Quilt Collaboration Complete

Astrid and Jane got their scrappy liberated medallion quilt completed.  They both did the piecing of the quilt top.  Jane did the quilting and Astrid did the binding. 

It is in a very scrappy style using leftover bits and orphan blocks from several previously constructed quilts.  They are trying to not waste fabric.  I think it will fit into our Gwen and Freddie style for our next quilt show!

Quiltin' Meetin' With Show 'N' Tell

This evening, we all met up at Kirsten and Jane's place for a quilt meeting.  What a fun time!  Astrid and Kirsten have been collaborating on a Gwen and Freddie tribute quilt.  What a surprise!

Of course, it is called "Gwenny's Baskets".  It is simply lovely.  I think this year we have made more quilts than ever, and we still have four months left in the year.  Of course, getting ready for a themed quilt show has a lot to do with it.  

This is the first time to one of our meetings, for Gracie.  She brought several of her quilts to show us.  This is her liberated log cabin quilt.  She quilted it herself on her domestic sewing machine.

This is a liberated medallion quilt, made by Gracie.  She really fits in with our group.  It has nothing to do with her bringing chocolate chip cookies and kitty measuring tapes for us.

This is Gracie's Fractured Log Cabin quilt.  She just completed it this week.  She had been working on it to contribute to our upcoming quilt show.  The show is at Expo Idaho on Sept 26 and 27.  Kirsten and Jane have all the quilts for the show curated, and we are all working on last minute things that need to be done.  We went over those at our meeting, then had a fun time chatting and eating cookies.

Astrid's "GweFre" Quilt is Fabulous!

I had so much fun designing this quilt and making the "parts".  I have some parts left over, that will likely go into another tribute quilt.  Jane is thinking of doing a vertical row quilt and include some of the parts.  I think Jane and I will do some collaborative quilting!

Marsha took this photo of my quilt and I.  It is considered a medallion quilt, which is one of the types Gwen Marsten wrote an entire book about and hosted classes on.  The color scheme is all Freddy.

Gwen and Freddy Challenge!

Astrid here.  Our little group of quilters have decided to do a Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran challenge, as a 2025 tribute to two of our favorite quilter rock stars.  I have jumped right in!  I am feeling pretty good about what I have put together so far.

I am presently making a bunch of black and white half-square triangles for another border within this quilt.  I also, have more decisions to make about what kind of flowers I am making stick out of my Gwenny basket.  I am so excited!  Edna is going to make one, too.  She made a Gwen Marsten style medallion quilt a couple years ago, so I call her a trailblazer.

Edna's Amazing Liberated Monster Medallion Quilt

Edna sent us a photo of her completed Monster Medallion Quilt.  The center square has monster fabric.  She quilted it on her home sewing machine, with the stitch-in-the-ditch method.  She said she is keeping it displayed on her living room wall.

As someone who likes straight lines, I know it is hard to make liberated blocks on purpose.  Edna said she had one strip she wanted to widen out on one end, but she was thinking in the wrong direction, so instead of widening out, it ended up straight, totally on accident.  She had two rip it out and try the other direction to make it work for her.  I asked Edna what she was planning for her next quilt.  She said it would be something with flying geese, most likely.  That sounds reasonable, since the rest of us are just winging it for now.