The Quilter's Palette is where I signed up for my first quilting lessons in Sep 2009. Leslie Edell was my teacher who started me on my journey of learning to quilt. Each week I was excited to learn not only the basics, but to be inspired to make my own creations. The store had a contest call the Paint Can Challenge 2010.
How could I resist picking up a paint can with the challenge fabric and guidelines for the competition. The challenge fabric was chocolate swirls - sorry I can't remember the name of the supplier. The finished quilt had to be original and larger than 30x30 inches and smaller than 50x50 inches, and of course feature the challenge fabric in main part of the quilt.
I wanted to try the snowball block so I could practise my half-square triangles, and use lots of differrent greens for the mint, and various browns including challenge fabric for the chocolates. It was fun mixing them all up. I used Thangles to create the half-square triangles. Lynn, a fellow novice quilter in my class, had introduced these to me and they really worked!
The Prairie Points depict the fancy packaging in a box of chocolates. I enjoyed making these and using the various mint greens from the body of the quilt.As a novice quilter, I gots lots of opportunity to try new techniques in this quilt - and learn from my mistakes! I will let you find them.... However, this is a journey and I am enjoying all the bumps and cross-roads.
