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Splash of Silver – VSQ Challenge

This post is a summary of my progress on my challenge quilt. Since I was not a liberty to share my ideas and work before the voting I added to this post as I worked on this project and had it published on the day of the voting.

Village Squares Quilters 2008 Challenge
Splash of Silver
Your Challenge is to create a quilted wall hanging with this theme.
Rules:
1. The entry must have three layers and be a quilted wall-hanging.
2. Shape: square or rectangle
3. Dimensions: no side longer than 25 inches nor shorter than 10″
4. Choice of fabrics and use of embellishment is up to you.
5. Bring your qults in by 11:30 on October 14.
Brainstorming:

I had put this picture of a Christmas card in my idea folder a while ago. The idea I had at the time was to make a much larger quilt to hang in my studio during the winter. But , I decided to use this as my inspiration for my challenge quilt.

I saw this picture on Susan Cleveland’s website and decided that I wanted a border like this quilt on my challenge quilt.

Friday, Sept. 26, 2008

This is 1/2 of a side of the spikey border that I drafted.
Monday, Sept. 30, 2008

Sections of the border that I am paper piecing.



Part of the border pieces laying on the sample center.
The swirl lines are chalk and the two snowflakes are practice ones.
(Note to self – need to include some large snowflakes also.)

Experimental top and all the border pieces completed.

Now to pieced the border together.

Close-up of the different silver fabrics used in the border.

Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008

The borders have been pieced onto the center section – there are a bunch of ripples in the border, I am sure I can press into submission.
Next to add the swirls.


Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008

The swirls were done with a metalic thread. (Kind of a pain to work with.)

Here is my challenge quilt hanging, I am trying to decide if it has enough stars.

October 2, 2008

Visit my post – Sneak Peak – to see what I am working on today on this quilt.

Also, I should remember that I have come to the conclusion that pressing into submission does not work most of the time? So, I am also redoing the border to get rid of all the ripples that you can see in the above picture.

One side completed (right side of the picture), one side pinned down (bottom of picture), and two more sides to be worked on.

October 13, 2008

I am in the process of blocking the quilt – still trying to get it to lay flat.
Binding and rod pocket ready to attach when quilt is dry from the blocking.

October 14, 2008

I made it – it is completed. Needless to say – I dodn’t get alot of sleep last night.

Whoops – I forgot to wash off the chalk lines. You can see the quilting lines much better on the back.

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2 Responses to “Splash of Silver – VSQ Challenge”

  1. Emily W says:
    October 14, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Mom it turned out really pretty

  2. terificreations says:
    October 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    this is as pretty in person! Great job and congratulations!

    Teri

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