Craving Chocolate - Project Quilting challenge 10.6

Another season of Project Quilting is about to come to an end.  Our final challenge was to make something with "Craving Chocolate" as our inspiration.  

While working through some ideas in my head, I remembered a trip Tom and I took about ten years ago to Hershey, Pennsylvania.  As you may imagine the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Hershey Chocolate Factory!  Sadly they no longer offer tours through the actual factory, but we enjoyed exploring their "Chocolate World".

This is a photo I took during that visit.  I printed it on fabric and turned it into a mug rug.  Working on this little quilt really did fit the theme since by the time I was done, I did crave chocolate and had to break into my emergency supply.  :-)

Chocolate World

Size:  approximately 9" x 7"

I create in Casa Grande

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Project Quilting - Craving Chocolate

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Abecedarius - Project Quilting challenge 10.5

For our latest project quilting challenge, we were asked to be inspired by the word "Abecedarius" which mean alphabet primer.  Since I have a new great nephew, Liam, that I've been wanting to make something for, this was the perfect opportunity.

Liam is only 3 months old now, but I wanted something he could continue to use and hopefully love into toddlerhood and beyond so I made this a bit larger than a typical baby blanket.  It is about 48" square.

Here are a few close up pictures of some of the individual blocks, after fusing them to the background but before stitching them down.

L is for Liam

Size:  approximately 48" x 48"

I create in Casa Grande

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Project Quilting - Abecedarius

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