AFTER QUILT BLOCK CONTEST
You’ve heard of the “after birth”, now here is the “after quilt”!
"Stargazing", the 2025 RNQG Hunter’s Star raffle quilt is now finished. It looks fabulous and has already begun traveling to venues where it will be seen by many (and likely generate lots of ticket sales)!
In the meantime, we have some blue and white fabric left over, due to members’ generous donations, and have decided to use it to make comfort quilts. The remnants have been assembled into After Quilts Kits. Each kit contains a variety of fabrics to make one quilt block. Until they run out, kits will be available for members to claim at all guild meetings and directly from the raffle quilt coordinators.
Members have already signed up for 26 blocks and 7 have been completed! They are all beautiful!
Please return all blocks before or at the September meeting.
In addition, we thought it might be fun to award prizes for “best” blocks we receive for the After Quilt! Categories are listed below.
- Best Overall Workmanship
- Best Ironing
- Best Design
- Most Creative
- Happiest Block ( gets a smile from viewer)
- Best Piecing
- Best Applique
- Most Blocks Made
Prizes will be selected by Sonia G and awarded at the October guild meeting
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
- Make a 12½ -inch square block using any pattern or technique you choose with the fabric provided. Feel free to add your own blues or whites to augment what is in your kit. Blocks in this category will be joined to make scrappy sampler quilts.
OR
- Request a Hunter's Star block kit and make a set of 4 (four) 8-inch Hunter's Square blocks. Depending on the number of blocks made in this category, they will be joined to make a Hunter's Star quilt or become the center for a scrappy sampler quilt.
ANY QUESTIONS OR TO ARRANGE FOR KIT DROP OFF PLEASE EMAIL carlabkeen@gmail
Carla Keen and Carol Coakley
P.S. The instructions included in the After Quilt Kits can be found here.
