Woohoo @marionberries!!
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Thanks everyone. I’ve had fun and fun showing things off to a very appreciative crowd!
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New month - new prompt, new BOM.
New quarter - new challenge, new goal lists (or old goal lists if your goals remain the same).
April Prompt
Applique:
Sewing your fabric/design on top of a larger piece of fabric. So many different designs can be achieved with the use of applique and this is the month to showcase that technique! Whether hand stitched, machine stitched, or even just fused, quilt something lovely using applique.
BOM:
April:
Log Cabin - suggested my @Magpie
Log Cabin Video Tutorial
Log Cabin - Paper Piecing Templates
Log Cabin Block - A Brief History
Quarter 2 Challenge
(April 1 - June 30)
Art Quilt:
Art quilts are created using a quilting method that is led by the art, not by the pattern (like patchwork quilting). An art quilt is a quilt to be looked upon rather than snuggled under. Art quilts can be ‘broadly classified’ under the following categories:
Abstract, Improvisational, Collage, Landscape, Nature, and Portraits
The challenge for this quarter is to create your own art quilt. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just give it a try and enjoy the process!
Mr. X Stitch explains art quilts - pretty much all of the information above was gleaned from this post.
How to design a simple art quilt
Goal List:
Last of all, please share your second quarter goals with us. You can earn an entry into the prize drawing for every goal you share and complete this quarter!
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I marionberries submit my Q2 goals:
Finish the scrappy baby quilt and donate
Complete the scrappy Sunrise Tree art quilt in progress
Eat fewer M&Ms as I perfect my quilting skills (see below)
Complete the scrappy scrap lap quilt and donate
And a log cabin block for April, yay! I do art blocks all the time. I posted a few some weeks ago. I find them liberating and downright fun. My only issue is that I need a theme, a purpose to create them. I need a deadline! I’m not the kind of artist who just creates, that’s why I love LC craftalongs and swaps, gives me reasons to hole up in the crafting cave.
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I’m trying 4 at a time flying geese, cutting out all the pieces takes forever, ugh.
1 hour later… still cutting!
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It will be so worth it when you can fly through and put them together without having to stop and cut more fabric!
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Wellll, I meant to do laundry, but then I sat down at the computer…and designed a quilt instead.
Awhile ago, I fell in love with this quilt design when I saw it hanging in the background of a YouTube video. I spent a lot of time sourcing information on the quilt in the past and discovered it was made with a Jacob’s Ladder block. Today, I stumbled upon some screenshots I had taken from the video and decided to see if I could recreate the quilt using the Electric Quilt 8 software. I don’t know the software very well, so it took me awhile, but I figured it out! I imported the fabric that I want to use and now, I have a picture of what I want to make. I have a layer cake that I think will be enough fabric, but I really should do the math to verify. I would love to actually get started on this one day soon, but with all the other projects I want to do as well as the ones I really need to finish, I know it will be awhile before I ever get to it.
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Gorgeous!
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Art quilting…
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Wow! She was doing TM stuff way before TM! Perhaps she was an inspiration to TM!
Art pieces for sure! (I swear the title said Defy the Gods…)
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What a unique style of art quilting. I looked up her daughter and though the two created art using different mediums, it’s interesting to see how the style remained similar.
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I have finallllllly finished the binding on my bee collage! It’s only been over a year in the making 
. I don’t know why, but the binding (which was just good ol’ regular binding, not even on a full sized quilt) was such a challenge. After running into issues a year ago, I set it aside and have been meaning to get back to it since. Ironically, it continued to give me challenges and I had to rip the seams at least 3 more times in the past few days. But, I persevered and it is finally done. 
Now to embroider the label…
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I’ve been having a lovely time this afternoon reading through this thread and seeing all your beautiful projects! Now that I’ve got more creative time, and I’m not doing my old job anymore, I think it’s about time I joined in 
My goals for the second quarter of 2023
- make a lap quilt using the steampunk fabric Mr Jemimah picked out at a little local store a couple of weeks ago + the rest from stash (I think a compass design)
- make something using the natural + red print fabrics that have been calling to me
- finish one of the projects I started ages ago from my Yoko Saito books (they are so beautiful, but so time-intensive)
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TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE MAKING THINGS 
We’ve just over a day and a half until the Peek Behind The Curtains Challenge closes! I just know some of you have made some quilitiness that you have not given their own topic. Please share with us before Midnight on April 19 2023, US Pacific Time.
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-I Renstar , offer this destash quilt for my medium personal finish.
Finally finished. I really do not like hand sewing, it hurts my shoulder!!
Now to get it over to my brother!
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That looks so gorgeous. I’m afraid of white but I could do grey… hmm. Thinking…
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Thanks.
It was a good de-stash project. Everything was stash except the binding.
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