No Squares Here

Created for Project Quilting 14.5 – Sew Not a Square challenge. 

My first thought was to do something with triangles. Maybe equilateral triangles or flying geese. I went so far as to sketch geese flying across my fabric, but felt I did that last year. Maybe circles. So I sketched a series of circles tumbling down a piece of fabric.

I went to my stash and found a pretty cool yard of hand dyed fabric. I ripped a piece down the length, then ironed heat n bond lite to part of the remaining fabric and cut my circle shapes, then placed them so that I could get enough contrast so I could see my circles tumbling down.

Created by Diane Lapacek in rural Poynette, WI.

14" x 36"

Luscious Lane

Created for Project Quilting 10.2 Red, White and Blue Challenge

I had a crazy busy week planned, so I knew I had no time to procrastinate on the red, white and blue challenge. Strings are an easy go to for me so I made some red, white and blue string blocks and put them together to create a table runner with diagonal lines. I decided it was OK, but would be way more fun if I added some raw edge applique circles. 

I named it Luscious Lane because I thought it had the look of a Drunkard's Path.

14" x 36".
Created by Diane Lapacek near Poynette, WI.

Worlds to Explore

Created for the Project Quilting Season 7 "All About That Thread" challenge and also for the Lodi Valley Quilters Guild Circles challenge.

I started with 1 yard of my hand-dyed fabric, then found some circular objects and traced them on a piece of freezer paper.  I labeled each section and added marks on all the lines so I could get the pieces back together correctly.  All the circles were set in by machine and they laid flat when I was done!  Victory!

Different quilting in each circle and and simple lines in the background completed the quilting.

To fit the thread theme of the challenge, I got out the jar of rayon threads that sits by my machine.  It holds trimmings, tangled threads and a few spools that were only slightly wet after the water leak in my sewing room a few years back.  I thought they'd be okay, but they seem to break way too much when I try to use them now.  I layered threads between 2 pieces of water soluble stabilizer and quiltied the layers together densely to create "fabric" made of threads.  I cut circles in assorted sizes and stitched them to the quilt.  Done! All requirements satisfied for 2 challenges.

I struggled with a name for this quilt.  My first set of pictures was taken last night and they were terrible.  I took another set this morning in my sunroom and looking at the pictures on my screen, it came to me.  Worlds to Explore.  It relates not only to the image I was seeing, but to the techniques used and those yet to come in my quilting world.


24" x 32"
Created by Diane Lapacek near Poynette, WI.

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