Project quilting Season 14
Here is my entry for the Project Quilting Season 14 first challenge, or PQ14.1 for short. Artist Kim Lapacek, aka Persimon Dreams, sponsors Project Quilting. However, since she likes a surprise as much as the rest of us, the actual challenge is issued by her friend Trisha Frankland, aka Quilt Chicken. Both ladies possess a wealth of quilty knowledge to share, and their websites are pretty awesome.
The Rules
“Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline. Each piece must stand alone as DONE to count toward prizes.” (quoted directly from the source)
After your entry is finished, you add a link to your project on the challenge blog. There you can view entries from all the participants. Oh! You can also win prizes! As stated in the challenge: inspiration, quilting, and prizes! What could be better?
The one-week time frame is genius. It’s long enough to make something but too short to spend much time dithering around. I love that the rules require a finished piece! The quick turnaround time and the finished project requirement box me in just enough to get across the line of infinite possibilities to a completed piece. Too many of my creative ideas drift in the haze of possibility, so it’s gratifying to have one pop out into physical reality!
It’s finished! I did it! Yay for me!
The prompt for this challenge is that the project must somehow use the theme of one. My interpretation is the little one-patch mini quilt pictured above. I used one wedge pattern for all the patches, prints, and background pieces.
I like how it turned out. It reminds me of lava lamps or tiki torches. It has a funky 70s vibe that harkens back to a very different sensibility than what we find in the modern world. I know that’s a lot to ascribe to a little bit of patchwork, but there you go.
The background fabric is Kona Natural. All other fabrics are from my stash, and the origins are long forgotten. Wedges seem to be on my mind, as you can see below.
Social media has done so much to widen my quilting universe! Thanks to all those who use their quilting skills to challenge and inspire.
Thanks for reading! What’s inspiring you to be creative in your quilting practice?
This is really pretty. It reminds me of lava lamps.
I mentioned you great quilting skills to my sister. Today, she mentioned that she would love to have some of her husband’s shirts from when he was a young man made into a quilt. I suggested that when I retire I could learn how to quilt and that would be a project I could work on for her and him. What do you think?