Project Quilting Season 9 Challenge 9.1

For years I have been reading about and watching the activities of Kim Lapacek over at Persimmon Dreams. She is a local gal who has her fingers dabbling in multiple adventures. One of her many ongoing events is the one she calls Project Quilting. Kim recently launched Season 9 with a new set of challenges. The first one is called Challenge 9.1 Home Town Proud.

After sitting in the observation box for far too many years I have decided to give it a try. Chosen for my inspiration is the Rotary Gardens in Janesville, Wisconsin. I have been a volunteer and admirer of these gardens for many years. The spectacular display of color and artistry is evident from the time you enter the gate and throughout the entire grounds. Being a huge lover of flowers and their rainbow of colors, it only seemed natural to choose Rotary Gardens for the focus of this piece.

To begin my quilt I first had to think about the design and the colors I would use. My love of bright and wild colors certainly had to play a role as well. While thinking about the design I remembered Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s book 15 Minutes of PlayBack in December I announced my intention to use that book in a series I’m calling 32 Projects.

http://inastitchquilting.com/category/32-projects/

As I browsed through the “32” I found one that reminded me of a flower. Being able to “kill two birds with one stone” seemed like an awesome idea. The block I chose is the Sawtooth Square.

The primary fabrics I chose were these

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Using the instructions in Victoria’s book I was able to create this 18 1/4″ x 18 1/4″ mini quilt.

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PQ-Season 9, Challenge 9.1 Flower Garden

The back of my quilt looks like this

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My first Project Quilting challenge piece is now finished! I had a great time creating my new piece. I hope you like it as well!

Thank you so much for sharing your time with me! See you soon!

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28 thoughts on “Project Quilting Season 9 Challenge 9.1

  1. Beautiful piece! I’m so happy you entered into the PQ Challenge. And it’s always so awesome when you can combine two (or more) challenges into one!!! Lovely job!

  2. You will love participating in Project Quilting by pushing yourself with new things. Your little quilt is beautiful and congrats on combining it with your own personal challenge. Two things marked off the list, check!

  3. I love the colors (you have a wonderful sense of color), the design and the sweet little flower button! Nice! Maybe it is time you opened an Etsy shop to sell your collection of little art wallhangings 🙂

    1. Tierney, thank you so much for the sweet compliments! I love working with color! I thought about it but didn’t get a good feeling about Etsy after reading yours and other vendors experiences. 🙂

      1. If you change your opinion or have pointers, send me a private message. On my website is definitely something to think about. Thanks for all your suggestions! 🙂

    1. It is and if I had thought about what I sad I could have written…”two birds with one quilt.” LOL! Sounds better! Thank you for your compliment. I’m glad you liked it. I used a Pigma 08. What do you use? 🙂

  4. Hi Cindy,
    I just saw this challenge and the website this morning for the first time! I had it open to look at and we lost power – I couldn’t remember what the name of the website was. How fortunate that you are mentioning this today of all days!! I hear it is like Project Runway for quilting . . . I HAVE to read more about this. How fun and of course I like your piece. The colors are so nice and warm for the cold weather that returns tomorrow, and it very much resembles a sunflower to me. ~smile~ Roseanne

    1. It always amazes me when things happen like that. We live in such a small world. Sunflowers are one of my all-time favorite flowers so it makes me smile that you would say that! Your thoughtful comment is very much appreciated. Please do check it out. 🙂

  5. Great idea to combine two things that work so well together. It’s always good when we can make the same minutes count twice! It’s a lovely piece, and I can see the garden influence. 1/32 finished!

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