Oh my! I nearly missed posting something in May. It has been busy. Last September, the quilt group I belong to started a crayon quilt challenge. We actually met in person at our fearless leader's house, where we social distanced in the back yard and had dinner and show and tell. Also, a brown paper bag was passed around and we each reached our hands in and pulled out five mystery crayons. What we did with the crayons was make a quilt with those colors and have done by our May 2021 meeting for a big reveal. I actually got my quilt done in February and hung on to it for the big reveal.
Of course it is a snowball quilt with owls in the centers. As it happens, my colors were brown, green bean green, and three different shades of blue. I do not have much brown (yuck!) fabric and less green bean green. So, my pal, A and I went to Joann's first, just to see what we could fine. She found one fabric that matched one of her crayons. I found these adorable owls; not exactly green bean green, but if you actually color with the crayons to see your colors, you can color less hard and get something a wee tad lighter. Then we went to the quilt crossing where they were very helpful with finding us additional fabrics, so they could lighten our wallets. I found several decent green bean greens for my quilt, along with that amazing blue I used on the corner triangles that pulled my whole quilt together. The good news is, I did go sorting through my stash and did find some wonderful blues with greens and combination blues, so I did use some of my stash. After this one went to my favorite long-arm quilter for quilting, I played around with eight-point stars using my left over crayon fabric colors. I did make a second quilt out of those left-overs. I think there is enough for two more quilts! Will it never end?!!!
