Category Archives: Guild Challenges
Carol Lawrence Challenge: The Pillow
Challenge
Create a pillow. Any size, shape, technique.
The Zipper Challenge
This is a BONUS Challenge. A challenge for those who laugh in the face of the ZIPPER. Those who could eat the Zipper for Breakfast. Those who want to conquer their fear of the ZIPPER!!!
This challenge will be showcased at the December Guild Meeting.
Challenge:
Make a small project that contains a zipper.
Christmas Exchange: Fabric Basket
Christmas Exchange: Fabric box
Exchange Info:
For this exchange you will be making this sweet fabric box and filling it with fat eighths, or fat quarters or other sewing supplies.
The DETAILS:
- Must be made of GOOD QUALITY COTTON Material
- Use the TUTORIAL HERE to create your fabric box.
- Please use something other than Christmas fabric so people can use their boxes all year round.
On Exchange Day: December Guild Meeting
- You will be gifting your fabric box and sewing goodies to some lucky person.
Mystery Quilt 2014
Mystery Quilt Challenge 2014:
THE STUDY OF FABRIC
Do you have a sense of adventure? Like a little mystery in your life? Then “the game is on”. Join us this year for the 2014 edition of the Mystery Quilt Challenge.
For this challenge you can make a wall hanging (40”x40” without borders) or a lap quilt (40”x56” without borders).
Fabric requirements will be given at the first guild meeting and the first clue will be given out to participants in October. There will be a total of 6 clues, with the last clue unveiling the layout in March.
Blocks will finish to 8” in the quilt (8.5” unfinished).
Fabric Requirements: A good contrast between light and dark fabrics are suggested.
|
Fabric |
Wall hanging |
Lap Quilt |
|
Fat Eighths (contrasting fabrics) |
8 |
14 |
|
Background (light or dark) |
1.5 meters |
2 meters |
|
Borders (OPTIONAL) |
1/3 meter |
1/2 meter |
This quilt will also be wonderful as a TWO COLOR quilt.
|
Two Color Quilt Fabric |
Wall hanging |
Lap Quilt |
|
Contrasting Fabric |
1 meters |
1 3/4 meters |
|
Background (light or dark) |
1.5 meters |
2 meters |
|
Borders (OPTIONAL) |
1/3 meter |
1/2 meter |
The fabric requirements shown above are ONLY for the pieced portion of the quilt top with optional plain borders. If you are going to make pieced borders, you will want a couple more fat eighths.
If you have a large “scrap stash,” this is a really fun quilt to make with scraps. You may choose to make the top from all scraps for both the dark and light fabrics; or use dark scraps and one single light background fabric.
Remember that “light” or “background” fabric in a quilt can be something other than white or cream colored fabric.
Basics Bootcamp Quilt
Challenge:
Create a QUILT TOP using the BLOCKS that were featured in our Tech Talks.
Guidelines:
- Create the QUILT TOP using the blocks that were featured in our Tech Talks
- You decide the setting
- You decide if it has sashing, borders, or needs additional blocks to complete the top
FunQi Challenge: Screaming Stars
Challenge:
Create a STAR quilt. The stars can be any size, any pattern, and/or setting. The quilt can be made of one star, multiple stars, the same pattern of stars or a mix of different stars, but it has to SCREAM “I am a STAR quilt.”
Guidelines:
- Stars can be any size, pattern, or shape.
Here is a link to some examples of STARS quilts.
Quilts Around the World
Welcome everyone to another exciting year at The Flying Needles Quilt Guild.
The planning committee has come up with a terrific program for you that we hope you really enjoy.
This year we will be taking a TRIP AROUND THE WORLD through quilts. We will be looking at the quilts and quilting techniques from England, Hawaii, Japan, African, South Africa, Ireland and the Amish Country in America.
Each guild Saturday will begin with a show and tell, followed by a demo and time to sew the afternoon away. The exception to this is our Wonderful Potluck Meetings in September, December and June.
Our schedule for this year is….
September 14: First meeting of the year – Show and Tell; Program Presentation; Potluck; Garage Sale with Donna
October 12: Trip Around the World with Jen – See a demo on how to construct the Trip Around the World quilt
November 9: England with Trish
December 14: Christmas Exchange – Show and Tell; Christmas Exchange; Potluck
January 11: Hawaii with Denise
February 8: Japan with Jen
March 8: Amish Country with Jan
April 12: Africa and South Africa with Shirley H.
May 10: Ireland with Donna
June 14: Final Guild Meeting of this year – Show and Tell; Challenge Showcase Potluck
Our Challenges for this year are: (please click the link for more details about each challenge)
- The FUNQI Challenge: Make a Trip Around the World Quilt (for June)
- Brown Bag Challenge 2013 (for June)
- Carol Lawrence Challenge: Sewing Chatelaines (for June)
- Christmas Exchange: Candle Mats (for December)
We will also be hosting a club this year, run by Beth, making the Vingette in Stitches Quilt by Leanne Beasley.
Looking forward to a terrific year with you all.
FUNQI Challenge 2013: Trip Around the World
FUNQI Challenge: Trip Around the World
Courtesy of Amish Country Lane Quilts
http://www.amishcountrylanes.com
Challenge:
Create a TRIP AROUND THE WORLD quilt
Guidelines:
- Must use the Trip around the World block (the 6 strip block is most common)
- You decide what setting you will use for the quilt
- Blocks can be any size, strips can be any size (2.5” strips are the most common)
- You will need a MINIMUM of 4 blocks in your quilt
In October there will be a demo on how to create the Trip Around the World block using the TUBE method.
To view some Trip Around the World Quits try here or here or here
For a tutorial on the Trip around the World Block (this is a similar method to the one that is a demo in October.)
Brown Bag Challenge 2013
The Brown Bag Challenge 2013
Create a FINISHED quilt using the fabrics in a brown bag while adding 1 meter of your own fabric that will compliment the fabric that are found in the brown bag.
However, this year you will not be creating your quilt for a certain individual. Instead you will be creating a FINISHED quilt that SOMEONE ELSE from the brown bag challenge group will get.
Basically, in June all the brown bags, with FINISHED quilts, will be returned. Each person who brought back a brown bag will get to select a brown bag from the pile and that will be their finished quilt. Meaning – it might not be the quilt made with the fabrics that you brought originally.
In The Brown Bag
- 4 fat quarters
- Your name so we know who to credit the fabric to
The Details
- Each participant will be selecting a brown bag – please do not put your name on the outside of the bag. Instead please put a note inside the bag so we know where the fabric came from.
- Each participant will add 1 meter of fabric that compliments the four fat quarters in the bag
- Each participant will create a FINISHED quilt for the June meeting using the 4 fat quarters and the 1 meter of fabric (pieced, quilted, bound)
- In June the finished quilts, in a brown bag, will be brought to the meeting for exchange
YOU MUST:
- Please include a label on the back of your quilt listing who made it, who the fabric came from and the year it was complete. Feel free to add any other details you feel is important. For example that it was a brown bag challenge
- FOLLOW THE RULES – do not put fabric in the bag that EQUALS 4 fat quarters. It isn’t fair to the person who gets your bag to have smaller cuts of fabric it limits what they can do. Just put in the 4 fat quarters!
If for some reason you are not able to continue with the challenge once you have signed up please contact Jen to make arrangements.
The Flying Needles Quilt Guild 