Wednesday, November 2, 2011

4 Patch Challenge

Good Morning!  Last evening at Prairie Stitch's we had our last Scrap Club meeting.  Sandy our instructor had posed the challenge to make 4 patches, exchange them with other members of our club and make a quilt using the blocks. The quilts needed to be complete, as they were going to be judged.   What a wonderful variety of quilts were shown. 
First up was Susie's entry.

Glenda's entry was having artist growing pains.  She decided to add applique to the lower corner that morning.


Pat made this adorable minature.  She used the concept of the Disappearing 9 patch for her entry.  The back side of the quilt was also made up  of the same tiny blocks.
Pat was one of the winner's.
 
Donna made this cute Welcome banner.


Jo used her 4 patchs to surround this great paper pieced block.

Jinnie made wonderful stars.  She was a winner, also.

Jan M. put her blocks on point and used this wonderful cheddar fabric to surround them.

Mary R. used her 4 patches. plus a few more to make this wonderful quilt.

Jan H put hers together like an Irish Chain. She did fancy quilting in her solid colored blocks.

Sandy, our leader made this wonderful quilt. 


All of these quilts are winners in my book.  Some of the ladies made a lot of 4 patches to exchange, and others not so many. You received back the same number your brought in to exchange.  Several chose to add even more to their end creations.  Instead of one winner, two were chosen. Beth and Kathy, employees at the quilt shop were the judges. 
It makes me want to work on a 4 patch quilt. Several other projects and trips had been on my agenda instead.

I have been busy working on projects for Christmas, which I will share in a couple of days.

Have a great week.

8 comments:

Cheryl's Teapots2Quilting said...

Missed everyone at sew-in today. I was the only one that showed up. The quilts are really nice. Nice to see the ladies I know, too.

rozhearts said...

Hi Mary,
Well I think all those quilt creations deserve a prize I loved every one of them. What a great challenge I think I might suggest that to my little quilting group.
Thanks for sharing your photos.
(((HUGS))) Roz.

Anonymous said...

Hi Mary
Thank you for these photos. All the quilts are beautiful. This challenge is a good idea. What do you think about such a challenge between you and me for next year ? Each month we could sew several nine-patches and send them...
Happy quilting

Elyte said...

Fabulous quilts, I love all the different interpretations.
The old four patch is very versatile.

Kris said...

Oh, Mary - what wonderful quilts and what a fun exchange!! That would have been really hard to choose the two winners!! I loved them all with your leader Sandy's quilt as my fav!! Kris

Barb said...

Oh yes, they are all winners!!

Karen said...

Such variety. The quilt with the cheddar really stands out!

Abby and Stephanie said...

Wonderful to see how everyone interpreted the challenge into their own lovely quilt.