- Click Here.
Tomorrow, Jan. 3rd, Season 7 starts for Project Quilting.
I have sponsored Project Quilting since Season Two. Hop over and check out the Quilt Challenges.
Join in on the fun of creating quilts!
Enjoy!
Marcia
I have been with sponsoring Prizes for Project Quilting since Season Two! Wow! How time flies when you are having fun creating!
Project Quilting will be starting Season Seven in January of 2016! Quilters from all over the world participate in creating beautiful quilts. Kim inspires them to create fabulous quilts. It is amazing!
During the past 8 months, for the Off Season Project Quilting Challenges, I sponsored with 2 prizes for 2 separate winners for every Challenge.
The first one is a “Quilting Gift Certificate” for $30.00 off the Quilting on a Baby size quilt or larger. (Baby, Lap, Twin. Full, Queen, or King) from me --- Marcia’s Crafty Sewing and Quilting.
The Gift Certificate is good for 4 months starting one month after the challenge ends. Excluding the Month of December for using the gift certificate.
The quilting gift certificate is transferable to another person, so you can share it with a friend, if you’d like.
I offer an estimate based on the size of the winner's quilt top, quilting choices, thread choices, and batting and if they would like to purchase backing fabric from me. Winner can send backing fabric and batting with their quilt top, but I do have it available. This way the winner has a good estimate of the value of your quilting prize.
Hop over to Persimon Dreams to see all the winners for the November Project Quilting Challenge.
Here is the link to a Review Post of all the beautiful quilts that were created in 2015 over the past 7 months for the special series of challenges.
Kim also shared about my sponsorship for the December Quilt Challenge. I am sponsoring with 3 PDF Downloadable Patterns for 3 winners of the 3 Quilt Challenges.
Here are the six quilt patterns the winner will get to chose from:
- Summer Tomatoes Quilt Pattern – PDF
- Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern – PDF
- Textures Quilt Pattern – PDF
- Quilted Checkbook or Calendar Pattern – PDF
- Quilted Pocket Purse – PDF
- Turn a Quilt into a Bag Pattern – PDF
These PDF Downloadable Patterns are all available for purchase in my Craftsy Store all year round, 24 hours a day.
Also, any of them are available in printed form. Send me an email. Marcia@craftysewing.com . I add $2.00 on for printing, plus shipping of $1.50 for US Shipping.
Visit Marcia Wachuta - Crafty Sewing and Quilting's Craftsy Pattern Store »
I am sponsoring with 3 of my PDF Patterns. One for each of the different possible Project Quilting Challenges that you can participate in this month (December). Kim's girls will draw the winners from the hat for these prizes. Winners will be announced in January.
Hop over and check out this month's Project Quilting Challenge!
Enjoy!
Marcia
Join in the fun of trying to post every day in December!
Click here to check it out:
The 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge
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