Hourglass Quilt Block Cards - Project Quilting

 

Hourglass quilt square cards, 4" x 6", made by Pam Geisel for Project Quilting, Season 15, Challenge 4: Hourglass

Recap for "Hourglass":

You must use an hourglass SHAPE in your project, but you do not have to use the exact hourglass BLOCK.

It's a busy week; between work and a custom quilt, and an upcoming workshop, I knew it was going to have to be a small project. I was interested in how the Hourglass quilt block would work with a striped fabric and the only stripe from my stash that spoke to me this week was a rainbow stripe. 

I used the Scrapish.com Hourglass tutorial which is very easy and yields two complete squares, although that meant one of the stripes was going horizontal (which was what I was envisioning) and the other has the stripes going vertical (and also lining up) which I think helps reinforce the concept of an hourglass. I used the rainbow dot fabric because I thought it was fun: it was a complement to the colors in the stripe but a contrast in the shapes.

For this week I made four quilt block square cards. Usually the quilt squares that I make for my cards are either Pinwheel variations, Nine Patch, or occasionally Four Patch, but I think I will make more of the Hourglass squares using stripes.

Be sure to check out the other creative interpretations on the Hourglass block at the Project Quilting page.

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In the Garden of My Heart - Project Quilting

 

"The Garden of My Heart" 16" x 9", made by Pam Geisel for Project Quilting, Season 15, Challenge 3: Inside Out

Recap for "Inside Out": 

Some part of your project must thematically or literally be inside out.

As I was thinking about this challenge, I remembered my art quilt "Life is Like a Box of Chocolates," where I took a quilt that was already quilted and cut it into 5" squares and machine raw-edge appliqued those squares to the background in a different arrangement leaving the batting visible on the sides. I also remembered that I had a piece that I'd started for Project Quilting's 2015 "Focus Through the Prism" challenges that was pieced and quilted but didn't work out the way I wanted to, so I cut it up and made some quilted postcards for later Project Quilting Challenges including two Modern Art Postcards and two 3D Flying Geese pieces that ended up being framed.

I was down to just a few pieces but I was able to cut out five hearts (sorry, it's hard to see the hearts that I traced on to cut around).

So this is two ways this piece is "Inside Out" because the hearts were previously quilted with batting, the batting shows around the edges and because the heart is an organ that's supposed to be on the inside.

To keep with the inside out theme, some of the pink fabrics piece for the background show the wrong side of the fabric (a technique I utilized back in season 2 with "Sometimes I Dream of Flying" because I didn't have enough green options...and a side note, I once bought a commercially made sundress partially because it had the wrong side of the fabric facing out). I also created the quilt backwards by quilting and binding with a facing before I started adding the flower hearts on the stems.

Here you can see the batting at the edge of the heart.

There's a yellow/green/blue variegated ribbon sewn on top of the stems and also framing the piece. Green heart-shaped are used for the leaves, and there are also two pink heart-shaped buttons on two of the flowers, and four smaller red heart-shaped buttons in the four corners.

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