Now that we've had our January PMQG meeting, I can show you photos of the quilt I made for the Madrona Road Challenge!
Packets of fabric from the blue Madrona Road colorway were distributed by participating chapters of The Modern Quilt Guild, each of which created more specific guidelines for their own members to use for the challenge. All participants were invited to add solids and additional Madrona Road prints.
The Portland Modern Quilt Guild issued a challenge that involved using text in some way, something I found really fun and exciting!
If you're familiar with Madrona Road, you've probably seen Violet's Memoir print, which includes a story about her life and her work.
One of the things that Violet and I have in common is that we both came to be doing the kind of work we do now only after years of holding soulless corporate jobs, so that part of the story really resonated with me and became the focus of my challenge project.
So, yes, my project is super-mushy, but I think it's important to love the work that you do (regardless of whether your real work is the work that pays your bills).
On a more literal level, I also love the work that Violet did on her collection!
This quilt is made from a single piece of yarn-dyed Essex in black and measures about 44" x 56". The patchwork heart and the smaller letters were appliqued using this technique.
I made the larger letters by combining the techniques that I used for this quilt and this quilt.
The scrappy back was made with odd pieces of solids and Madrona Road.
I free-motion quilted using my dogwood quilting technique, which involved drawing a grid on the quilt top with water soluble marker and then misting the finished quilt with water after the quilting was finished.
Now that the quilt is finished and has been tested by George-Michael, I'm going to add it to the Finished Projects Flickr Pool.
