The Great New Zealand Quilt Show opened today in Rotorua, and I can finally show you my entries in the Aotearoa Quilters Lime Challenge.
First up is "Not Your Grandmother's Garden".
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| 12" wide x 16" high |
At first glance you might think these are hexagons, but they're not! Hence the name, and the fact I'd just bought some new jeans from Not Your Daughter's Jeans.
I love experimenting with geometric shapes, and I wanted to try the Fiesta Gitana pattern in Millefiori Quilts 4 by Willyne Hammerstein.
I hand pieced this mini quilt, and then I machine quilted it because the joins are quite bulky, even with 1/4" seam allowances. And of course, time was running out!
I love lime, and I'm happy with my mini quilt. I did learn that it's hard to draw the stitching lines for pieces with long, sharp points like the stars at the centre of these blocks. My pencil wouldn't go right to the tip, so I fudged it a bit when I did the hand piecing.
My second Lime quilt is "The Tea is Delicious".
This quilt was an after thought because I'd bought this quirky Japanese fabric for the Lime challenge, and I didn't end up using it in my first entry above.
So, I just cut a piece to the required size, and added a combination of hand and machine quilting. The name was already there in the fabric - The tea is delicious.
