Peaceful Ocean Waves Baby Quilt - Project Quilting

"Peaceful Ocean Waves," 32" x 32", made by Pam Geisel for Project Quilting, Season 9, Challenge 2: Traingulation, Jan. 2018 in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Challenge recap for "Triangulation":

Your project should be (as much as possible) primarily made from and characterized by triangle shapes.

I made this baby quilt using Island Batik fabrics cut into half square triangles in bright greens, blues, and purples. It is quilted with a bright blue thread stitch-in-the-ditch along the diagonal lines.

The backing is a bright blue and green batik with peace signs on it, which is why I named it "Peaceful Ocean Waves" instead of just "Ocean Waves."

More about Peaceful Ocean Waves.

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To read more about Project Quilting, go here.

To see other entries for this challenge, visit the Triangulation link up.

Yellow Springs Yarn Bomb - Project Quilting

"Yellow Springs Yarn Bomb," art is 4" x 6" in a 7" x 9" (exterior measurements) frame, made by Pam Geisel for Project Quilting, Season 9, Challenge 1: Hometown Proud, Jan. 2018 in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Challenge recap for "Hometown Proud":

Be inspired by the best of you community – what makes your town special?

There are a lot of things that make our little village of Yellow Springs special, but what makes it special to me is the amount of art:

  - art galleries

  - artist co-ops (including Village Artisans, which I'm a member of)

  - an arts council

  - restaurants that display art on a rotating basis 

  - the Sunrise Cafe with murals that covers all of their interior walls 

  - seemingly random outdoor public art including our yarn bombings

To create this piece I fused some brown pieces of fabric (the tree) to a hand dyed blue background then I did zigzag stitches (as wide as my machine would go) to make the "yarn" on the tree. I probably spent more time changing the thread and bobbin colors than I did sewing the yarn.

Then I did a small free motion meander quilting around the tree and put it in a cool wood frame.

In the photo at the top of the page, the two ceramic pieces were made by other Yellow Springs artists. The pot on the left was made by Geno Luketic and the little bird was made by Carol Culbertson.

More about Yellow Springs Yarn Bomb

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To read more about Project Quilting, go here.

To see other entries for this challenge, visit the Hometown Proud link up.

Project Quilting Season 9

It's time for Project Quilting's ninth season! It's a three month on-line event that challenges participants to create a quilt in one week, with a week off in between. You can participate in as few or as many as you like. Participants are automatically entered into random prize drawings and at the end of the season there will be grand prizes awarded to all participants, with one entry per challenge quilt, so the more challenges you enter, the better your chances.

I've participated in every year in some form or another (and I was the overall grand prize winner of Season 2). Some of my favorite quilts that I've made were Project Quilting challenges.

The schedule for 2018 is:
Challenge 1: January 7
Challenge 2: January 21
Challenge 3: February 4
Challenge 4: February 18
Challenge 5: March 4
Challenge 6: March 18

Each challenge is posted at noon CDT and due exactly one week later at noon CDT.

Here's a post with some tips about how to participate.

The challenge will be posted on the "Persimon Dreams" Project Quilting blog and you can also find links about past seasons there.