Update – Charity Quilt Blocks

Here are views of quilts made with charity blocks I posted November 21.

Spring 2014 Charity Quilt – Rochester Modern Quilt Guild
String Pieced on Foundations

I contributed two blocks to this quilt. It was one of five the Rochester Modern Quilt Guild donated to Bivona Child Advocacy Center this fall.

Fall 2014 Charity Quilt – Rochester Modern Quilt Guild
Crazy Scrappy Flower Blocks

This quilt is being assembled now by a member of RMQG and will be among those donated in 2015 to a local charity. In this photo, the blocks are being arranged on her design wall.

Guild members are still making blocks for the spool quilt; an update will be posted later.

Charity Blocks – 2014

Charity Block -Crazy Scrappy Flower

As a member of the Rochester Modern Quilt Guild, I have contributed 12-1/2″ blocks to several group quilts we have constructed for local charities. Here are a few of them.

For the block above, everyone made a flower in their choice of color and surrounded it with any green.

Charity Blocks – String Piecing on Foundation

I made two of the string pieced blocks. Everyone started with a white diagonal stripe; they were joined to form diamonds across the quilt.

Charity Block – Modern Spool

Our current project will join everyone’s modern spool blocks. The “thread” is foundation pieced to add a fresh twist on a traditional design.

Neo-Baltimore Petals – 2014

Front of Neo-Baltimore Petals, 16 X 16.

Spring of 2014, Michael Miller Fabrics conducted a challenge through the Modern Quilt Guild, based on their new designs. Each member received 6 free fat eighths and could enter anything quilted. This was my entry, heavily influenced by the Baltimore album quilts I had been reading about. It was a great chance to try out some 3-dimensional techniques and free-motion quilting.

Detail of quilting and 3-D elements on Neo-Baltimore Petals

More quilting and 3-D elements on Neo-Baltimore Petals

Some of the quilting is easier to see on the back.

Back of Neo-Baltimore Petals.