Geometric Texas

It's been more than a month since I have done any sewing. And that is a looooong time!

Last Saturday I led a workshop for the Oakville Quilters' Guild and was asked to do a little demonstration of the wavy line quilting. I brought along a few of the blocks that have been made for testing different quilts I designed and I also brought the paper pieced Geometric Texas. This was a paper pieced block designed by Kristy of Quiet Play Designs.

I don't usually choose to make something that is paper pieced. This is only the second block I have made using the method. But I couldn't resist. Kristy designed the block in an effort to help raise money for those displaced by the hurricane Harvey. And knowing I was planning to attend Quilt Market soon afterward made me feel a closeness to those Texans. I wanted to do what I could to promote the fund raiser any way I could and showed my finished block here on the blog and on social media.

When I went to Texas for Quilt Market in October, I finally had a chance to meet Kristy in person. She flew in from Australia for the event. 

I added white and grey borders to make my block bigger and quilted using my organic wavy lines during the demonstration at the workshop. The backing is some random print I found in my stash and it has a lot of sewing notions and a little love so I thought it would make a cute backing.

When I finished the quilting on this Texas block I decided to make it into a wall hanging to gift to my sister for Christmas. I added corner tabs for hanging and then finished it off with a black binding.

My sister Georgina and I drove down to Texas from Ontario Canada. And it was the first time in over 35 years that we had a chance to hang out together and have some fun. I do hope that we will have a chance to do something like this again, but even if we don't, I want to make sure she remembers our trip for years to come.

We had joked around during our trip about getting a tattoo of Texas and all the states we passed through. But I really think this was a more fitting tribute to our trip and the memories we made along the way.

The "Geometric Texas" quilted wall hanging finished at 19" x 20"

and was the 59th use of my 2nd edition of 100 labels

ordered from Ikaprint.

Linking up to Finish it up Friday with 

Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts

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