Friday update: challenge completed + using left overs

 

My entry for the guild challenge is quilted, bound, and labeled.   

This is all I will show you because it's a surprise. The reveal is at the September 6 guild meeting. 

At the PieFest in 2008 I made a lot of red/black/white flying geese.  They are 3" x 5-1/2" unfinished.   I used five in this project.  

I put the remaining geese on the design wall.  I contemplated blocks -- Yankee puzzle, Louisiana, variable star -- but I wanted to get something done before I lost heart or got distracted by something else.  I didn't fuss much with the color distribution but I made about 10 more geese to liven things up (there were several dark, dark red + dark black that I didn't include).   20 geese @ 2.5" finished = 50".  The piece of black grid print (reads as gray) was 51" long.  That settled it.

45 x 60.  

I've achieved all my July goals*  and will link this post to Elm Street Quilts OMG

*(1) two quilts for Nancy's friend's mission project, (2) string blocks for a swap, (3) placemats for us, (4) guild challenge, (5) something red (=the guild challenge again).

I'm also linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? Peacock Party

Finished or Not Friday