I made this Sudoku quilt for my friend Deb, who started the Pay It Forward challenge on Facebook. Deb (and her husband Paul) were among the first people we met when we moved to Powell River. Deb is very involved in the community and I see her at all sorts of events.
I enjoyed picking out a puzzle from the diabolical section of the book and then converting the puzzle into fabrics.
Do you do Sudoku Deb?
I finished this block while working as the hostess at a Guild workshop – between making coffee and tea and running errands for the teacher.
This was a completely new technique for me. I’ve seen folks working on small pieces with something stuck inside but never knew what they were doing. Now that I know I can join the club. I wouldn’t make these particular blocks again, but I there are other interesting patterns out there using this method.
I used a cereal box to make the templates for this first block. They kept the shape very well, but the cardboard was difficult to baste through. The templates were strong enough that they can be used many times.
I used cardstock to make the templates for this block. Although they were much easier to baste through, I’m not sure they held the shape as well. Or perhaps my original template was a bit wonky.
This project was the result of a mystery quilt weekend sponsored by the Timberlane Quilt Guild. We were told to purchase fabric in a light, medium and dark tone. I looked at many of the fabrics that Lainey had on her clearance shelf and, of all the ones I looked at, only the rosebud material seemed suitable as my light fabric. Based on that fabric, I picked my medium and dark tones. It was a toss-up but in the end the pink became the medium and the green became the dark.
There was a lot of cutting involved and that was all done before we met as a group on the first day.
We were handed the instructions, one step at a time, and at the end of the first day I still had no clue about how the quilt would end up looking. On the second day, as the faster sewists finished their blocks and started putting them together, I was able to get an idea of the design. But everyone had completely different fabric so I still wasn’t sure how mine would look when it was complete.
Once the top was done the Tuesday morning ladies suggested adding a zinger of pink and a border of green. I finished the project at home over several weeks. I outlined the stars in a straight-line stitch and chose a template for quilting in the larger squares.
For my binding, I picked a pink that was a shade darker that the fabric in the quilt.
UPDATE: This quilt went to Kathryn