Project Quilting 8.6: Turn! Turn! Turn!

A Time to Sketch!

Project Quilting Season 8 is rapidly coming to a close.  This season's final challenge theme is "Time is Up."  How appropriate given this this week coincides wtih daylight savings, end of this season's series of challenges and I was away teaching for the first half of the week.  Luckily, our guild's quilting retreat is also this weekend meaning 3 days of uninterrupted quilting time!!!

As I was home packing and preparing for the retreat, I did a quick sketch and grabbed a variety of prints/solids, hoping to further tease out my design during the retreat weekend.

Once we arrived at the quilt retreat and I finished unloading everything, I got to work on my challenge entry.



First order of business was designing my background.  I laid out my fabric palette and started cutting out 3" strips.  I played around with the order as well as overlapped the strips to audition different widths.  Strips were trimmed down and quickly pieced together.  Then it was time to embellish with some fused applique!!  I used that fun metallic circles fabric to free-hand cut out clock parts:  gears and spiral doodads.  Solid black fabrics were used to create elements of my clock face:  minute marks, roman numerals and my clock hands (which I nearly forgot entirely!!).  It took some time to layout all the elements into a pleasing composition, and a bit of fussing until I was ready to commit by fusing it all into place.

Time To Choose Fabrics and Piece

To help hold all the fused elements into place, I doodled a dense all over fill combining some spirals/gears with a zig zag meander.

A Time to Quilt!

And here is my finished entry!  Online voting will begin Sunday, March 19th after 12 noon pst.  Be sure to vote for your favorites!  Hint-hint:  Mine is #83.

A Time to Finish:  Turn!  Turn!  Turn!, Finishes 20" x 18"

I had such a fun time participating in this season's Project Quilting challenges!  Six fun challenge themes yielding six fun & finished quilts!!  Many thanks to Kim & Trisha for all their behind the scenes work!  And special thanks to all the other Project Quilting Participants for all their camaraderie and creativity!!

Time for 6 New Quilts!!

And now it is turn for me to get back to enjoying my view of the Pacific Ocean!!

Time to Stroll Along the Beach!