‘Celebrate’ by Claudia M

Celebrate! for the Project QUILTING Confetti Challenge

Confetti always reminds me of fun celebrations so this seemed a natural banner to hang whenever there is a get together!
19" x 29"
Claudia M, Beaver Dam WI


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‘Shimmer’ by Christina

‘Shimmer’ for the first Project QUILTING Challenge – Confetti

17.5 square, looking forward to this challenge..my aim is to work small...

Used  Bold Over Batiks scraps,fused them on hand dyed fabric within Bo Nash,used tulle then appliquéd to Fairy Frost.

Found left over binding which worked...

Christina from Nova Scotia Canada

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‘Snow Buddies’ by LIsa F

I call it Snow Buddies. I enjoyed the process of this quilt more than any of the others because both of my kids had their hands in the creative mix.

My 12 year old son designed the quilt on a piece of scratch paper at a restaurant and then selected all of the fabric. He carefully chose just the right owl from a piece of fabric to include. He originally wanted a snowman army like in 'Calvin and Hobbes.'  He was willing to compromise with one snowman having a snowball fight with friends.

My 8 year old daughter helped to do some of the quilting. It started with her on my lap as I quilted, but eventually she convinced me to walk away and let her work. She was also my critical designer eye when telling me just where to put the snow on the tree branches and determining how to make the scarf.

The snowman, snow angel, and snowy owl are having fun in this snowball inspired quilt just like I had fun with my kids while making the quilt.

by LIsa Foslien

“A Dichotomy” by Anna M

"A Dichotomy"

A tribute to all those things I thought about long and hard, but just couldn't complete in a timely fashion due to one thing or another. 

Well thought out and hasty.  All at the same time.

xxo!
Anna Montgomery

‘A Snow Bird’s Chance’ by Charlene Waggoner

This project is called A Snow Bird's Chance. I bought the fabric for it while on vacation in Florida. It was absolutely going to have several snowmen made using the yellow fabric... but that whole yellow snow thing slowed me down. Then it was going to have snow men in white with blue snowball cornered waves and beach... but that whole snowballed corner thing really slowed me down.

Once I found this @urbanthreads design, I knew that rather than a snowman this one had to be a snow bird. A snow bird wishing she could fly South and get out of the snow.

“Challenge in Review–Done in Ice Blue” by Sandy H

This is  my "Challenge in Review - Done in Ice Blue" .  Combining all the blocks that have been a part of the Focus Through the Prism Challenge in one 20" quilt. 

This has been so much fun -- looking forward to the new challenge each month. Going to miss checking out what the new block will be on the first of the month.    Thank you. 

Sandy Huovinen,

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‘Milestone Memories’ by Roxy A Pike (GranRox)

"Milestone Memories" by Roxy A. Pike (GranRox)

Each of these vegetables depict milestones from my husband's 41 year career at Texas A&M U. I created the design as a memory quilt for him. 

Leonard M. Pike was a Horticultural Research Scientist/Professor and developed these four vegetable varieties, plus others, using traditional plant breeding methods to create more attractive and tastier vegetables with natural plant disease resistance, better nutrition, and fitting certain marketing windows.

The onion is "TX 1015", a large, single center, sweet onion. Noted for its large size and mild flavor, it contains more of the naturally-occurring chemical in onions that M.D. Anderson scientists report prevents colon cancer, provides larger/more onion rings per onion and is grown around the world. The pickling cucumber is "TX Triple Cross" and was developed for once-over mechanical harvesting. The orange carrot is "TX Gold Spike" and noted for its deep orange color, sweet taste, long, slender shape and used for "baby" carrots sold in cello pak. The maroon/purple carrot is named "BetaSweet" because it is high in beta-carotene and has a sweet taste. When sliced into "coins", they reveal a bright orange center.

I made one large Snowball block to frame the visuals and I hope it reads orange.

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