Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Seattle MQG QuiltCon Charity Quilt: The Beginning

Things are a little myopic in the studio these days but for very good reason! Louise/@imfeelincrafty and I, as co-chairs of the Seattle MQG Giving Committee, are working at piecing the guild's QuiltCon Charity quilt.

Thankfully, many many guild members have already done alot of sewing for it. After Louise and I cut 18 yards(!) of fabric in all the colors of the given palette into 1" x 6" strips, we doled it out at one month's meeting, and at the next received back over 150 striped blocks



Louise and I split up the blocks, each setting to work cutting them into diamonds with 5" x 8" custom templates ordered from MakeATX.


Then.... it was on to piecing! Credit for our quilt design totally belongs to Louise. She's clever like that! 


So we're each working on piecing half of the large hexagon blocks. They measure 18" across from flat edge to flat edge. They make a statement don't they?


I've got six hexagons done so far, and about that many left to do. They're a little time consuming, sure, but I find them very captivating, y-seams and all!


So stay tuned. We're really excited how this one's coming together!

15 comments:

  1. This looks so awesome! I can't wait to see it progress. (In pictures of course, as Tennessee is a bit far for me!)

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  2. What an awesome design and I look forward to seeing how it comes together!

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  3. What a project, and what a fantastic result! My eye just travels over each hexagon blocks to investigate the colors. So fun!

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  4. Curious why you didn't use triangles so you wouldn't have all those y-seams. It looks awesome by the way!

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  5. It's gorgeous but I'm not sure anything's worth Y-seams!

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  6. This is so gorgeous and timely - my guild is swapping string blocks for a challenge next meeting, and I know I want to bring something modern to the finale! But definitely using triangles to avoid those Y-seams. ;)

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  7. this quilt is going to be amazing!

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  8. That looks really spectacular! I think I might have to split those diamonds down the middle (and add seam allowance) to turn them into triangles and avoid those dreaded y-seams. I love the color scheme and those lovely neutral sections.

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  9. I can't wait to see the finished quilt. It's going to be stunning.

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  10. That is beautiful. Nice work all of you!

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  11. Amazing!!! That's a ton of piecing and will be a fabulous quilt. We went with a much simpler concept with a lot less piecing. I finished the top just yesterday and it will be off for quilting soon I hope.

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  12. Loving it and looking forward to its progress. Makes me want to play with strips.

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  13. Wow, I love it! I can't wait to more. The colors are great.

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