This was a "fabric challenge," meaning participants all received a small amount of the same fabrics and could make anything quilted. We could only add more of the same fabric (on our own dime), more prints from the same company, or solids. I added the blue solid piece to the front, and the green and white swirls on the back (who knew that my meager stash has some decent pieces of ~8-year old Michael Miller fabrics?) It's been so fun to look through the other projects inspired by this fabric, I wish the forum was public so I could link it up. A couple other projects turned out veeeerry similar to mine. As in, I hope they don't think I copied them because I honestly hadn't looked at the forum since people started posting their projects! Oh well, it wouldn't even really matter, inspiration is a good thing(!), except this is a *contest!* And the prize is fabric! Haha, I don't really expect to win, it was just a fun project.
I used the opportunity to teach myself improv piecing. In hindsight, you can waste a lot of fabric learning improv piecing, especially curves. Probably not the best choice for a fabric challenge when I have a 9"x22" piece of each fabric to work with. Well, it turned out! And I had a blast with the medallion style free-motion quilting.
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