Project Quilting Season 8

My friend, Kim Lapacek, has gotten a bit famous for her yearly competition "project quilting." Kim is an amazing quilter who has contagious free spirit. I have been one of her sponsors for the event for a few years. I always love to watch the beautiful projects as they are entered, and sometimes I participate too. There is still time to join in. No one gets eliminated. You can do as many or a few of the challenges as you want.  This first challenge for the 8th season is inspired by the number 8. I googled "8" for inspiration and saw the bagua, which is an 8 sided, 8 colored symbol with a yin/yang at the center. A long time ago, I put out an applique pattern for yin/yang and it's fun to do, so that became my project. I used the harmony pattern enlarged 140% and figured out how to make an octagon out of triangles for the background.  The binding was done by trimming the background fabric after quilting to 3/4" larger than the quilt and then folding over twice.
I posted a few process photos on instagram as I went.  There you can see how at home the finished quilt is on my wall too. The finished piece is about 12" square. Made in Spokane, WA, USA

Binder Cover for KimsCraftyApple

Binder Cover for KimsCraftyApple
Originally uploaded by studiocherie

I entered a contest. Can you believe it? I know you can. If you have a minute, you like to look at quilted stuff, you would like to win a prize, or just because you want to show me a little love, please head here and vote for me! I love you! I appreciate you. I really do. If you like to quilt, join us next week for another challenge at KimsCraftyApple Project Quilting.

Join the quilting fun

burlap and butler totes
Originally uploaded by studiocherie

My friend Kim had such a fun idea I had to join in. If you sew, I hope you will join us too. She is calling it Project Quilting. Based on her love of Project Runway, there are challenges and everyone comes up with their own interpretation of it. I was blown away by the entries in her first round, so I just had to whip something up for the second round. Honestly, this is the first competition I have entered where I am not planning to win. If you check it out, you will see my unfinished project there. If you happen to vote for me, you must know the bag will be super cute when it's done. It's going to be something like these I made last spring - I thought it was time I did something with burlap again.