Sun City is my second entry to the Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy of Amy's Creative Side. I have entered Sun City in the in the Scrappy Category.
I made Sun City as my response to my Guild President's Challenge - Log Cabin Revisited. The rules were simple - no more than 24" square, must use either black or white, and any variation of log cabin was acceptable.
Sun City is composed primarily of log cabin blocks. The strips are cut at 1", and finish at 1/2". This small quilt was fraught with big challenges, which I have documented in an earlier blogpost - Mini Quilt, Major Challenges.
Getting to Sun City was a long journey. There were wrong turns and several forks in the road.
In the end, I love how bright and cheerful it appears. The densely packed, multi-storeyed houses, with bright windows and black chimneys was worth the long, arduous path.
How do you choose what category fits best? Sun City is small, scrappy, art (since it is a wall quilt), modern (may be), and was quilted on a domestic machine.
I was struggling when I decided to look at the quilts in various categories.
Those that are art quilts are way more artistic. Sun City is not.
Those that are in the modern category do not suggest that they are modern - they scream it. Sun city does not.
Those that are in the domestic machine quilted have exquisite quilting. Sun City is quilted simply.
Small or Scrappy.
In the end, I chose to go with Scrappy since every fabric came from my stash and did not even make the tiniest dent in my stash.
I quilted it from the back to follow the slanted lines of the backing. This was also my first time using faced binding.
All entires to the President's Challenge received a small gift. There were no winners.
Honestly, I was bummed. I was competing. I was really stretching myself and then to receive a participation gift was an anti-climax. This time, I am just participating in the Bloggers festival. No expectations.
However, if you vote for SUN City, I will be over the MOON.
Please take a look at all of the quilts and be wowed and inspired. After all, that is the purpose of this festival.
I made Sun City as my response to my Guild President's Challenge - Log Cabin Revisited. The rules were simple - no more than 24" square, must use either black or white, and any variation of log cabin was acceptable.
Sun City is composed primarily of log cabin blocks. The strips are cut at 1", and finish at 1/2". This small quilt was fraught with big challenges, which I have documented in an earlier blogpost - Mini Quilt, Major Challenges.
Getting to Sun City was a long journey. There were wrong turns and several forks in the road.
In the end, I love how bright and cheerful it appears. The densely packed, multi-storeyed houses, with bright windows and black chimneys was worth the long, arduous path.
How do you choose what category fits best? Sun City is small, scrappy, art (since it is a wall quilt), modern (may be), and was quilted on a domestic machine.
I was struggling when I decided to look at the quilts in various categories.
Those that are art quilts are way more artistic. Sun City is not.
Those that are in the modern category do not suggest that they are modern - they scream it. Sun city does not.
Those that are in the domestic machine quilted have exquisite quilting. Sun City is quilted simply.
Small or Scrappy.
In the end, I chose to go with Scrappy since every fabric came from my stash and did not even make the tiniest dent in my stash.
I quilted it from the back to follow the slanted lines of the backing. This was also my first time using faced binding.
All entires to the President's Challenge received a small gift. There were no winners.
Honestly, I was bummed. I was competing. I was really stretching myself and then to receive a participation gift was an anti-climax. This time, I am just participating in the Bloggers festival. No expectations.
However, if you vote for SUN City, I will be over the MOON.
Please take a look at all of the quilts and be wowed and inspired. After all, that is the purpose of this festival.
