Introducing the Challenge Quilt

As most, if not all, of you know one of the things I do in my spare time is quilt. Some of you may even have a quilted thing or two. While I have known quilters, have gone to way too many quilt shops (both physically and virtually), have taught quilting, etc., incredibly, I have never joined a quilting guild (a club for quilters). Last year, the local quilt shop closed which somewhat dried up my opportunity to interact with fellow quilters. I finally and very recently joined the local quilting guild. It has been fun, although these ladies eat way too much!!!

At any rate, out of this guild joining thing came a new project (like I need another one). It is a Challenge Quilt – you are given some fabric with directions to make something out of it. The fabric is posted here - the directions are:

• Goal: make a quilt (miniature ok) or a quilted garment. No tote bags, sewing kits, etc.
• Time: Return finished item in a brown paper bag to the Oct 7th meeting. Do not put name of quiltmaker on item yet...ok to put name on bag (?)
• Rules:
• All challenge fabric must be visible and used on front of item
• Add any amount of other fabric you wish
• You can buy more challenge fabric from the store: Patchwork Cat in Benicia.
• I added one additional personal challenge – I cannot buy any new fabric for this quilt…YEEPS!

Since “AI” does not start for a while, I thought I would take you all on a short reality show journey from challenge to outcome. The outcome, as you can see from the directions, takes place at the meeting on 10/7 (so, fear not all ye with short attention spans, the end is not far off) where all of the challenge quilts will be presented and, if not judged, at least compared.

Are you asking yourself....

1. does she have enough fabric to pull it off....hahahahahahahaha
2. does she know what she is doing....not usuall
3. is she a stitch short of a seam...undoubtedlyabsolutelycompletely…what was the question?

So stay tuned for continuing episodes - no promises on frequency or regularity (is there ever?) - but expect some color, texture and excitement!!!!

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