Building a Village

Audrey @cottonandbourbon had been hinting for several days that a special announcement was coming soon, while showing off her latest pattern, a modified courthouse steps block. Then yesterday, the announcement came.... Audrey wanted to host a group quilt entry for QuiltCon 2027, built, of course, of Building a Village quilt blocks.

Obviously, I joined right in by nabbing a free copy of the block pattern on Audrey's site, and didn't waste any time making my block. 

Audrey will make her quilt with the first 100 blocks that arrive to her, so if you're interested, do join in. The block is paper-pieced, just 8" square, and comes with excellent instructions. Hope some of you feel inclined to join in too!

Modern Potholder Group Quilt

When Linda Hungerford @flourishingpalms emailed me about possibly joining in to make a Modern Potholder Group Quilt, I was intrigued. I'd never heard of a potholder quilt before, but Linda had learned a lot about the unique process from a potholder quilt tutorial by Wendy Caton Reed @theconstantquilter. Linda explained what she was looking for, and I told her I was game.

Linda had chosen a palette of Painter's Palette solids by Paintbrush Studios - Pewter, Banana, Sulphur, Aruba, Bright Aqua, and Agave. I purchased a couple of cuts, and Linda also sent me pieces of other colors. 

The basic assignment was to make two blocks, an improv-pieced one 6.5" x 12.5", and a one-color block 6.5" square. We were asked to make quilt sandwiches using Quilter's Dream Request batting, backing each with a whole piece of one of the colored (not gray) fabrics. I ended up using all six colors between the fronts and backs of my two blocks.

Then, we were to big-stitch quilt the blocks using white #8 perle cotton. Stay-stitching around our finished blocks was the final step before mailing them off to her,

Well that was interesting and fun! I enjoyed participating in Linda's effort to make a modern potholder quilt. Linda will be binding all the blocks she received and then hand-stitching to join the blocks together. Can't wait to see more as things progress!