Once again, I have a wonderfully talented guest judge for this week – Ryan Walsh of ‘I’m Just a Guy Who Quilts’. I discovered Ryan on twitter and have enjoyed his blog for quite awhile. Here’s a little bio that Ryan sent me so you can all learn a little more about him:

“Ryan Walsh is a self taught quilter and quilt designer who enjoys taking classic quilt designs and updating them with a modern twist. He’s employed full time as a NYS Licensed Funeral Director and manages a funeral establishment in his hometown. A busy dad, the majority of his quilting adventures occur in the late hours of the night after his kids are in bed!

Ryan uses quilting as a vehicle to satisfy his never ending need to be creative. His work is based around combining traditional piecing methods with free-style construction techniques. As a way to challenge his ability, Ryan participates in several online bees and quilt related swaps every year. When he’s not quilting, Ryan also enjoys photography, embroidery, collage, crocheting, sightseeing and spending time with his family.

Co-owner of the quilt design company, Patchwork Squared (www.patchworksquared.com), Ryan currently resides in the Catskill Mountain region of Upstate New York with his wife and children. To see more of Ryan’s work you can visit his blog at: www.ryanwalshquilts.com.”

I just want to thank Ryan right now for taking the time to critique the projects and support this fun little venture. I can’t wait to see all the entries that he’ll have to judge! I also had to laugh when I saw that Diane had made the challenge Flying Geese as Ryan is a block designer for the Blogger’s Block A Palooza Quilt Along (his block will be posted on his blog this Thursday) that has been all about Flying Geese and Nine Patches! Too ironic!

March 19th is National Quilting Day this year.  In honor of this great day my Quiltsy Team on etsy decided to do something special. 

Each person that signed up is making a log cabin block (in cool family colors - blues, greens and/or purples) trimmed to 12-1/2 inches. Those are the only requirements. How many "logs", width of logs etc., is completely open to individual interpretation.

If they are not the first person, each participant sews their block onto those before them, adding to the row before mailing it to the next person in their row. The last person sends the entire row to annsquiltnstuff who is going to finish the quilt for us.

Before mailing it on, we were asked to take pictures of us with our portion of the quilt in the location we made it (above you can see me at my apple orchard with our two emus – Mac ‘n’ Tosh) in the background.  This way we can show people all the different places the quilt was created.  The next step is to mail the strip to the next person on the list.  When the row is complete they will all be mailed to a quiltsy member to finish up the quilt.  When this is all said and done – the quilt will be listed in the Quiltsy Shop on etsy to help raise money to support our team and future activities. 

45 members are signed up to participate in this little adventure – I can’t wait to see the final quilt!Just before the weekend I received a squishy little package containing a beautiful start to a fabulous quilt row.  One of the blocks was done by HeatherLairDesigns (Gimli, Manitoba, Canada) and the other by lmkquilts (Owatoma, MN).   Of course – I couldn’t stick to the traditional log cabin so I had to ‘wonkify’ mine a bit – I had a lot of fun with this one! All three in a row…(the NORTH row).   And here’s a picture of me with the North Row in front of our barn quilt.  And now, I have the North Row all packaged up and it will head to Yellow Springs, OH, for ForQuiltsSake to add onto it next!

 

Keep an eye on the Quiltsy Blog to see more about the rest of the rows (and watch as this one grows). 

 

And, a special thanks to Whimbrella for organizing all this and really getting the ball rolling – what fun!

Hello, everyone.  Welcome to Season 2, Challenge 5 of Project Quilting.  

To read more about Project Quilting Here:  http://kimscraftyapple.blogspot.com/2010/04/project-quilting.html

This week’s PRIZES!

The winner of the Public vote will take home $10 to SpiceBerryCottage  and Downloadable Quilter's Cookbook 2009 from the QuiltingGallery

The winner of the Judges Choice will take home $10 to FabricsNQuilts and $10 to Dye Candy.

TWO randomly drawn (by my two beauties) participants in this weeks challenge will take home either $20 for Machine Quilting Services from QuiltsbyBarb OR a pdf of 2 maze quilt patterns from Lisa Penny!

Everyone that enters a piece for this challenge can decide if they want their name entered in a drawing for $50 off the 2011 Quilts by Barb Quilt Retreat Getaway Weekend.

This weeks’ JUDGES!

