Challenge Quilts

My local quilt guild has a Challenge Quilt event each year - usually more than one. Each small challenge quilt has to be a certain size and is based on a particular theme. Here are two Challenge quilts that I made recently. The theme of the quilt on the left was SEASONS and the theme for the quilt on the right was TRIANGLES.

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Genealogy Quilt

Years ago, I became interested in genealogy and tracing my family tree back as far as I could go on both sides of my family. In 2010, I made this "genealogy quilt" focusing on my mother, Irene. I made this small quilt to look like a desk blotter. Some of the things I included in this small quilt are pictures from her high school class, family pictures, census information about her and vintage postcards from the area in Vermont where she grew up. My mother passed away in 2014 at age 95. Genealogy Quilt #1

Full Moon Over Stonehenge

I made this small (12"x12") art quilt for the 2016 SAQA Benefit Auction . It's called, "Full Moon Over Stonehenge." I used a navy-blue speckled fabric for the night sky background. I bought some Stonehenge fabrics by Northcott that I used for the vertical sarsen stones and the horizontal lintel stone. The moon is a piece of very thin, silver lamé fabric, which I bonded to the background with Mistyfuse. Within the radiating quilting lines, I added some Swarovski crystals for stars. (It sold for $150.)

Alzheimer's Quilt

Auction quilt for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative I have just finished making a small donation quilt for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) founded by Ami Simms. Rules for making a donation quilt can be found on her web site. The address is: http://www.alzquilts.org/index.html Just click on the link on the left side for Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts to see the rules for submission of quilts. The information about my quilt #2755 is listed on the link below and a picture of my quilt should be posted any day now. The link for quilts waiting for assignment is: http://www.alzquilts.org/quwaas.html Quilts are auctioned off monthly. You can donate a quilt and bid on a quilt for sale to help support this worthy cause. The latest auction of quilts is found on this link: http://www.alzquilts.org/loatallqu.html Update 10/30/08: I recently learned that my quilt was purchased and that it earned $49.70 for AAQI. Not bad for a tiny quilt that's only 8...

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