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Project Quilting - Season 10, Challenge 2: Red, White & Blue

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In March I will celebrate my 2nd anniversary of quilting.   2 years ago I went to a meetup group for "Quilts of Valor".  This meetup makes quilts for veterans and we meet monthly.  We create them with red white and blue fabrics in a variety of patterns.  When this challenge came up with PQ, I wanted to create a quilt, but not necessarily a patriotic quilt since i spend a lot of time doing that with QOV. Snowflake Quilt:  I started with the idea of a snowflake quilt.  I wanted to figure out if I can create snowflakes like we did with paper when we were kids, but with fabric.  I started by putting some interfacing on the back of the fabric to make it stiffer.  Then I folded it up into a cone-shaped triangle and cut various shapes.  The snowflake that resulted ended up cute, but not as awesome as I wanted.  So instead of creating a whole quilt, I just did a little wall hanging.  I appliqued it onto white fabric and did the quilting and binding.  After I finished the pie

Project Quilting - Season 10, Challenge 1: Hope Springs Eternal

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Project Quilting - Season 10 is on! If you've never done or heard of Project Quilting checkout this blog . I participated last season and you can check out my entries in previous blog posts.  I am excited to participate this year!  My main goal is to use scraps rather than buying fabric or supplies.  Last year I bought something new for almost every challenge and I have plenty of stash so I should be able to use what I have. Challenge 1: Hope Springs Eternal 28"x30"     title: driving hope into 2019 I've been listening to Dave Ramsey since the last week of 2018. I'm doing January on a budget and I would like to really try the baby steps this year.  If you need info about Dave Ramsey, go here or check him out on YouTube . I would like to payoff my car this year. That is the inspiration for my quilt. I did some raw edge applique. These are some inspiration pics I got from Pinterest Here are some progress pictures   adding the s