Indigo Dye Party Quilt

I found another barn to photograph a quilt on.  I love taking photos of old barns and what better reason to get out and do so, than photographing a quilt completion.  This barn is SPECTACULAR!

Barns absolutely dwarf my quilts, but this is my favorite shot!  I always ask permission and sometimes I meet the nicest people.  This morning, I knew exactly which barn I wanted, and the farmer was very hospitable.  He said take all the pictures you want.  While I was doing so, he came out and chatted and opened a door for me, should I want to go inside.  I only took a half-step in, because it is very old, and no longer used except as a home by a flighty flock of pigeons.  His daughter-in-law also came and chatted, then the old guy came back and gave me some fresh picked tomatoes. 

 

Here is the close-up.  If you click on the photo, it will enlarge, so you can see more of the details.

Meanwhile, I took these photos on August 16, but I cannot "post" this until Elverta's birthday.  It is a gift for her 80th.  Her daughter arranged the "dye party' and she and Elverta's grandson each made a block for the quilt.  The rest of the blocks were made by the other five ladies in the Cloverdale Ladies Society.

Done and Done: Pentagon Quilt aka Crap Shoot

The challenge quilt from my Piecemakers of Idaho quilt group is completed.  The challenge was to bring instructions for one quilt block and pass them out to members, along with any fabric you wished to include, so they could make a block then bring it back at the next meeting.  I made twelve pentagon shapes (that is five sided, just in case) and pinned one to each of twelve sets of instructions.  When I passed them out to the group, I said that the five-sided piece of fabric, included, was to be the focus fabric, which means use strips of fabric that are the colors in the pentagon.  I got ten back at the next meeting.  I decided to wait to work on the quilt until I got the last two.  Four months later I got number 11, but I made another one for Jody, cause she wanted to make one and she turned that one in.  I got 12 altogether and I made 18 more.  I ran out of my focus fabric so I had to punt on the last block.

I had decided when I joined this challenge, that I would accept whatever people gave me.  Since more than one block had red or blue or orange or some of two of those NON-FOCUS FABRICS in them, it was okay because they balanced out.  It did turn out rather amazing looking for a quilt that has some blocks made by twelve different quilters, many who had difficulty with the construction concept.  I like it a lot and it makes me think of the quilters that contributed their blocks. 

Naturally, I photographed it on an old barn door.