Lighthouse Stars

The Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild is working on a beach themed quilt to donate to charity.  The only specifications are that the block must be 10 1/2" unfinished and contain beach colors.  I decided to use the Lighthouse Stars pattern with a blue print and solid white for my block.  I can't wait to see what kind of blocks everyone else makes! 

Starry Night!

It's hard to believe that you could cut up a poster into squares, ask 24 very different quilters to replicate each piece in fabric and get something in return that looks even remotely like the original, but look at how well our pieces look together!  It really does look like van Gogh's Starry Night! There is still one block to be finished and then the piece will be sewn together and quilted.  I can't wait to see it once it's finished!

A Little Thread

I added a bit of stitching to my Starry Night block.  I didn't go crazy with the thread, but added just enough to suggest brush strokes and secure the fused pieces.  I think it's done, but I'm going to let it talk to me for a bit before I make that decision.

A Few Puzzle Pieces

The Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild met yesterday, so a few of us got a chance to put our Starry Night blocks up on the design wall to see how they were going to look together.  Considering that it was an anything goes kind of project and we did not discuss fabrics or techniques, I don't think my block was too far off from how everyone else approached the project.  There was a lot of thread work on the other blocks, so I brought mine home so I could do a little thread painting before the next meeting.  I can hardly wait until next month to see all the pieces of the puzzle together!

Starry Night?

I'm not sure that anyone will ever accuse me of being the next van Gogh, but at least I have a good start on my block for the Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild's Starry Night quilt project.  The pieces are just fused down for now.  I will finish it up once I see how well my block plays with the others at Sunday's guild meeting.

What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

A couple of months ago I joined the newly formed Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild.  It is such a fun group and their excitement about modern and art quilting is very contagious!  So contagious, in fact, that when I said over and over that I wasn't going to join in the Starry Night quilt project, I still came home with a block to make!  This is a group project where we all were given a section of van Gogh's Starry Night to reproduce in fabric, so somehow in the next few weeks I have to take the above photo and turn it in to a quilt block.  What have I gotten myself into?