Prize Winners Announced for the November Project Quilting Challenge

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:

1. Summer Tomatoes Quilt Pattern – PDF
2. Easy to Sew Quilt Pattern – PDF
3. Textures Quilt Pattern – PDF
4. Quilted Checkbook or Calendar Pattern – PDF
5. Quilted Pocket Purse – PDF
6. 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

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What Color is Your Snowball?

If a snowball had color, mine would be BLUE! 

I created a Layered Snowball for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge this month.  We were to be inspired by the Snowball Quilt Block.

I named it: "My Blue Snowball"

Flipping it over to see the backside.

I really had fun with the quilting on this one!

Wiggle Lines in a Spiral,
Wavy Lines,
Horizontal Wiggle Lines, 
and Wavy and Wiggle Lines combined!

I stitched in my name and the year.

Here is a link to how I made my Layered Snowball Quilt.

I really can't believe the 7 quilt challenges are completed! I finished all 7 of them.

Here are the links to the other six quilt challenges:

The Missing Monkey Wrenches Quilt PQOFFS6May

 "Friendship Chains" PQOFFS6June

"Bubbling BLUES" PQOFFS6July

"Grandmama's Sunrise Windmolen" PQOFF6August

Going Their Own Way --- PQOFFS6September

"One Patch Short of a 9-Patch Quilt" PQOFF6October

I am linking up for the Focus Through the Prism Project Quilting Challenge over at Kim's Blog --- Persimon Dreams.

Hop over and check out all the beautiful quilts that were created this month.

 Enjoy!
Marcia

I Named It: "One Patch Short of a 9-Patch Quilt"

I love the 9-Patch Quilt Block! It is so simple and fun to make.  There are so many variations and twists that is makes it an interesting block with a simple design. 

For the Focus Through The Prism Project Quilting Challenge we were to be inspired by the 9 Patch Quilt Block. I thought it would be fun to make a 9-Patch that was short a block, thus my simple design, missing a block!

I really had fun with the quilting on this one! I quilted differently on each 9 patch with some fun stuff including spirals and wiggle lines and bubbles and some non traditional quilting.

I thought it would be fun to add wavy lines in the background.  I was going to quilt with purple thread and then I changed my mind and selected a dark grey thread on the black fabric.  I like it!

I selected a batik backing so you can somewhat see the quilting. I love all the splashes of color.

Several years ago, I attended a 9-Patch Party, where we all brought 4 inch squares and then we threw them all out on a table and mixed them up.  Then you filled a lunch bag with the squares.  You would reach into the bag and start sewing them together in whatever order they came out.  It was really hard for me at the time, as I thought everything should match and they didn't.  But I loved the end result.

I think that is why I love the 9-Patch Quilt Block so much. It's the wonderful memory of that first 9-Patch Party!

I am linking up for the Focus Through the Prism Project Quilting Challenge over at Kim's Blog --- Persimons Dreams.

There is one more challenge for the series of 7 and that will begin Nov. 1st and we will again have one month to create a 20" X 20" inspired on a particular quilt block! Of course this month it was the 9-Patch Quilt Block.  I always try to guess what it will be.  This month, I guessed correctly!

I have the color Indigo Blue left from my Cherrywood Bundle of fat quarters to use for the November Challenge. November is my Birthday month and I saved the Indigo Blue, because I love BLUE!  You know that.

Hop over and check out all the wonderful Challenge Quilts!

Enjoy!

Marcia

"Going Their Own Way"

Yes, my geese are not flying in any order.  They are flying their own way.  That's why I named it "Going Their Own Way".

I made the flying geese quilt blocks uneven, using the pattern from Kim of the Drunken Flying Geese from the Home Sweet Home Quilt Along.

I created this somewhat similar to each 20" x 20" quilt that I have created for the Series Focus Through the Prism. What I mean by similar,is that my plan was to always use black with the color and to create a distorted version of the quilt block or at least an uneven balance to the quilt block.

I selected the yellow hand dyed fabric from Cherrywood Fabrics for this quilt challenge and then added the yellow print and then the black fabric to really make the yellows pop!

I used some of the cutaways from the corners to create a couple tiny geese. I assembled them in uneven rows.

I selected Gun Metal Grey and Canary Yellow for the quilting threads.  I used two layers of batting.  I layered them with 80/20 batting on the bottom and poly on the top.

I decided to quilt it with a small meandering for the background. It filled the space very nicely.

I quilted in Marcia and 2015.

I love the wiggle line quilting on the geese.

And the wiggle lines around the outside of the each goose.

Here's a full view.

And the backside.

On September 15th, I presented my quilts at a Trunk Show in Viroqua, Wisconsin.  I proudly shared my quilt even though I had not completed the binding.

I proudly shared all five of them!  I love how they look together.

I am linking it up over at Kim's Persimon Dreams Blog for Project Quilting's Focus Through the Prism Quilt Challenge Series. Hop over and check out all the quilts.

If you have not seen all of the posts about my Project Quilting Quilts. The links are in my sidebar. If you are viewing this on a phone, you can go to the bottom and view it as a Web version and get to all the links in the sidebar.

Thanks for following along!

Marcia