Quilters by the Sea November Meeting -- the Challenge Quilts

Here are six of the seven Challenge Quilts from our meeting.  Seems that only two of us interpreted the directions to only include one orange fabric!!  Next time, I will just do what I like to do which is scrappy whatever the directions are!!  At least I have a nice table runner now which matches the clock which hangs beyond the table.

The one on the far left  in the above photo was the winner in all the categories!  It was a lovely piece by Joyce Marks .  I really liked the one on the far right as well and they were all really nice pieces and well thought out. 

The picture on the right shows the seventh of the challenge quilts and again the winning quilt on the bottom. 

These are just some of the 25 neonatal quilts that were turned in this month.  This club is filled with high achievers for sure.  There were some really nice quilts in this bunch.  (I managed to turn in five from my quilting frenzy this summer.)  

Becky did the next two quilts.  This one was especially lovely!

An ode to Thanksgiving!





















This was a beautiful quilt inspired by a class.

Nancy entertained us with a very funny story of trying to get tiny dots of color out of this quilt.  She ended up having to replace pieces after it was quilted and took her longer to do that than to finish the quilt in the first place.  We have all had similar experiences I am sure!!

This and the next were wonderful rugs made with strips!

A  lovely little landscape made by the same quilter who did the winning entry in the Challenge Quilts.

Great baskets.  Love the colors!

Lovely art quilt!

This pillow cover and the quilt below were huge and made as a gift.

This will be taught at one as part of a fiber program at one of the local colleges.

Again, I apologize for not getting everyone's name.  Maybe in the next few years I will be able to add more names to quilts.