Team Colors - Project Quilting challenge 11.2

The newest PQ challenge theme - Team Colors - was announced this past Sunday, the very same day the San Francisco 49ers became the 2020 NFC champions and earned their place at this year's Super Bowl.  Pretty much anyone who knows me is aware I’m a lifelong 49ers fan. So of course my team colors challenge project had to feature red and gold.

We will be hosting a small gathering at our house on Super Bowl Sunday so I decided I’d make a table runner for the occasion. And since I’ve always wanted to try a bargello quilt, I thought this would be a good time to attempt it.

I used Angela Walters’ Modern Bargello pattern as my jumping off point and modified it a bit to fit my vision.

After the top was pieced, I struggled a bit trying to find a quilting thread that worked with all of the high contrast colors in my quilt. I got some good suggestions from the brilliant and creative quilters in the Facebook Challenge Quilt group but soon realized I wouldn’t have time for any ambitious quilting on this project. So I ultimately decided to go with matching thread on each of the fabrics and used a simple continuous curve pattern.  It’s a quick and easy quilting motif with the added bonus of creating some football(ish) shapes within the design.

I’m calling this piece

Super Bowl Bound

Size:  approximately 20" x 47"

I create in Casa Grande,
Arizona

Check out all of the entries for this challenge at 

Project Quilting - Team Colors

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Notably Numeric - Project Quilting challenge 11.1

A new year and a new season for Project Quilting.  The first challenge theme is Notably Numeric.  Our project must feature numbers, counting, or mathematics in its theme or implementation. 


I chose to make a visual representation of the "Rule of Three" along with the "Rule of Thirds".

These are both design concepts common in many/most artistic genres. 

Simply stated, the Rule of Three is based on the idea that three objects are more pleasing to the eye than one, two or four. 
   
The Rule of Thirds is a composition technique where a design is divided into thirds either vertically, horizontally or both.  The focal points of the design are then placed along one of those lines or at any of the intersections.

In this image, the sky and ground are split 2/3 to 1/3.  The main focal point (the saguaro cactus) is placed approximately at the 1/3 line vertically.  Three cacti are featured and each cactus has three branches/arms. 

So I'm calling this 

3 1/3

(or Three and a Third)

Size:  approximately 9" x 6"

I create in Casa Grande,
Arizona

Check out all of the entries for this challenge at 

Project Quilting - Notably Numeric

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Show Me Something Purple

Sarah Goer of Sarah Goer Quilts has introduced a new challenge of sorts on her blog.  She will be introducing a new theme each month and we can link up photos of projects we make specifically for the challenge, or work we completed in the past that fits the theme.

For this first month she asks us to "Show Me Something Purple".  I may yet create something just for this challenge, but since I already had something that fit, I thought I'd lead with that.

This is my "Fairy Quilt Godmother" Ribbonluria.  She is paper pieced from a pattern I found on the Paper Panache website.  There are endless variations of the Fairy Quilt Godmother pattern, all of which are fun and fabulous.  I encourage you to create your own.  You can find the pattern here