Target Practice Mini Quilt

This is the final month of the Project Quilting Cherrywood off season Focus Through the Prism challenge. I'm sad to see it end, but super excited for another season of Project Quilting starting in January.

This month the challenge block was the snowball block. My first thought was, uh oh... I left orange for last and couldn't think of anything at first. The reason I left orange last was to support RSD/CRPS awareness month. Color the World Orange was Monday November 2. 

I randomly started making different size snowballs and tossing them at my design  wall. When I posted on our Facebook group joking about throwing a ball at the snowballs the name Target Pracrice was suggested by Jo and I loved it so I ran with it. I created some more small snowballs and tossed them on the board. From there I started piecing the quilt around where the blocks landed. They only moved if I had to make piecing easier. 

Once it was all together I kept my theme and quilted circles into it using the perfect color orange of Aurifil. It matched the circles in my background fabric perfectly! 

I chose to do the binding on the background fabric to make it seem like it kept going. 

This was a fun quilt to finish the challenge  with. Thanks Kim for all the fun you provided in the off season! 

Target Practice 

20"x 20"

Machine pieced

Machine quilted

Hand bound

And of course an obligatory Maggie pic... or two. 

Maggie and Matt smiled so nicely for the camera.

And here Maggie and CJ are both smiling. She had a lot of attention on Thanksgiving.

Strawberry Patch Mini Quilt

Another month of Project Quilting is over, only one more left. These have been some fun challenges and it is awesome to have at least one finished quilt each month. 

This months challenge was the nine patch. For some reason I was really stumped with this block.  I pulled out my  cherrywood   fabrics and chose the red this month.it sat for weeks until I decided to just cut it and start playing to figure out a design. I paired the cherrywood with a great moda print of pink and red squares. 

In the disappearing none patch blocks I did reverse appliqué circles to mimic the circles on the print. 

The tiny nine patches are only 1.5" square. Sometimes it's fun to go small. The red strips are just a quarter inch wide. I liked the little pops of red it gave. 

The quilting is just simple straight lines to enhance my strawberry patch mini. 

Sad there is only one more month of these cherrywood Project Quilting off season focus through the prisom  challenges. But i am excited to find out what our final block will be! 

And as usual, a quick pic of miss Maggie with my quilt. She is such a great model. 

I interrupted her playing with her own quilt to model mine.