Slide Show quilt, completed for West Suburban Quilters' Guild charity challenge. |
Around about the 2nd, I decided to fiddle around in my stash and patterns to see what I could come up with. I figured if I chose something simple and worked with what I had, I might be able to get it done in time. I told myself I wouldn't stress myself out about getting it done, but would do my best (more on that later).
I opted to use Atkinson Designs' pattern, Slide Show because it was simple and I was able to pull everything but the backing and border from my stash. The top went together really quickly and I ran into the quilt shop on a weeknight after work to pick out the border and backing fabric. I wasn't totally in love with it, but it was the best I could do in the time I'd allotted and with a husband and infant in tow! I loaded it on my frame last Saturday night and thought I was pretty good to go, but suffered a bit of a setback when I discovered I had to rip out the majority of a row of quilting due to tension problems.
At that point, I didn't think there would be any way that I could finish a charity quilt in time for last night's guild meeting. I had a number of other commitments and didn't want to stress myself out too badly. However, I was so close to being able to finish that I couldn't stand it. I stayed up just a bit later, had Ben watch Jonah himself a bit longer, washed the quilt to try to hide some of the needle holes from the stitching I had to rip out, etc. and was able to drop the quilt off with Kelli on Tuesday night because I wasn't able to go to the guild meeting last night myself. I'm sad I wasn't able to see what others did with the challenge fabrics (mine was the multicolored print in the lower left hand of the photo below), but am hopeful that images will be posted to the guild site.
My challenge fabric was the multicolored print in the lower left. |
1 comment:
I love how this turned out! Amazing isn't it when you start on something your not sure of and it turns out FANTASTIC! Good JoB!
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