Trees are the Inspiration for Challenge One!

Trees are usually green, so I have pulled out some of my greens and blue greens from my fabric stash.  I do not like the color green, but my daughter loves green.  That means, I collect green fabrics to make quilts for my daughter. She bought me a bundle of fabric for Christmas this year and it included the 2 greens on the far left.

Last year, I made her a "Squary Quilt" using some soft greens.  I added a few blue greens to the mix and even added one that had tiny purple flowers.

On another note:  Do you know you are suppose to sleep under a quilt, before you give it to a loved one?  Yes --- We slept under it and so did Toby!

Anyway, back to the green fabrics for the Project Quilting Challenge.

I grouped the green fabrics together and took photos of them.  This helps me to see them and to start dreaming about a possible quilt. 

The first one was the dots and check prints.

I like this next collection best, because it has a little blue and a little purple. I hope my daughter chooses these fabrics.

If I were making something for my home, I would choose some of these greens and blues.  It would be perfect in my living room. Our home is surrounded with pine trees.

I do not like these greens, but there were in my fabric stash! I might need them for a binding or the backing fabric.

I love the greens with the pink roses.

The next collection of fabrics have more of a blue green look.

And last but not least my collection of reproduction 30's fabrics.  There are lots of greens here, but less than a fat quarter of each color.  That is ok, as I plan to do something scrappy for the tree inspired challenge.

I think I have plenty of green fabrics to choose from.  I will dream about it tonight and ask my daughter to take a look at them too.  If I am making a green quilt, it might as well be for someone who loves green!

Yesterday and today, I did a little brain storming about the quilt.  I thought about using my Textures Quilt Pattern for the background.

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I also thought about making a wonky log cabin quilt.  That way I could blend several of the greens and blues together and use several strip sizes for the logs of the cabin.

I have a paper pieced pine tree that would be cool too.

I may dream up something completely different tonight!

Thanks for following along!
Marcia

Project Quilting Season SIX Starts Tomorrow!

I started participating and sponsoring Project Quilting in Season Two.

I created and completed 6 quilted projects each season, plus several of the Off Season Challenges.

I created a mosaic of my quilted projects from Seasons 2 to Season 5.

And I highlighted a few of my favorite quilts that were inspired by Project Quilting into a smaller mosaic.

Here is the link to the post called "Taking a Look Back at Season Two". I posted about how I create my quilted items in 15 minute time slots during the week.

This is a link to several posts about a couple of my off season challenges from 2014.

I continue to be inspired with creativity through my participation and sponsorship in the Project Quilting Challenges.  I invite everyone to join in the fun!

Project Quilting Season SIX begins tomorrow.  

Hop over to Persimon Dreams where Kim explains all about Project Quilting and how it works. Click HERE!

Project Quilting

Enjoy!

Marcia

Getting Up Close with My Quilting - Special Area Quilting

Today, I am sharing Kelly's Cox Comb Quilt. It is a paper pieced quilt with many curved seams.  The quilt was created with colorful batik fabrics.

Kelly selected six thread colors.

The "Special Area Quilting" was the perfect choice for the quilting.

I took several up close photos of the quilting at different angles.

The Cox Comb Quilt is a quilt pattern by Judy Niemeyer.  Kelly said Judy made it easy to stitch the curved seams.

Special Area Quilting enhances each section of the quilt. 

I flipped the quilt over so you can see the details of the quilting on the backside of the quilt.

Enjoy!
Marcia
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