As part of my book, I want to show people how to work together as a group designing a quilt. So, I have a couple of projects that highlight a couple of ways of doing that. The first group project is all finished and counts as my last finish of 2018.
I had some amazing people contributed. A big thank you to all those that volunteered.
Lynne @monkeyneedle
Paige @quiltedblooms
Tania @iamgingerq
Nicole @mamalovequilts
Sophie @lunalovequilts
Jenn @jennrodriguez1
Melissa @meliherboth
Louise @imfeelincrafty
Valerie @valbetweenquilts
Rebecca @creativeblockquilts
Abigail @cutandalter
Sharon @sharonhollanddesigns
Check out who made what on my instagram feed (@ml_wilkie).
Once I received the blocks I decided that I did not want them all straight and very grid like, and wanted to add some wonkiness. This was accomplished with the sashing between blocks. The other thing I decided I wanted to do was add a color key of the palette used in the quilt. This was accomplished with the flying geese addition on the bottom right.
I had decided early on that most of my quilts for my book, I will be paying for someone else to quilt. It is not my favorite part and if I waited for me to quilt them all, we would never be finished. Luckily, in the quilting community there are lots of people who love this part of quilting. Krishma (from @krishmaquilts) is one such person and does amazing work. I have watched Krishma on social media grow over the last few years and her quilting skills are impressive. I asked her to quilt this one for me. She did an amazing job.
Lastly, the binding I added was to ground and frame the quilt. Navy blue was an obvious choice, however, this particular C+S print was perfect. I loved the grid look but the small surprises were in the colors that matched the quilt…white and pink/coral. A perfect finish.
Details
Name : ??? still needs a name – open to suggestions.
Design: Design as a group
Fabric: Defined color palette use of solids and prints; whatever was in stash
Binding: C+S
Dimensions:
Quilted: By Krishma from Krishma Quilts
The quilt is done but I don’t have a name for it. If you have any ideas, please leave a comment?
Factotum of Arts 
I really like the “color key” that you incorporated!
Good Morning! What a great post. First of all, congrats on making progress on your book. And, what a fabulous idea you came up with. I absolutely love how you added a bit of whimsy by the wonky sashing. Maybe there’s a name for you – wonky whimsy. Anyway, I also LOVE the addition of the flying geese doing double duty as a color key. Fabulous! Time to do some PINing, too. ~smile~ Roseanne
Michelle
The Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum in Carrollton Ga has your quilt on display with Collection A of the Modern Quilt Guild Exhibit. It opens Thurs Feb 7 and runs until last Sat in April. We are open Thurs, Fri and Sat. But we would be delighted to meet you there by appt
See website or call me 770-537-7206
I am just seeing this post, Michelle! Thank you so much for the kind words. I so enjoyed quilting this piece ❤️