Diane Lapacek

Barb Raisbeck

Lisa Penny

Guest Judge:  Ryan Walsh of I’m Just a Guy Who Quilts

Challenge 5 - Flying Geese

We haven't used a traditional block for inspiration yet in Season 2, so I think it's time.

1.  Your inspiration for Challenge 5 is Flying Geese.  I'm sure you've all seen the traditional flying geese.  Your challenge is to let them inspire you to do something unexpected.

2.  For an extra twist this week, you are required to use a complimentary (opposites on the color wheel) color scheme.

3.  Please remember that these projects need to be created during the week of the challenge.

4.  POST your entries with a description of your creative process, including where you are (ie, I create in Madison, WI) and the size of your project by Sunday, March 13th, 2011, at noon, CDT, to this flickr group – Project QUILTING with KimsCraftyApple: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1401824@N21/ OR email a picture/description of your completed project to lapaceksorchard@gmail.com with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line.

5. If this is the first Project Quilting challenge you've participated in, please email Kim at lapaceksorchard@gmail.com with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line so that Kim can send you feedback from the judges and keep you updated on the behind the scenes going-ons.

Remember, these challenges are intended to help you ‘Think Outside the Square’.  Be creative.  Take a risk. Do something no one else will think of doing.

I managed to get to Block #12 from SugarStitches today.  I managed to complete this one with NO seem ripping – head is definitely starting to clear up.

And here’s a quick snapshot of all 12 blocks today.   I can’t believe there’s only 2 weeks left to go…

SCHEDULE:

Monday, January 24
Block #1: John Adams
Quilt Dad

• MY BLOCK

Thursday, January 27
Block #2: Elizabeth Hartman
Oh, Fransson!

• MY BLOCK

Monday, January 31
Block #3: Amanda Sasikirana
sasikirana handmade

• MY BLOCK

Thursday, February 3
Block #4: Cherri House
Cherry House Quilts

• MY BLOCK

Monday, February 7
Block #5: Kaye Prince
Miss Print

• MY BLOCK

Thursday, February 10
Block #6: Monica Solorio-Snow
Happy Zombie

• MY BLOCK

Monday, February 14 Happy Valentine's Day!
Block #7: Heather Bostic
House of a la Mode

• MY BLOCK

Thursday, February 17
Block #8: Angela Yosten
Moda Home Mom

• MY BLOCK

Monday, February 21
Block #9: Scott Hansen
Blue Nickel Studios

• MY BLOCK

Thursday, February 24
Block #10: Amy Ellis
Amy's Creative Side

• MY BLOCK

Monday, February 28
Block #11: Fat Quarterly team
Fat Quarterly

• My BLOCK

Thursday, March 3
Block #12: Jennifer Davis
Sugar Stitches

Monday, March 7
Block #13: Tia Curtis
Camp Follower Bags & Quilts

Thursday, March 10
Block #14: Ryan Walsh
I'm Just a Guy Who Quilts

Monday, March 14
Block #15: Kerri Horsley
lovely little handmades

Thursday, March 17
Block #16: Vanessa Christenson
V and Co.

Thursday, March 24
Block layout: Julie Herman & Natalia Bonner
Jaybird Quilts and Piece N Quilt

TBD
Wrap-up, charity auction

TO See what everyone’s working on check out the flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bloggersblockapalooza/

I’m here to announce the rest of the prize winners!

First…the winner of the coffee cozy from QuiltingDiva for this weeks Public Comment Prize!  This was determined using the True Random Number Generator on www.random.org.

So…the 19th comment is the winner and that is…..

Deb said...

I just blogged about this weeks entries and included a link sending folks over here. DancingApronFarmer.blogspot.com
Cool stuff, Kim. Glad you are on the mend!
Happy B-day to Capri!!

 

And now onto the random drawing winners… So…I filled the hat with all the eligible participants and then had my gorgeous little girls choose the names… Capri was the first to choose for $10 to SpiceBerryCottage and she picked… Pastor Katie Bishop!

Pastor Katie Bishop Next…Cedi is choosing the winner of $20 for Machine Quilting Services from QuiltsbyBarb and Cedi chose – All Things Belle!And now it’s up to Capri to choose the final winner of a pdf of 2 maze quilt patterns from Lisa Penny! And…if you can read it…Capri picked out Dashasel! 

Congratulations to all the winners this week and to all the participants of the challenge that completed a fantastic project in just one week!