Monday, February 13, 2012

Circle of Life

There is so much exciting stuff going on in the quilting world that I jumped at the chance to join the newly formed Modern Quilt Guild (Central Illinois chapter). Our first challenge was to make a Circle of Geese block and turn it into a finished piece. You can find the free Piece by Number pattern here.
I made mine a circle of life (geese, after all, qualify as living!) and went dark to light in the circle, and then made borders that went light to dark on two sides, and dark to light on two others. The outer red isn't part of the quilt, but the white borders didn't show up on my white design wall!

My friend Mary made a tote from her geese block. The front is the basic block done in purple and teal batiks, but running out of fabric made her get creative on the block for the back -- look at the amazing star that forms in the center when you do it in a different fabric from the background. Wow! (Sorry about the poor lighting in the photo.)

I've been doing a lot of quilting and no blogging lately, so I'm starting with the most recent and will catch up in subsequent posts. Here's a Project Linus top I just finished -- it had been almost done for a couple of years and when I finally pulled it out, it took only an hour or so to finish it up. It's a Disappearing 9 Patch with a bear theme for a local summer camp for children with cancer.


8 comments:

KathieB said...

Your Circle of Geese looks great! Congrats on getting it finished. I Took a curved geese class at least 8 years ago and my project still is not done.

Quiltdivajulie said...

Welcome back!!! Great circle of geese quilt . . .

Libby said...

Wow those geese are so cool! And so exciting to hear that there is now a chapter of the modern guild happening in central IL. Now that I am sewing at least a tiny bit again I hope to make it to one of the meetings of the Chicago chapter soon.

Always nice to see a post from you!

Tonya Ricucci said...

wheee, fun. so glad you have some modern quilters in your area now!

Clare said...

Welcome back! I've missed you. Wish I had a Modern Quilt Guild near me.

jillytacy said...

I love your block! the colors are fabulous! how have you been?

laura west kong said...

Love your geese and the bag too! Makes me want to get my fabric out and try some geese myself.

Cher said...

catching up on the ring and love your circle of geese..what a fabulous idea!