QuiltCon Charity Quilt

I am sure that you all remember creating blocks for our QuiltCon charity quilt.  Diane took the blocks and through collaboration with Natalie + Brandy on the design came up with an amazing layout that actually gave us enough to make two quilts!  We only needed one to send to QuiltCon and Sherre was so kind to quilt it for us on her long arm.

The quilt for QuiltCon

 I love how the solid colors change in the background, they really highlight our blocks!

Bonus quilt!

The grouping of the blocks with the solid squares is really great and it is so bright against the solid gray background.

Pre-binding

Sherre chose a great all over quilting motif that really adds interest in all the negative space in the quilt.

  

With binding

Thank you to everyone that shared their fabrics and created blocks for our quilt.  Thank you so much Diane for creating a beautiful quilt top with our blocks.  And thank you so much Sherre for the beautiful quilting you did on our quilt (and binding it, too!).  I love seeing how our group comes together to work on great projects.  

QuiltCon Charity Quilt

We decided on our quilt for the QuiltCon charity quilt at our October meeting.  We decided on a pattern where we frame a fun block with one of the solid colors from the color scheme.

Here is a drawing of the idea of the quilt.

The blocks that make up the quilt are 12.5" x 12.5" and 16.5" x 16.5", which will finish as 12" and 16" squares, respectively.

The center blocks are your choice to make using the printed fabrics in the QuiltCon colors and white.  The background blocks are made of the solid QuiltCon colors, not the white.

*****************New measurements for the blocks since it was brought up that the 5 inch and 7 inch blocks are odd sizes.  We are going to go with 6 and 8 inch favorite blocks.  If you have already created then others, don't worry.  It will all work out.  ******************

The 12.5" block requires
center favorite:
6.5" x 6.5"
background:
4.5" x 6.5"
2.5" x 6.5"
2.5" x 12.5"
4.5" x 12.5"

The 16.5" block requires
center favorite:8.5" x 8.5"
background:
3.5" x 8.5"
5.5" x 8.5"
3.5" x 16.5"
5.5" x 16.5"


Oh and if you have flickr, we have a JSMQG group here.  You can share your blocks as you create them.

I look forward to seeing everyone's blocks!