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

click the link and then scroll down the page to find the entries