Becca's Quilting Fun

Project Quilting Season 9 - Challenge 2:   Triangulation I call this "Tri Triangles" My piece is 29" by 23".  I create in Schaumburg, Illinois So "Triangles" is the basic idea. I've done some flying geese before, and some snowball corners (?), but I wanted my triangles to be bigger.  I didn't really have a story to tell with this one, but i wanted to have multiple examples. When the challenge was announced, I was in the final day of a 4 day sewing retreat, and to be honest I was kinda tired.   That, and the fact that I needed to go smaller than #1 challenge, I went down in scale. I started by going with some stash squares of my holiday fabric and making them into strips of triangles.  I made those strips into a triangle with a black center and black around it.  I like how black makes the colors pop. I found a really fun round of Keepsake Calico fabric that had the same pattern, but spoke mostly solid, and in bright color...

Hi everybody! I am so excited to do this Project Quilting challenge. I've never done a challenge like this before but I loved seeing inspiration for past seasons.  And if I'm ever out of ideas (ha ha) when I'm not in S9 Challenge mode, I can look back and try those out too! So here's my finished piece for the week.  It's 46" X 43" We'll deconstruct it & I'll tell you my journey next. We got the challenge at noon on Sunday, January 7th.  I live in the central time zone so luckily i'm in the same time zone as Kim, our leader.  (If you are interested in project quilting challenges or finding out more, go here:  http://persimondreams.blogspot.ca/p/project-quilting.html ). All week I was excited to find out what the challenge would be. I was excited to get started. I even cleaned my sewing area up! (I know, shocking!)    My plan was, I would get the challenge, brainstorm, do some sketches, pick fabric, and get sta...