Giving Quilt

I've held off sharing this quilt hoping I'd find out more about the maker and design, but several weeks have gone by and I've learned nothing, so since it was something I used stashed fabric on, and counted in May's Fabric Usage, I figured I might as well go ahead and share it. 

The quilt top was rescued off the Seattle MQG retreat free table by Amber @greenamberdawn, then longarm quilted by Jana @janalroyal. Besides to these two guild members, credit also goes to guild Giving Quilt chair Linda Teri, who passed the quilt off to me for binding, suggesting "contrast would be good."

Perfect! I was free to choose binding fabric from my own stash, and used a fun pink on pink dot to finish the quilt, which measured 60" x 72". I'll return the quilt to Linda at our June meeting for labeling and donating. This year, the guild is donating to Kenmore Senior Women’s Shelter, YWCA Pathways for Women, and Westside Baby, so the quilt will go to one of those organizations. Glad I could help make it happen.

ETA: THANK YOU to Wanda @exuberantcolor for identifying the quilt pattern for me! It's Pixie Stix from Strip Your Stash by Gudrun Erla @gedesignsgudrun. Whew. One piece of the puzzle solved.

Improv Quarter Log Cabin Block

So my friend Louise/I'm Feelin' Crafty and I are the new SeaMQG Giving Committee chairs, and we have come up with a tentative plan for the year. For our first group quilt, we're making use of some black and white printed fabric contributed last year. Packets of fabric were available at our February meeting, but we're encouraging folks to sew from stash too. Just in case any of you would like the tutorial, just click here. (It'll also be under my Tutorials tab here on the blog.)

We were inspired by this pillow made by [theqiofquilting] on Instagram. Isn't it striking?

Photo by theqiofquilting; used by permission.

And several blocks have already been handed in!

So that's the plan! Hopefully you'll be seeing more blocks under the Instagram hashtags #seamqggiving and #seamqg. And if you try some, feel free to tag them #improvquarterlogcabinblock. They're kinda fun!