In my continuing attempt to catch my blog up with all the items I've managed to finish so far this year, I'd like to share my Riley Blake Challenge Quilt. As anyone who is familiar with the Modern Quilt Guild knows, the periodically have challenges sponsored by some of their awesome sponsors such as Michael Miller or Riley Blake.
Earlier this year, Riley Blake sponsored a challenge with the Quilted Fish's fabric line called The Cottage Garden. It is a beautiful line of fabric with lots of my favorite colors like aqua, yellow, gray and it also came in a pink colorway.
We were sent the aqua/gray colorway to get started on our quilts. Of course I had to buy more fabric because you just never know, right?
The challenge was to try something new and do something you'd never done before. I had never done triangles and had been wanting to try them. Also, I've been wanting to start designing my own paper piecing patters. So I decided to design all the patterns for the entire quilt. It was a very simple design as each square only had 3 pieces and I had 3 different square shapes and sizes. It was fun and I really enjoyed it.
Ironically, I barely got my quilt posted to the site before the deadline. I had finished the quilt but forgot to post it until the very last day. I haven't received an email yet about the challenge winners so I guess they are still working on that. But its the challenge that's the fun part - although it would be awesome to win ;)
My pieced quilt back and label. I used lots of leftover fabric for the back and I think it came out great.
There were two great text prints in the line, a white with black text and an aqua with white text. I loved them both. I used the white for the binding.
Quilt Stats:
Name - Triangles
for the Riley Blake MQG challenge 2015
Size - 39.5 inches tall and 32 inches wide
Quilting - Quilted on my Juki with straight line quilting. I actually measures and marked every line because I wanted them to be straight and precise. They were exactly 1 inch apart.
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A couple of weeks ago, The Cottage Home blog held a fat quarter giveaway in conjunction with Riley Blake Fabrics. The prize was a fat quarter bundle from the fabric line Little
Matryoshka by Carly Griffith.
Well, I don't enter a lot of blog giveaways because sometimes it can be a lot of trouble but this fabric was just so cute that I had to. And guess what? I won. Can you believe it? It's like winning the lottery because so many people enter to win.
Any who, Riley Blake Designs contacted me promptly and sent me this lovely fabric.
I dont' have a clue what I'm going to do with it but for now I just like looking at it.
I'd like to make something for my MIL because purple is her favorite color but she's not always receptive to gifts.
I couldn't get my lighting right when I took these pics so some of them make the fabric look washed out but it's not. Some of the colors are soft such as lilac and pale aqua but others are very bright like the dark purple and orange. It goes so well together and would look great in a quilt.
So now I just have to decide what to make with it. Any suggestions?
And a special THANK YOU to Lindsay at The Cottage Home and to Riley Blake Fabrics for sponsoring this give away. You guys rock!
