Challenge Quilts, revisited

Sandy and I ran into each other twice today! This morning at a fabric sale where we both spent about the same amount :0) GMTA and again at Honey Run at Cathy's at Goldie's Weekend Sew In. She was sewing on binding and I was picking up quilts. Anyway, she had a pic of Kathy's challenge quilt plus more and sent them to me from her phone.

Challenge Quilt by Kathy T

Kathy actually made miniature quilts of quilts she has made! 

Plus some embellishments, machine embroidery and Sew Much More! 

Here is a better pic of Connie's challenge quilt

Yoga by Cassy L

and Brandie's again, these four were the top vote 'getters'

Too see more individual pix refer back to the first post...

The following is a recap of most. For the display, 

names were not included on the placard so as not to influence votes

and I don't know everyone in the guild (we have 200 members)

#1 The bird cage is made by Judy P. We had trouble finding her letter, 

it was an S which she made into the hook for the cage! Very clever Judy!

Redwork is by Michelle, one of the organizers

#4 The giraffe is made by my friend Sandy (Sandra E on my longarm blog)

 #11 Where the Wild Things Live by Pat

# 12 Audrey Hepburn by Brandie

# 13 Sorry, don't know the name, it is a self portrait and it's really good! 

Heidi by Grace C (an organizer)

 # 14 She was a nice girl by Jill R

# 15 Fender guitar with music by me :0)

#19 with bird cages is Kelly K. Both Kelly and and Judy's birdcages (above) were in memory of Maya Angelou

#17 Betty V made the spools of thread
(great FMQing!)

That's Kathy's in the upper right #18

Lower right is Bonnie C's, organizer

# 21 Sculls eating the moon is all Marilyn K!

Blood Splatter is Angie

# 22 Yoga is Cassy

# 26 Connie's Humming birds

# 27 is very clever, reading tea leaves. Our theme was to be about reading

Armchair with A Golden Book by Cindy G

 # 28 M is for Marriage by Shar

 # 30 The quilt with the blue sky is by Cathrine

(you don't want to know)

And on the chair is Gail's clock to tell us it's Quilting Time! Love it! 

Still missing one of the walls! because that's where Lynn's quilt was hanging...

 Along with Judy's Shoe Tree

 and a few others...

This is my second (and last) attempt to get all of them in one post!!!

One thing I can say, Annie's Star Quilt Guild has some pretty amazing quilters!

This is a pic of our wall of Community Quilts...

and that's not all of them

Enjoy your weekend! 

Groetjes, Jo

Challenge Quilts

Last night at Annie's Star Quilt Guild's December meeting was a potluck, cookie exchange, December Christmas block exchange but best of all... this year's Challenge Quilts were displayed along side piles of our Community Service quilts. My camera seemed to only focus on the Challenge quilts! and after reviewing them this morning discovered I missed one whole section!!! and it was the section with the #1 most voted entry was hanging. Silly me! It was a challenge to take pix dodging back and forth and in between on lookers, all of us making the very hard decision of voting for our favorites. All were amazing!

Black and White and Read All Over

Criteria... the size, 24 x 24, must include the letter and the black and white swatch of fabric provided in the gold tube we each received and in the theme of reading. Did not have to stay with the black and white.

Just realized I may have missed two sections! I am so fired! We did have allot of fun tho. Following dinner and the voting most of us took turns on the stage, at the podium with a mike (anyone that knows me, a biggie!) and talk about our project while Grace held our entry. Grace, Bonnie and Michelle each did such a wonderful job organizing and setting up the whole process. Thank you ladies!!! They also made a quilt but did not enter them in the voting, so nice and humble of them because they would have received many votes! Following are close ups of just a few...

by Connie A (out of focus :0(

One of the top vote getters (is that a word?;0)

Going for a Jacobean theme, love her borders. She told us how she removed the top and bottom borders and reoriented them after she finished quilting it! lol
A good decision altho allot of work! It really frames the quilt nicely! Well done Connie!

by Brandie C (ABC)

Great design and concept! as well as her amazing applique and machine quilting. Both Brandie and Connie are accomplished FMQ quilters!
Brandie's also fell into the top vote getters

As well as Kathy Thomas' quilt (not pictured) was #1

Kathy is new to our guild! She is also the person that purchased my Gammill. I've really enjoyed watching her grow as a quilter and is fast becoming very good! She left the meeting early as she has been ill, get better soon Kathy!

by Cassy and in the top four!
Congrats!!!

by Pat

This is so cute, as a grade school teacher Where the Wild Things Live was her favorite book to read to her students... Perfect! Well done!!!

