2008 Pella Area Quilt Guild Raffle Quilt!

On Saturday, November 10, I spent the day with my fellow quilting buddy and friend, Nancy, working on the top for the raffle quilt for the Pella Area Quilt Guild. The raffle quilt is raffled off each year during the Tulip Time Quilt Show.

This year we requested 4” finished (4.5” unfinished) blocks that were a square inside a square, and where the colors should be in the same family for the inner square and outer logs. We wanted to see if it was possible to create a color wash effect of sorts… but we weren’t sure what we would get! :)

After requesting members to scour their stashes and make blocks, we ended up receiving ~300 blocks and were able to create a top that was 17 blocks wide by 20 blocks long. I wanted to post the end result of the top! Now it will be quilted and pictures will be taken so that the quilt can be advertised along with the newsletter.



We had a great time on Saturday. When I arrived at 9 AM, Nancy had the blocks laid out on the living room floor and after a little bit of rearranging, we were ready to go. Other than a break to run to the costume shop and then to eat lunch, we worked throughout the day until 5 PM. It sure was a lot of fun!

I also included a picture of Lani sitting on the quilt… Lani loved to ‘help’ us out on Saturday! She is such a sweet dog! I also thought it was neat to have a picture of a black and white dog on the colorful quilt. :)



Erin