Sunday, March 19, 2017

Project Quilting, Challenge 6 - Time is Up

It's the final challenge for Season 8 of Project Quilting: Time is Up, hosted by Persimmon Dreams.

Like buttons through an hourglass...time flies.


This is 7.75 by 14 inches. Machine pieced, the red is machine quilted. Buttons are from the EXTENSIVE stash! I'm calling it "Time in a Button."

Sunday, March 05, 2017

Well-Dressed Man–Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING Season 8

I don't think that a man needs  to wear a tie to be well-dressed - but sometimes a well-dressed man wears a tie.  And sometimes that tie is a bow tie.

I made this little block quilt for Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING  over at Kim Lapacek's Persimmon Dreams. Overall size is six inches square. The body is some suiting fabric I found in the stash. And if you're going to do a bow tie, it might as well be paisley!



I'm sure people already do this - but when I was fiddling with a folded square to make sure I'd have the right size  triangle for the knot of the bow tie, I discovered that I could just fold it and sew it in! It gives the bow tie a little bit of dimension.