The 2020 Color Challenge came to a wrap in the most amazing way. Jen from Patterns by Jen designed "Pixelated" for setting our blocks.
Let's start by taking a look at my twelve blocks from 2020.
The 2020 Color Challenge came to a wrap in the most amazing way. Jen from Patterns by Jen designed "Pixelated" for setting our blocks.
Let's start by taking a look at my twelve blocks from 2020.
A close family friend put in a special request for her daughter's birthday this month. I took the plunge on something I had never created before - a t-shirt quilt!
...loose guidelines on patterns for coordinating fabrics...
These were mom's very loose suggestions for fabric pattern starting points.
...and overall quilt design freedom. Excitement comfortably settled in - at first - as I received the shirts during the middle of gardening season giving me plenty of time to complete the quilt.
Then, life happened. The garden was more plentiful than we could have hoped leading to very long days my EDS body would not tolerate for the duration. My day job as a childcare professional at a local center being a lead teacher in the infant room (where I was also tasked with additional duties that required my time and attention after work) was more than enough to wear me down. What portions of this project can, and should, I tackle at the end of my work days and on the weekends - and in what order?
I would sneak in tidbits of time to look up coordinating fabrics...
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Thank you for stopping by and reading. I look forward to sharing the finished quilt!
Keep on quilting!
Fawn
It has been a busy fall at work after a similarly busy summer in the garden. Getting to my sewing machine has proven to be challenging. Having the time to get caught up on my missing months blocks this weekend was so enjoyable.
With three previous blocks to complete - August, September, and November - and being a blogger for the December block and final quilt (cannot wait to share those with everyone), I dove right in to those beautiful batiks tackling August first.
The original August block called for light and dark pink. I substituted a the light pink for a blended batik that had light pinks swirled about in its design. My favorite part of this particular block is knowing Jen's love of flamingos and that the solid pink portion of my block stands out like flamingo heads walking about in their flocks. Brilliant!
Up next was the beautiful cinnamon colors for September. Like the August block, this was easy to assemble. The dark reddish-brown contrasting with the light in this block in such a wonderful way that I am eager to see the multitude of colors in the full quilt come together.
Last was tackling the current November block. Working with colors is much easier for me than working with neutrals. November's block is light and dark buff based on the buff-breasted sandpiper, which are neutrals through and through. Finding the fabric for this block was a struggle as I needed to make sure the colors stayed buff without going brown, yet you could have enough contrast to tell light from dark. I looked up pictures of the sandpiper to take shopping on my search for suitable fabrics. My dark fabric appears brown from a distance, but when you get up close, the darker shade of buff can be seen mixed with a light shade of brown.