And the next installment of quilts from my second year as Seattle Modern Quilt Guild Giving Committee Co-Chair with Debbie Jeske!
The Guild made a total of 7 quilts for the Giving Committee this year. A couple of them, like in 2016, other members took the lead on. Today, I’m only sharing the ones Debbie and I took the lead on.
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First up, Doing the Pink Flamingo! Pink Flamingo was the Kona Color of the Year in 2017. A lovely peachy pink color. Circa15 Fabric Studio was very kind and supplied the Guild with the enough fabric to share with those wanting to make a block. We gave the guild members 9″x11″ and they added their own gray and white fabric to make improv blocks.
I made three blocks!
First up, a funky log cabin! I love funky log cabins!
For the second two, I made a strip set and was able to use it in both blocks! Do you do improv quilting? I love how sometimes it can come so easy and fast!
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I collaborated with Debbie on the design and fabrics for this one and then I made my blocks and that was about it. The rest of the guild really did the work on this one! Debbie arranged the blocks roughly from light to dark and then pieced them into an awesome quilt top. The backing is Rhoda Ruth Wide Back by Elizabeth Hartman for Robert Kaufman in smoke, also donated by Circa15 Fabric Studio. Pam quilted it for us and Matt added more Pink Flamingo for the binding.
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Quilt Name: Doing the {Pink} Flamingo
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Next up is Playing it Cool! This was another improv quilt, but with a little more direction than Doing the Pink Flamingo. This one is inspired by Anne//Play Crafts’ Crayola Sunset. You can find the original tutorial that Debbie made for the Guild here. We made 6 1/2″ x 18 1/2″ or 6 1/2″ x 24 1/2″ blocks. We asked the guild members to use all solids in cool blues, greens and purples.
The blocks I made look like they have black in them, but it’s really a dark blue! Trust me on this one! This is a super fast way to do improv! And really having everyone’s different stash colors come together in one quilt, makes for an awesome combo!
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Debbie pieced the slabs together and Dionne quilted it using an all over Baptist Fan variation that adds great movement to the quilt! Guild Member Deborah Christensen stepped in to do the binding and used a scrappy green mix that plays up the improv!
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Quilt Name: Play It Cool
Quilt Size: 48” x 60”
Blocks by: Seattle Modern Quilt Guild Members
Pieced by: Debbie Jeske
Quilted by: Dionne Matthies-Buban
Binding by: Deborah Christiansen
Recipient: Northwest Breast Center
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For the third quilt, I thought it would be fun to use a Modern Quilt Guild Block of the Month. Every month the MQG shares a quilt block on their site with a bunch of ideas of how to use it in a modern way! For this quilt, we used a creation of one of our global members Rebecca Burnett of the Toronto MQG. The Robbing Pete block is a variation on the Robbing Peter to Pay Paul block.
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Like the Playing it Cool quilt, we asked guild members to use their own stash of cool blues and greens to make some blocks. The curved pieces were to be blue and the background green. Solids and prints were ok to use on this one!
Using this design idea was my idea. I thought it would be fun! And of course a learning opportunity to sew curves! But as I was putting it together, I hated it! Seriously, I hated it. I didn’t even want to wrok on it anymore and swore I’d never show it on my blog! But then, once I started actually piecing the blocks together, it all started to come together! By the time I finished the top, I liked it again. Once it was quilted, I had completely done a complete turn around. I love it! It’s not my usually style, but it turned out quite nice!
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I used some of the extra blocks to make a pieced backing for this one. Dionne and her husband make our awesome quilt labels for us! And Rachel, who just happens to be one of the new Giving Committee Chairs, did the quilting. and Amy added on the binding.
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Quilt Name: Cyan
Quilt Size: 48” x 48”
Blocks by: Seattle Modern Quilt Guild Members
Pieced by: Louise Wackerman
Quilted by: Rachel Singh
Binding by: Amy Steed
Recipient: Northwest Breast Center
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And last but not least, Icebound!
For this one, we were inspired by the Berry Icy Ice Bar block from Jodie of Persimmon + Pear. Another improv! Again, we used fabrics from the our own stash of magenta, medium pink, dark teal and light to dark gray to make 12 1/2″ blocks. Once again, Debbie pieced this one in rows and added a bit to each side.
The quilting and the binding was done by Judy White.
We are lucky to have such an awesome active group of members to help put these quilts together!
Quilt Name: Icebound
Quilt Size: 48” x 60”
Blocks by: Seattle Modern Quilt Guild Members
Top Pieced by: Debbie Jeske
Quilted & Bound by: Judy White
Recipient: Valley Breast Center
Gorgeous! I love how you share our giving quilts! Beautifully done!