Make a quilt for my book!!

Quilt #1                                                                Quilt #2

Quilt #3                                                                                 Quilt #4

 

Quilt #6

 Quilt #5

Hi!

I am working on a quilt book with a series of military-themed quilts to honor our service members!

I want to show that these quilts also have a wider appeal and so I am asking for assistance.   Your completed quilt may be chosen for the book!  Here is the deal:

1.   Chose one of the six quilts (pictures attached) and contact me at r.peldunas@comcast.net  with the Quilt # of the quilt you would like to make.  (I’ll need name, address, phone # and email.)

2.  I send you the instructions for that quilt and you sign a non-disclosure statement (saying you won’t reproduce and share the pattern). 

3.  You choose your own fabric and make a quilt based on the pattern.  (The quilt does not need to be an exact replica of the pattern, i.e., Quilt #6 does not have to have 23 “stars” – use your imagination and make a quilt with maybe 9 “stars”, set them on point or break them up with plain blocks interspersed).

4.  Contact me immediately if you have any questions or don’t understand the instructions – I’ll be counting on you to help me proof my patterns!  Feedback please!

5.  Make the quilts as large or as small as you wish, I have to recognize it as based on one of the six quilts attached.

6.  Quilts must be completed and given to me to be photographed by 15 Jun 2013 (maybe later - I'll keep you posted).  If you live outside of the Washington, DC area and it would be too expensive to ship the quilt and you have a good quilt photographer, I’ll accept a picture of the quilt.

7.  The quilt pictures accepted for the “Quilt Gallery” will be the final decision of the author and editors and will be based on space available.

 

I'm in Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks again!!

I've been notified that a block of mine was picked up to be in Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, vol.7!!

Vote for Turtles!

Vote For Me! "Turtles at Sea" (MQ) Quilt Design Star 2012/Professional Creative Crafts Group Go to the McCall's website under Professional Design Star Challenge!

McCall's Designers Quilt Challenge 1 posted!

They have posted all the Challenge 1 quilt tops and are they ever creative!!

Above is the quilt top "Turtles at Sea" - my entry!!  The rich batiks give the illusion of the "turtles" swimming!  Add a few applique turtles and you have trove of turtles - just like in the pond out back!

Above is a closeup of one of the turtles swimming with a friend!

McCall's Quilt Design Star Challenge 1 - throes of points!

Quilted Cora here - and in the throes of making "Storm at Sea" mine!  Not only does the block have all kinds of sharp corners and points - but it has to fit together with other like blocks!!  Good friends at lunch today, Carolyn Goins and Cindy Simms, gave me a hint about making it all fit together - steam, steam and more steam!!  Since the blocks have been blessed with water and steamed (sounds like cooking veges), I'll just have to let it sit overnight and sees what comes out tomorrow!  I hope Challenge 2 will involve something more simple - like the codes to launch nuclear warheads.  Or, maybe applique!  Back to the salt mines!

McCall's Quilt Design Star

Quilted Cora here!  My "peep" Renelda is working hard on he quilt to for Challenge 1!  I hear a lot of 4-letter words coming from her side of the studio - words like "iron" and "points" - OK, maybe not all the words are 4-letter ones!  She is having a great time matching up all the points and making sure she cuts out the correct fabric with the correct template!  I think she said she has half of the blocks done - that means I need to go and snooper-vise her or she'll never get finished on time!

McCall's Quilt Design Star 2012 Challenge 1

Quilted Cora supervising blocks for the McCall's Quilt Design Star 2012! 

Hi! Quilted Cora here!  As my "peep" Renelda writes this I am hard at work with McCall's Quilt Design Challenge 1.  I have to use the "Storm at Sea" block for the challenge.  I am good at designing and constructing quilt tops - I usually go with something more original.  I have never used the Storm at Sea block before and am looking forward to trying my hand on this one.  A lot of points, a lot of matching points!  Hopefully the next challenge will play to my strong suit - applique.