Several of us from the Pittsburgh Modern Quilt Guild have been busy working away on our Madrona Road Challenge projects! We decided that our challenge would be a theme based on the story that accompanies the fabric line - we settled on roads and bridges. I've always had ideas for bridge quilts floating around in my head and I sat down with a friend of mine and came up with a pretty fun design!
I had a dimensioned drawing of my original idea but as I was putting the top together, I made some last minute changes and improvised some portions of the quilt. It was pretty liberating! I've never really done any improve piecing outside of a meeting workshop setting.
We had some beautiful weather this weekend, so it was a great opportunity to get a few pictures!
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| City of Bridges - font |
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| City of Bridges - Back |
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| City of Bridges - FMQ closeup |
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| City of Bridges - finished quilt! |
The finished dimensions are about 40.5" by 46.5" - it's a little crooked though...oh well! The first finish of 2013 turned out pretty well :) I'm off to work on a t-shirt quilt for a friend and keep on working on my FMQ skills with my Groove quilt!
This looks really cool! I especially love the quilting. Nicely done!
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