Quilt Show 2015 – What could be more Canadian than the maple leaf and log cabins?

This was my response to the 2014-2015 Guild challenge. We were given two charm squares, one red and one white. We could do whatever we wanted with them, but the finished product was limited to 22″.

With red and white fabric and a Canadian theme there seemed little choice but to start with the Canadian flag (which turned 50 years old this year). I’ve never made a log cabin quilt, but the theme lent itself to the idea.

I used a template to quilt maple leaves throughout the piece.

UPDATE: This went to Kathryn

The quilt pattern and fabrics were available as a kit from one of the vendors at our Guild’s 2013 Quilt Show. I knew our friends Trent and Dedrie were newly expecting but the kits were definitely put together with either a boy or girl in mind.  I purchased the pattern on its own, and then picked several fat quarters in babyish patterns and colours.

Barb McCormack from the Guild showed me how to stack my fabric and cut several identical pieces at the same time. This saved hours of work. Pat, my partner and colour-blind colour advisor, helped arrange the blocks. Lainey and Trevor at Galena Bay Fabrics helped pick out a border that didn’t match anything, but somehow seems to work. I made use of Alice McCallum’s tip on cutting border pieces just a bit wider than the finished size so they can be trimmed down. My sisters, Stacia and Deloise, taught me the framed border technique. I also copied a quilting pattern Shirley Houle (another Guild member) had used on one of her quilts.

I made a number of these bowls as gifts for Christmas in 2013. I also sold a number of them at the Craft Fair I participated in during the fall.

 
 I added matching placemats to some of the bowls.

Quilt Show 2015 – This past Christmas I participated in an on-line quilt along from the Temecula Quilt Company. Every other day we were given instructions for a 3” finished block; each block included a clue to a mystery hidden within the quilt. Can you solve that mystery? Machine quilted on my home machine.

I’m a regular reader of the Temecula Quilt Company blog and in December, 2014 they ran this Christmas mystery project. The instructions were for a three inch block and the patterns came about every other day. It seemed manageable so I decided to join. Although I didn’t always get the block finished on the day the instructions arrived, and it wasn’t finished for display at Christmas, I got it done for the quilt show. The project is made entirely from my scraps.

I thought the mystery was that I didn’t know what it would look like until all the blocks were finished, but the mystery was that each block posted contained the same number of pieces as the order they were posted. For example, Day 1 was a single square, Day 12 used twelve different pieces.