June updates

This is the Saffron 4-Patch that I finished in April. I submitted it to a fabric store for their in-house quilt show, where it hung for the month of May. It didn't win anything, but I wasn't really in it for the prizes--I just wanted to participate. It measures approximately 100" square.
I created this circular motif based on a linear quilting motif for longarms. There was a lot of cutting and pasting and photocopying to get it symmetrical and looking right.

This outside border was a very intensive and required a lot of bobbin thread changes, but it was SO worth it!

I also worked on a quilt for the Small Potatoes Gleaning Project, which is a non-profit organization that does a second harvest on fields, collecting odd shaped and "ugly" but edible fruits and vegetables for homeless shelters and food banks in Whatcom County. It's an awesome organization, and I'm happy to have donated my services to them.

Here's a detail of the blocks--I did the same quilting on this one as I did on Marilynn's Stack and Slash 9 Patch (below), a sort of free-form hearts motif. It's very fast and fun, but isn't a predictable pantograph pattern and can be modified to fill a space.

Marilynn's Bright Stack & Slash 9-patch and detail of the free-form hearts motif.

And lastly, for this post, at least, a detail of the Civil War Commemorative Quilt, made by me in the "Underground Railroad Sampler", the class I taught for Eleanor Burns' book in 2004. I quilted each block differently--this one turned out the nicest, I think!

Enjoy!

Karen, the Merrie Quilter