I recently started reading a few quilting blogs to see what other quilters out there were up to and stumbled upon a blog that features a spin off of the show Project Runway. After reading about Project Quilting and seeing that season 3 had just started I decided to go for it. The first challenge was "Architectural Elements" which made church steeples pop into my head immediately! Being from the South where churches are everywhere, it seemed only natural to turn such a beautiful sight into a quilt. I love looking at the steeples and how they make for a beautiful skyline image. I immediately started looking online for the right picture to inspire this quilt. I found two that had elements that I loved. Then it was on to the fabric shop to pick out a few batiks that I thought would complete this project beautifully.
The first was a picture of a log cabin that had a wonderful cross shaped window on the front which I thought would transfer over and work great for supporting border blocks.
The second picture was of a beautiful steeple with a cross on the top which made a great center applique for the quilt. I machine appliqued the fabric pieces together to create the church steeple in the center of the quilt.
I was thrilled to see the fabrics come together to give it almost a stained glass look! The quilt finished out to be about 40" wide by 48" long.
Since I was wanting to stretch the envelope a little with this project and try some things I had never done before, I loaded some quilting embroidery machine designs into my machine and quilted it with angels around the church and feather crosses around the border.
It was fun watching an inspiration take shape and form into something useful and beautiful!
I am really looking forward to the next challenge but for now I am on to work on an apple core scrap quilt for my sister (I have acquired WAY to many scraps!)
Tasha
