Another Guild Challege

Skeleton Cat Quilt

Each year the Orange County Modern Quilt Guild has a philanthropy Challenge:
Choose a children's book and make a quilt inspired by it.
We then donate the quilt with the book to Orangewood Children's Home which is Orange County's group home for foster kids. This is one of our favorite challenges, you should see the quilts that come from it. I consider myself more of a traditional quilter, trying to turn modern but still I see myself following traditional styles especially in my free motion quilting.... I can not stand straight line quilting most of the time.

Skeleton Cat Quilt
39" x 63"

Here you can see the quilt is pieced and now I am quilting it. So far I chosen a bone motif  and a little ghost man inspired by the book.

I will be writing on the top and bottom of the quilt words like Clickety-clack, Rattle, rattle , clink. Tip tap .... and so on to imbed the book into the quilt. I am alleging going to make a pouch on the back so the book can be incerted and stay with the quilt.

Skeleton Cat by Kristyn Crow    
I love "Story Patches" - I have included one on the label of the quilt. When giving a Philanthropy Quilt I have been told you do not include personal information so this label mentions only the Orange County Modern Quilt Guild and I linked the Story Patch barcode to a YouTube of someone reading the book and showing the pages, this way the book can be read to the child without a reader actually being there. 

The main quilt blocks are from a pattern called: Buster Cat Does Halloween by Judi Maxwell (1999), that I found at a garage sale several years ago. It was partially fused and I am on a mission to clear my quilting room of unfinished projects and this just started to come all together. 

Little ghost motif ready to be quilted

Back of quilt
I used orange thread to showcase the quilting

Well this what I am working on today.


See you soon - Julie