good for the guy...
Jennifer Houlden
How many of you have been a part of quilting challenges?
Well, I’m in the thick of one right now. Elaine, one of the other
QUILTsocial bloggers and I were each asked to create a quilt
by the editor-in-chief of A Needle Pulling Thread magazine.
We will blog about our experience designing and creating this
quilt. The quilts are to be gender specific – one for a male and
one for a female. I’m designing the male one. The name of the
challenge is What’s Good For the Gal is Good For the Guy. A
rather witty name.
There are a few rules to this challenge. I was given a little blurb
on the personality of the male, for whom this quilt is being
designed and he’s all logic, mathematics, physics, and science.
He’s in university and 18 years old.
When the challenge was presented to me, I thought the male
version would be easier. Now that I’m in the thick of it, well, I’m
not so sure. I have to say that it took me a while to get my head
around what I would design because, you see, we each have
the same fabric to use and a limited amount of it. So, nothing
too complicated, but nothing too basic either.
The two blue background fabrics
The Fabrics
The main fabric or feature fabric was donated for this quilting
challenge by Coats and Clark and is called Eclectic Elements by
Tim Holtz. There are mostly 10-inch squares, some fat eights
and a couple of fat quarters. The fabric is very cool with all
kinds of eclectic designs – road maps, letters, signs of all sorts,
bottle caps, stripes and much much more. You see the supply
is a bit limited, so no room for error when creating this one and
no “do overs”. The color of the fabric has a sepia look to it.
For the background fabric, I’m using a couple denim blue-colored fabrics – both with a bit of texture that work well together and complement the feature fabric. All of this will be perfect
for a boy.
The backing fabric was donated by Northcott and is a gorgeous denim blue-colored flannel that looks like a Harris
Tweed. It’s from the Man About Town fabric line.
Templates
I picked out a couple of interesting templates from the H. A.
Kidd website to use for creating some cool geometric shapes
as quilting motifs. When they arrived in the mail, I thought:
These are “way cool” and I’ll be able to make shapes to be
appliqued onto the quilt! If the shapes from these templates
were used to piece blocks, they would require inset seams and,
oh boy, I’m not a fan of those. So, I’ll stick to applique, of which
I’m a fan, especially the fusible web type.
H. A. Kidd was very kind to donate these three templates, as
well as, the batting for the challenge.
The first template is the Jelly Pointer Template from SewEasy.
The second template is the Jelly Monster Template, also from
SewEasy.
Blue flannel for backing
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