Accepting the Challenge

Back in July, my guild issued an interesting challenge….

For this challenge, you will create a wall-hanging-sized quilt using your three initials to guide your design. One of your initials should represent the main color scheme, another initial should represent the name of a featured block, and the remaining initial should represent the theme or mood. Any of your three initials can be used for any of the design elements, but you must use all three.

Along with this description were links to websites that had Quilt Blocks starting with various letters and websites with Colors starting with various letters!

At first I was truly overwhelmed by all of the decisions that I needed to make, but after I found the pieced Mariner’s Compass block that I talked about yesterday, I knew that I was on my way.

You see, my middle name is Marie, so Mariner’s Compass was my starting point!!

Then I started looking for colors starting with “F”…..

I am a huge Fuschia fan so that was definitely one of the choices….

But then there was Fire Engine Red…..

As I looked further, I found Flax Flower Blue….

And look at this lovely purple called “Ferris Wheel…..

And finally, this amazing green called “Fuego…

And for a background, I found Flint….

So, now my “F” color palette was set!!

Now to pick the fabrics!!

There was a lot of this going on…..

….but I eventually picked all 16 fabrics….

Come back tomorrow and we will start piecing!!

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One of my favorite things about quilting is motivating others and helping them in their quilting journey. As part of this endeavor, I LOVE to present programs and workshops to groups and guilds around the world. All of my programs work well with Zoom meetings, and I would love to speak to your group.

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