Yesterday we looked at a few of the quilts made for the sole purpose of raising money for special projects.

Here are 5 more……

This first one was made by the “Discord Quilters Guild”…..sounds like there is a story here!!

So….here is the quilt…..

….and…..here is the story……

Don’t you love that!!

There is so much movement in the next one…..

They chose the interwoven pattern from @LoadBeholdStitchery (she spoke at my guild and is wonderful!!!) as a reminder to all of us that we are all interwoven and our success and failure depend upon each other.

In was fun to “go swimming” in this next quilt…..

In their statement, they talk about the color shift and soft tranquil flowing curves.

That is exactly how it makes me feel……tranquil!!!

Along the same “undersea” theme……

I can just see schools of fish swimming along!!

They worked together in a three-day session and came up with the completed top at the end of that time!!

This was one of my favorites in this category…..

In the artist’s statement, they said that the design was inspired by the unique shell markings on a radiated tortoise!! They used paper piecing and a controlled selection of colors to create the blocks and establish the color shift. Applique circles enhance the color shift….

….and probably hid lots of unmatched points at the center of each block (my addition)

Whatever they did, I truly love this quilt!! To enjoy it more, make it smaller in your screen or squint at it. The color changes are SO effective!!

That’s it for today…..tomorrow we finish up this category.

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This category needs some explanation…..

There were two colorways that groups could pick from. Most were from the blue/green/yellow that you will see shortly, but there was one in the Pink colorway that I really liked. So, let’s start with it….

The group got the idea from “show-and-tell” quilt and took it to new heights. I love how the center disappears and reappears at the corners.

The quilting really enhanced the design….

This quilt was made by the host guild for the QuiltCon23….the Greater Atlanta Modern Quilt Guild…..

I am drawn to the colors as they flow across the quilt.

This would actually make a good group quilt because it could be paper pieced, ensuring that all of the blocks were the same size!!

The color placement in this next quilt works wonders….

This is from the Artist’s Statement…..

“A constellation needs each and every one of its parts since one element does not exist without the other. In a way, this represents us as a group of quilters working together….making our constellation with each one of our segments, sewing them by hand one by one.”

How cool!!

The next quilt had a similar thought….

“As the small and big, slightly wonky and randomly arranged triangles sometimes interact like teeth on a zipper, we as quilters – and people in general – interact as much. We build communities and friendships. We find groups of like-minded people to work together….to create.”

This next quilt added a couple of other fabrics to the mix and it really lightens the design…..

I love the idea behind this next quilt….can you guess what it was…..

WHAT A FUN IDEA!!

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You may not be happy about this, but I just found 45 more QuiltCon photos that I hadn’t pulled off of my phone….this series of QuiltCon favorites may go on for a VERY long time!!

Today let’s look at the Applique category. As usual, the MQG definition of an applique quilt is a bit different…..

This was the very first quilt that I saw and photographed on the show floor…..

I was super impressed with the machine applique…..

Such a smooth satin stitch.

Then, I looked at the statement and realized that it was made by a friend who used to be in my quilt guild. I see her quilts everywhere….. it is SO much fun!!

This next quilt reminds me of the gorgeous architecture that we have seen around the world….

I am attracted to the simplicity of the design.

This next quilt is one that just makes me smile….

I like the bias tape applique and would love to try some….maybe this should be the handwork project that I want to get started. I would never have picked this background fabric….

…but it is PERFECT for the whimsical nature of the quilt.

I like the design of this next quilt….

In her statement, she says that she made two earlier quilts with an original block design made up of a half circle and a quarter circle. But, in this quilt, she took that block and cut it in half, and repeated it.

My guild has a “Drunkard’s Path” challenge coming up in June and this has me thinking about ways to split the block up…..

This next quilt has an electric quality to it…..

Her appliqued points are SO crisp that I originally thought it was pieced and in the wrong category!!

WOW….

That’s five quilts and I have five more to show tomorrow. Come back to see more gorgeous applique!!

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Okay….let’s finish up the Improvisational Category at Quilt Con 2023.

I took a LOT of photos of this first quilt because I loved the soft tones and deep textures……

I don’t know about you, but after looking at this quilt for a few minutes, I felt like I had been to the beach!!

I love SO many things about this quilt, from the geometric fish…..

…to the skinny seaweed…..

….and don’t get me started about the quilting…..

IT added SO much texture to the quilt.

This year I seem very much drawn to curves so this quilt quickly pulled me in…..

Natalie said that sewing these gentle curves helped pull her thru the uncertainty of the COVID panic. I can see how it could do that!!

All I can say about this next quilt is WOW…..

Obviously, it is a simple idea with simple piecing but MAN does the quilting make a statement…..

I found this Black and White quilt to be very calming….

I started a piece many years ago that used these tiny strips…..

I think that it might be time to pull it out again!!

This final quilt appealed to me for the colors used….

…but as I looked further, I started to enjoy the layering effect that she could attain…….

It reminded me of the dilemma I have with my hotel carpet quilt that I had talked about in this post……

Floor or inspiration???

Maybe, just maybe I have a glimmer of an idea for how to approach my quilt.

Alright….we have now finished the Improvisation Category at Quilt Con. Don’t worry, there is still a LOT to come!!

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