Yes, we have made it to day four of Community Quilts. I hope that you enjoy the last few.

My husband is a geneticist so I have seen this next design MANY times in my life…..

It is an abstraction of a DNA sequencing panel that looks like this….

The question of whether you can do Improvisational Piecing and yet achieve symmetry is both asked and answered by this next quilt….

This next quilt was based on the historical and architectural aspects of the makers’ city….Greensboro, North Carolina…..

This group from Silicon Valley did an experiment to see if AI could produce blocks similar to human creativity. The prompt read…. “Design a modern square quilt block using lines, angles, curves to depict an abstract or literal representation of the ocean, mountains, sun using Bella solid fabrics in Mauve, Prune, Dovetail, Pond, Teal, Canary, Saffron, Home Town Sky”. I am such a technology nerd that I LOVE THIS!!!

If you want to know which ones were designed by AI, check out their blog post…..

Technology in Quilting—ARTificial Intelligence

Here is an up close photo of some of the designs…..

As my readers know, I love 3-D quilts. Sadly, I don’t know who made this one. If you do, please let me know!!

The quilting also drew the quilt to my attention…..

This guild cut kits for members to complete their blocks…..

And last, but certainly not least……

AND….sadly, I missed the maker of this one as well. I apologize!!!

Of course, I have to end up with some wonderful straight lined quilting…..

So ends the review of Community Quilts at QuiltCon 2024!! I hope that you have enjoyed the show and are encouraged to make a quilt that “does good”!!

Keep coming back and we will move to yet another category….there are bunch to go!!

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Well, we have now looked at about half of my favorites from the Community Quilt division.

Lace up your comfy shoes….we have more to see!!

Twenty five guild members participated in the paper piecing of this design. The designer set out to represent radial and transitional symmetry…..

The quilting was quite nice too…..

The photo of this next quilt doesn’t do it justice……

They worked with all 8 colors suggested by the rules and almost 100 members pieced the 6-inch string blocks!!

I took SO many photos of this next quilt….

Yes the quilt is stunning but the custom quilting is out of this world…..

I love the wonky striped blocks in this one…..

AND….it was HAND quilted….

This next quilt contains 700 individual blocks…..

Members were given Kona cottons in the desired colors and were told to dig through their scraps to add interest. It worked!!!

This next quilt was also a favorite….not just with me but with all attendees…..

Do you have any idea what this design was inspired by??

I won’t keep you waiting……HANG GLIDERS!!

The paper piecing designs are wonderful…..

While I like the design of the next quilt…..

….the quilting (called Imrpov Wonky Spiral Triangles) is what won me over…..

This quilt marked the beginning of the Rhein (Germany) MQG. They brought together over 100 quilerts to work on this quilt……

Okay….one more day to go. Come back tomorrow!!

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Yesterday we looked a number of Community Quilts from QuiltCon. Let’s keep going…..

Each of 4 Individual MQG members interpreted the word “Reverberate” and this is the quilt that was created….

This next quilt is all about finding that the whole is larger than the sum of its parts…..

This one was a huge favorite of mine…..

Apparently, it started out as a Dresden plate that morphed to be wedges placed on a spiral. To keep it symmetrical, each of the wedges was drafted in inkscape and printed out for members to sew the foundation papers.

Some of the designs are phenomenal….

This quilt was a special project with the aim to teach many of their members how to paper piece…..

I would say that they were successful!!

From the artist statement for the next quilt….. “Our finished quilt is a testament to our ability to work together, work through differences, and find common ground. In the end, we all loved this quilt”…..

To me, that attitude is what this challenge is all about!

The makers of the next one described themselves as “Neighbors, but strangers” who met when each heard the rumor that there was another quilter in the neighborhood……

I love that their friendship blossomed just like this quilt did.

The quilting added a lot to the design…..

This group from India used interesting colors chosen from the ones provided…..

The quilting on this next piece was done on a domestic sewing machine…..

Yes, you heard me right….a DOMESTIC…

This final one for today caught my eye initially, but I loved it even more after I read the quilt name…..

To give you an idea of scale, many of the strips were 1-inch!!

Alright….that is it for today but don’t worry, there are many more to come.

See you tomorrow!!

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This week I am going to show my favorites in the “Community Quilt” division at QuiltCon. These are always some of my favorite quilts so get ready!!

Community Quilts are designed to do good and are raffled off to support various causes. There are a few rules…

You must use this color palette….

…or at least a portion of it. You can use ANY fabrics as long as they are in this color range.

The quilts are to be made by groups of MQG members….either a guild or a group of individual members.

There is always a theme for the quilts and this year it is “SYMMETRY”.

With those rules in mind, let’s get started!!

This first was designed by an accountant so you KNOW that I was drawn to it……

The group members used this next quilt to hone their technique for making circles, having classes and get-togethers designed to help everyone to learn…..

Doesn’t that sound fun!!

And, as you might guess, I was drawn to the quilting!!

This next group of 10 members certainly achieved the required symmetry, even though it was the bilateral type…..

This quilt left lots of negative space for quilting….

But the quilting in the actual design was wonderful too…..

The South Sarasota MQG seemed to have fun making this quilt……

They spent one day creating the blocks and a second day constructing the final layout.

Again….lots of fun quilting….

The color palette reminded the next guild of summer evenings in the Blue Ridge Mountains….

More than 15 people worked on this quilt!!

The artist statement for this next quilt says…. “Chained is a work of Improv symmetry, depicting decaying chains that descend into reflecting water…

And you guessed it….more amazing quilting….

Apparently this quilt was designed by accident! When the completed blocks had a chance encounter with a fall to the floor, an alternate layout emerged.

And last for today…..

This quilt is a wonderful mixture of many different techniques including Improv Piecing, applique, curves and fabric weaving.

I bet the had fun making it!!

Okay….come back tomorrow for more….

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