A Change of Subject

I've been posting about the Quilt Show but now I want to share something that my quilting group is working on. Back when we first started we did shared activities -- if we made a quilt with ducks each of us made one or two squares and then we put the quilt together. (Sometimes we had some very funny looking ducks, too!) But, after a while, we ended up with each of us doing our own quilts all by ourselves.

I thought we needed to do some of the shared activities again and, in our group, if you have an idea you have a job. So, I found a quilt in a Fons and Porter magazine and I proposed it to the group. We had all learned to do the 'pineapple' square so we decided to use that square and then to applique the flowers in the center. I told everyone that they could choose their own fabric, either from our stash or from their own, and make their square. Then I would give them the applique pattern and they would put the applique on with black embroidery thread using the blanket stitch.

I'm sure that is what I said.

Oh, my, what a variety of squares! Different colors, different fabrics, and...different colored embroidery thread. But, this was to be done "their" way so that was ok. I even ended up doing one of my applique with colored thread, and I put some stitches in the center. (The original quilt had buttons in the center but since we make quilts for children we don't add embellishments like buttons.)

I've taken three pictures to show you just a sample of what we have done. Several of the squares are still out so I don't know how many have been done, but I do know that it will be a really interesting quilt when we get it finished!