Friday, January 9, 2015

WMQG Charity Quilt Challenge

WMQG I recieved email confirmation that our charity challenge quilt is in Austin!
 Thanks to everyone who participated in this challenge! It was fun and interesting.
 When we were tossing ideas about, Becca had the great idea of using the Sedgwick county map as our guide for our quilt. The map was a grid, but by color-identifying each town in the county, it gave our quilt an "alternative grid"- which is what we were challenged to do!  By looking at the quilt, you do not realize it is a map of our county, unless you know what you are looking at. Using the colors designated by MQG, we were able to put some "pop" into our quilt. 
 Leah and Julie turned the county map into block patterns. Julie cut all the fabrics for the blocks into kits, and Becca distributed the kits to our members who were willing to sew the blocks. We met after the December meeting with several people to sew the blocks into a quilt. Jo did her quilting magic on the layers, and Becca put the binding and hanging sleeve on. With the label added, the quilt was packaged and on it's way to Austin! See below for a few pictures of the layout process, the finished quilt, and the quilting. I can't wait to see it at QUILTCON!

I will work on the photos.....