Design Wall Monday ~ July 1st

Back in February, I mentioned that I joined a local chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild. I've been enjoying the meetings, and it's helping to push me out of my comfort level :) In May, we had a workshop that taught us how to make an improvisational log cabin block. Most people brought various scraps, but I fell in love with this wonderful Mon Amie fabric line by Robert Kaufman Fabrics, so I decided to use them along with some other fabrics in my stash.

At the workshop, I made three of these blocks, then I made a fourth one at home:

I really enjoyed this process; it was quite liberating to not have to be exact with everything. It reminded me of  when I piece crazy quilt blocks, although we did not use foundation fabric like I do when crazy-quilting.

I have sewn these blocks into a top, using solid charcoal Kona fabric as a background. This will be my first quilt with a lot of "negative space" ~ big in the modern quilting movement. I would show a photo of the finished top, but I forgot to take a picture of it and right now, it is in my machine being quilted. I'm hoping to have it done by our July meeting, because all the workshop participants were challenged to make their improv log cabin blocks into some sort of finished project by then.

Did I mention that I'm calling this quilt "J'aime Paris"? I truly do love Paris. I've been there twice when my husband and I have chaperoned groups of high school students from his school on trips to Europe, and I'd love to go back sometime with just my husband to explore the city.

Be sure and see some of the other projects that are on quilters' design walls over at Judy's.

Happy stitching!