Green Weaver a Yellow Green Crayon Challenge

I told myself that this year I wasn't going to do the crayon challenge at our guild.  And then, I took a crayon anyway. I pulled Yellow Green.   I remembered that color from when I was a kid!  It was one of those deceptive crayons that didn't actually color the same color as the way it looked.  Cornflower is another one of those tricky crayons.

Anyway, for the first time ever, I started right away.  I pulled out some ombre fabric from Dwaibo.  Perfect.  I wanted to do some sort of weaving of colors that incorporated the whole range of yellow green.

Some progress photos:

 I pinned the strips to a piece of white to hold things together.

 I also added other fabrics, some ribbon and some yarn.  Going with the "more is more" idea.

 Pulled out the yellow green threads.  Ended up using the Aurifil.

 The first thing I did was zigzag over all the yarn strings.  Then I quilting straight lines on each side of the raw strips.  After the quilting, I knew that I would never be able to trim all the strings, so I sprayed the whole thing with water and used a toothbrush to make more strings!

 The backing fabric came out of my mom's stash.  I think she made some kind of wreath with the fabric.  I turned the quilt in last Monday!  On to the next project.

Oh, and, with the left over strips I made a hot pad. :) Bad binding, but that's ok.  It will be spaghetti sauced soon.

Hexies in the Snow - Crayon Challenge White

 I never can resist a good challenge!  So when it was announced at the guild that there was a crayon challenge again this year, I stepped up and grabbed a baggie.  And got white.  The rules state you only need to use your color 50% of the piece, so everyone told me to just use it as background.  Where is the challenge in that??

 So I quickly put together a pile of white fabrics, various textures and shades of white.

 Laid out a 12"x12" plan.

 And started basting.  Let me tell you, this will be the last thing I glue baste.  The quickness of the beginning is not worth the trouble at the end.

I had originally thought this would be a good hand project before we left for our two week vacation out East.  But, I got the whole top put together before we even packed!

 Quilting and finishing didn't take long either.   A layer of heavy interfacing and a layer of thin batting.  Wiggle quilting along the seam lines.  It is a stitch setting on my machine.

 Et Voila, a finish.  I turned it in last month at our guild meeting.  It will be up for Silent Auction starting in September (I think)

 I took the quilt outside for photos, against my garden.  It is quite over taken by Evening Primrose.

 Shockingly white, here.

 I also spent some time trying to capture a good photo of a native bee visiting the flowers.

 She was much more interested in nectar than posing!