Faithful Circle Quilt Show - Project Linus Challenge

The Faithful Circle Quilters show was last weekend. I did White Glove each day...a drop in the bucket compared to some other volunteers! It ran like clockwork and was just great - I heard there were over 300 quilts on display!

My first shift was in the "Cuddly Critters" room. Last year the guild received a donation of, well, a TON of fabric. A quilter was moving and downsizing. We had 5 bins stuffed with fabric! So naturally, there was a Challenge involved...and as we usually do with our challenges, all the finished quilts would be donated to Project Linus. OK. That's nice. BUT (honestly, you knew there had to be a "but") the real challenge wasn't so much making the quilt - it was more that there pretty much wasn't any kid-friendly fabric in these bins and we had to make kid-friendly quilts! Specifically...with animals as the theme! Everyone that participated got a bag of miscellaneous fabric and the challenge was ON! We could add to it, but had to use it. One poor soul got a bag of nothing but red and black Asian fabric! WTF! And talk about rising to the challenge (!), she made the focus of her quilt a lovely panda...so appropriate.

Here are just a few examples:

Faithful Circle Quilters - Quilt Show

I registered 4 quilts for my guild's quilt show in April - pretty good for me!

Honestly, I had to go looking for quilts to enter - I'm not very good at finishing things! Here they are:

Barnsley - Bonnie Hunter's Jamestown Landing pattern. I took a class with her at Quilt Odyssey in Hershey PA in 2013 and finished it in 2015 so I could use it on my guest bed in the new house:

Barnsley Autumn - When we were de-cluttering our house to list so we could move here, I had to completely dismantle my studio and make it look like a "normal" bedroom again. Essentially I put every.single.thing. into storage but I did keep my Jem Platinum so I could at least do a little bit of sewing if I got desperate. Well...my DH actually gave me kit for Christmas that year so that I could do a little quilting...and this is it:

Back in 2012 I took a class with Gyleen Fitzgerald using her pineapple block ruler. Easy Peasy. And I used up a bazillion scraps doing it - only I think scraps get busy in those bins because the pile did not decrease at.all. I quilted it last week just so I could enter it into the show - AND it is on my UFO list for 2016, so now when that number comes up at Spring Water Designs - I'm already DONE!

And finally just a little wall hanging I made at a guild retreat back in 2012. It was a Connecting Threads kit.