A couple more of my favorites...

by my friend Sandra E

by Lynn P

 Marilyn K's Sugar Sculls
Marilyn has lots of scull fabric, the back was just as cool as the front!

Judy J's Shoe tree with her two dogs

Grace C's Heidi, she had the letter H

Michelle's beautiful Redwork

Bonnie and Grace with Bonnie's quilt. 

These two ladies are mother and daughter as well as two talented quilters!

All of us have learned so much from them over many years! Thank you again ladies!!!

One more added here, this is Gail's challenge quilt...

Off to the side because it is mounted/stretched onto a frame

with the mechanism to make it a real clock! Very clever and creative!

and last, the quilt I made for the challenge

Very much outside of my 'traditional box'! 

Made for my brother Paul who loves to read and play music, my letter was P. The Fender logo and guitar are both made to scale because my brother will know that! Other than the FQ for the background all made from scraps from my friend Donna. Every single piece of fabric has music on it to 'camouflage' the black and white piece of music fabric that was contained in my tube. It was fun altho I didn't allow myself time to completely finish it before the deadline. Embellishments like beads will be added for the knobs and tuning pegs on the guitar. Working on it the day it was turned in, I machine stitched the binding down instead of hand stitched and did a terrible job at that so that will be fixed too. Debating if I will hold off sending it to Paul until after our guild's quilt show next year, November 2015 or to send it off now. I can't wait for him to see it! Wish I could be there.
  

Enjoy your day and the weekend!

We have another day of rain! Yea!!! Glad we had a break from it yesterday leaving a woindow to move and set up all the quilts at last night's meeting. It's impressive to see all of the wonderful quilts our members make for Community Service.

Groetjes, Jo

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Native American Proverb

Challenge Quilt

Last night at Annie's Star Quilt Guild meeting was our deadline for turning in our Challenge Quilts. At next months meeting all of them will be displayed and voted on. I completed mine just an hour before leaving for the meeting, well mostly completed with plans to add some beads and more embellishments but a deadline is a deadline! I ended up sewing down the binding by machine, also not planned and not done well as I caught an edge on one side. With no time to fix it... off it went! Oh well, that's what happens when you wait until the last minute :0(

Pix of the completed project will be posted after December's guild meeting. For now a hint and a pic of what is left of the provided piece of fabric that had to be included. 

Other than one Fat Quarter, all of the fabrics I used where scraps from a quilt that my friend Donna made. That was a challenge in itself! It was fun to get outside of my traditional box, dust off a package of fusible and create an art quilt! Another hint is this quilt honors my disabled brother and will be gifted to him once we complete the challenge and quilt show. Pix next month following our December 4th meeting! 

Janie is in Hawaii for a family reunion so her Amaretto Cottage project is on hold. The challenge quilt has been on my quilting agenda and now its time to regroup and set some goals for November, this weekend. For today, it's back to customer quilts, mom and checking in with last night's speaker, Sandy Klop of American Jane Patterns. 

Wonderful presentation and trunk show last night. Sandy has a pattern company and is a fabric designer for Moda. I highly recommend her for her professionalism, it's been a pleasure to work with her and her company. Being treasurer I didn't get a chance to paruse her beautiful fabrics and patterns. The tables were packed with members anyway so I am looking forward to meeting with her at the workshop taking place today at Honey Run Quilters @ Cathy's. Wishing I could have signed up for this one, Brandie did and it will be fun to see what wonderful quilt she makes today!

TGIF :0)

Groetjes, Jo