"Glorious Leaves of Autumn", 20.5" x 26.5"
The theme for the Miami Valley Quilters Guild
2011 Challenge was “Glorious.” Each
participant received a fat quarter of a yellow-gold cotton and a fat eighth of
gold lamé. The rules were:
1. Must use at least half each of the fabrics
given
2. Must be a wall-sized quilt, minimum 12” x
12”
3. Can add up to 10 additional fabrics
4. One quarter of the quilt must be pieced
5. Must include at least one 3-dimentional embellishment
Normally I like challenges. Sometimes when you
are limited in what you can use or how you have to use it you might
be prompted to think "outside of the box" more.
This one really 'challenged' me. I
think it was the “one quarter of the quilt must be pieced” which is odd because
most of my quilts are more than one quarter pieced. But almost every idea I
came up with was mostly appliqué.
Of course I procrastinated on this
project until a few days before it was due. Since the weather was changing and
the temperatures were getting cooler, I was looking forward to changing colors
of the leaves. I found a piece of fabric in my stash that had beautiful autumn
leaves and even had some metallic gold printed on it that I thought would go
well with the gold lamé fabric.
I did see in a blog that another member
mentioned that it’s easier to work with the lamé if you add stabilizer to it,
so I did that and didn’t have any problems. The gold lamé was used as sashing between the
blocks and as a thin inner border around the blocks. I couched some brown yarn
on top of the lamé.
The yellow gold cotton was used as an
additional inner border with corner blocks of dark brown. I used the autumn
leaf fabric as the outer border. I added two beads on top of the yarn where the
gold lame intersected itself.
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The quilt on the left is by Maria
Elkins and you can read about how she made it on her blog. (The posts start with the newest so scroll to the bottom and read the posts in reverse order.)