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QDAD: Quilt Design a Day (Week 8)

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This week has been an exciting time for our Quilt Design A Day group, especially exciting for Anne. Anne presented a great presentation on the “Quilt Design a Day: Discovering Your Creative Process”. If you are a MQG member, you can find the recording here.

Now, just as a reminder we are having a couple of challenge weeks at Quilt Design a Day. Last week started a shapes challenge…its finished up here this week, and followed by the beginning of the Medallion quilt design challenge.

 7 August: Challenge Day 5 “Triangles” – Pennants

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This design is based on the international numeral pennants (0 through 9).

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Based on feedback from the group, I added orange  which I really like  a lot. The second design I did for Anne to show the same design in prints.
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8 August: Challenge Day 6 “9 Patch”

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The inspiration or challenge today is to use the 9 patch block in the design. I deconstructed the squares and made scrappy blocks in prints of that are representative of the above color palette.

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9 August: Challenge Day 7 “Star” – Tapa Star

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This is an older design that I reused for the star challenge and played with this color palette. I would not usually use this palette so it was good to play and see what came from a new palette.

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10-13 August: Medallion Challenge Day 1 – 4 (to be continued next week)

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I had seen this cool black and white circle rug recently at either West Elm or CB2. I was thinking what a great idea to incorporate. Why not a circular Medallion quilt and what if some of it was bias applique.
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That’s it this week. I am really looking forward to seeing how the medallion quilt turns out.

QDAD: Quilt Design a Day (Week 7)

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This week, saw the start of a “Challenge Week” for the Quilt Design of the Day group. A topic is posted at the start of the day, and then you choose to participate or not. It was a lot of fun.

31 July: Gridded

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The rigging on the sail boats inspired this grid like pattern. I love the work from Yoshiko Jinzenji, and earlier this year tried out some applique, which I think I would use to add the grid lines to this piece.
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However, the palette would not be a keeper for me. I would really like to do this one a dark crossweace fabric with black, cream or grey prints….I loved the pop of red in the single square. QDAD_Gridded_Grey31JULY2014

1 August:

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The palette had so many great colors today. I really wanted to play with the outer circle of a drunkard path block. This initial design I found to be just too big….
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…so, I played some more. I am partial to the third one.QDAD_1AUG2014_v3    QDAD_1AUG2014_v2

2 August: Shelves

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I was on facebook and a suggested post of a modern bookcase was on my page….that turned into this design. Cerise will be a new background color for sure 🙂
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3 August: Challenge Day 1 “Triangles”

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I used both color palettes this day to show the same design. This is my favorite of the week. I love both palettes with the linen background. Using the green’s + grey from the flamingo print:QDAD_FlyingGeeseGreenLinen_3August2014

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And the browns, creams and grey from the feathers:QDAD_FlyingGeeseBrownLinen_3August2014

4 August: Challenge Day 2 “300”

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This was hard for me to come up with…in the end I chose a low-volume background with the Roman Numeric for 300 “CCC”.QDAD_300v2_4August2014

5 August: Challenge Day 3 ” Squares” – Diamonds are forever

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I loved the blue palette for this one and decided that a mix of prints and a little solid was great for this simple design.
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6 August: Challenge Day 4 “Circles” – Through Shattered Rose Glasses

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This design is an older design that I refurbished for the pick palette. The original is based on Alice in Wonderland “Through the Shattered Looking Glass“. First of one using a cream background:
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Or a darker background:
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That’s it for this week, more on the challenges in next week’s post. I have created a summary page here, if you want to take a look at previous weeks.

Quilt Design Contest Winner

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Just a quick post….I am so excited….I had wonderful news this week.

I won Sara Lawson’s of Sew Sweetness quilt design contest for her new fabric line Jungle Ave. The quilt will appear in the new magazine Quilt Now, as well!!  I hope you go over and take a look at Sara’s new fabric line and check out Quilt Now.

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