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Riley Blake MQG Challenge – Fabric Choices

So, now that the design is complete, and I am going with the theme of ” A Fine Day”, the next step was choosing the fabric. Yes, it did mean I bought up some extra Riley Blake prints 🙂

Sunrise (Mustards, Oranges)

Mid-day (Yellows, Teals)

Sunset (Purples, Pinks)

Evenings (Blues, Grey, Black)

Now onto the cutting, and making the improv blocks. Linking up with Fiona @ Finding Fifth for Sunday Stash.

Riley Blake MQG Challenge – Design complete

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Have you seen the Riley Blake Modern Quilt Guild Challenge?? Our guild handed out fabric sometime in October. I have only started now, and until now I had no idea what I was going to do.

Here are the fabrics (picture from MQG page):

The Navy gingham, Hipster Orange, Yellow Polka dots and the Aqua/Teal zig-zag fabrics made me think of different phases of a fine day.

Sunrise: Yellows + Oranges
Mid-day: Yellows + bright blues
Sunset: Purples + Pinks
Evening: Navy blues + Blacks

This lead to this design “A Fine Day”. Each of the color blocks will be improv scrap blocks, not solid as in the design below.

I plan to quilt it with some circular quilting on the lower half and then radiating lines on the top 1/2 in various colored thread.

In the challenge, you can add any Riley Blake fabric + any solid. Tomorrow, I will post some of my additional fabric choices.

Are you entering the Challenge? What are your plans?

2014 Quilt Book Wish List + Giveaway Winners

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If you have missed any of the book reviews you can now find them here (or it is one of the sub-menu pages if you click on SqueekCrafts above).

What upcoming quilting books do you have on your wish list?? In the spirit of upcoming book reviews, here are some of the ones that are on my wish list. What is on your list, are any of these of interest to you? Here are 10 that are on my wish list.

Vintage Quilt Revival – Katie Clarke Blakesley, Lee Henrich & Faith Jones (Dec 2013)
Playful, Little Paper-Pieced Projects – Tacha Bruecher (Jan 2014)
Quilting with a Modern Slant – Rachel May (Jan – 2014)
The Modern Appliqué Workbook – Jenifer Dick (Jan 2014)
Modern Quilts & More – Einmo (Feb 2014)
Minimal Quiltmaking – Marston (Mar 2014)
Modern Quilt Perspectives – Thomas Knauer (Mar 2014)
Make & Love Quilts – Mary Katherine Fons (Jun 2014)
Lucky Spool’s Essential Guide Modern Quilt Making (Jun 2014)
Savor Each Stitch – Carolyn Friedlander (Jul 2014)