Mayflower Quilt Block Instructions for the Mayflower Quilters Guild President's Challenge

This is the fourth year of my six year stint of two years as vice-president followed by two years as president and will end with two years as past president.  Often the president issues a challenge during their last year and I would like to propose the following challenge to the members of the Mayflower Quilters Guild recognizing both our Mayflower name and our 50th anniversary.

CHALLENGE:  Make any quilted item using the instructions below for a mayflower block.  Make as many or as few mayflower blocks as you wish in any colour combination you choose.  The instructions I have provided will produce a 6" finished on point block but feel free to upsize or downsize the block to suit your project.  You can combine other blocks as well and in some fashion indicate that your creation is in recognition of our 50th anniversary, even if it is as simple as including it on your quilt label.

I plan on making a quilted item as well and our projects must be completed for the May 13th 2024 Annual Meeting of the Mayflower Quilters Guild which will be the last meeting I will chair as president.  That gives us all 8 months to make our quilted items and it would be great to see a record number of participants!

Whether you make a mug rug with one block or you make a quilt with 50 blocks, I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations!

Appalachian Autumn Completion

I pieced this block back in late October of 2020 including making the binding.  It is a quilt pattern called Appalachian Autumn by Bonnie Hunter.   I only made one block and didn't make the border either.  Today I got it on my quilt frame and quilted it with yellow thread with an edge to edge pantograph from Apricot Moon Designs called Maple Sugar.  It is about 25" square.

Here's a closeup of one of the maple leaves.

I have had a couple of finishes recently and a few more are planned.

Mayflower Scott Flanagan Block of the Month Five

The instructions for this block came out at the beginning of the month and I found time this week to make it.  This block is a traditional block called Monkey Wrench.  Several of the tips of my red triangles got eaten up by the border but I can live with it.

Here are my five blocks so far.

This will likely become a comfort quilt donated to charity. There will be 12 blocks in total.

Sewcialites Blocks 30 and 31

I made block 30 in the Sewcialites quilt along earlier this week and block 31 on Saturday this week.

Here's my block 30 Gratitude.

And my block 31 Noble.

Here's blocks 18 to 30 together.

Only 5 blocks are left is this quilt along.

Dear Jane - Three More Triangles

On Thursday, I made triangles LS7 and LS6 and on Friday I made triangle LS8.

LS7 was paper pieced and then three appliques were added.  I had a hard time photographing it.  There is much more of a contrast in the colours in person than the photo is showing.

LS6 was paper pieced and then one applique was added.

LS8 was paper pieced and then there were two triangular appliques which I chose not to add as they were so tiny.  There were also two medium petal shapes and two small petal shapes.  I really didn't want to make the small applique petals, so I made three medium petal shapes instead.

Ten more will complete the left side (LS)!

Dear Jane - Another Milestone

In my last Dear Jane post, I had made and sewn together all the central blocks.  Now I have sewn the four more triangles required to complete the top row and the top row is sewn together in one piece!

First up, on 29 April, I paper pieced block TR2.

On 1 May I made TR 12 which involved a bit of piecing and applique.  I chose to have the top arch of fabric go from one edge to the other instead of almost to each edge which would have involved applique instead of just simple curved piecing.  The leaf is applique and I'm still not great at it.....

On Friday 6 May I paper pieced block TR1.

And I also paper pieced TR 13.  There were two applique petal shapes which I chose not to add.  I think it looks just fine without them.

Then I got all 13 triangles sewn together with 14 black background triangles.  Here's a picture of my top row and the centre of my quilt.

So happy this is progressing well!  I just have to sew the top row to the quilt and start working on the second row of triangles.

Mayflower Mystery Quilt #1 Top Completed

I sewed all the blocks together several weeks ago and found time this week to cut out the inner and outer borders and get them attached to the quilt.  I actually cut my borders narrower than in the instructions as I wanted the finished quilt to be within the size range required to donate to Quilts of Valour Canada.  Here it is with the inner border added.

And here it is with the outer border added.

The pictures don't show the fabric used in the inner border very well, so here's a close up.  I'm also going to use this same fabric for the binding.

Now to get it quilted and donated.  I plan to quilt it with yellow/gold thread.