Project Quilting 11.1 - Notably Numeric

Project Quilting is back!  SO, I'll be BLOGGING again, at least for the next 12 weeks!  Life has been absolutely crazy hectic since my last post and I have barely had time for sewing, let alone writing posts.  Stress, constant busy, new job, hospital stays and life in general left me feeling not at all like myself.  I decided to take back some time for ME in the new year and started sewing along with the Project Quilting Quilt Along during Christmas break a couple of weeks ago.  I ended up not finishing the project, simply because it was going to be too big to hang in my sewing room. It doesn't even fit on my design wall!   I will likely take it apart and use the pieces for individual projects in the future, though, because the spools are pretty cute!

I had so much fun participating in Project Quilting last year, that I'm going to make a go of it again!  I have no idea if I'll be able to keep up.  Life is still busy with a new job, AND, I'm helping to costume a musical that my daughters are participating in this month.  So, we'll see.  But I have to at least try!  And I'm off to a good start!

The first challenge issued by Kim and Trish was "Notably Numeric."  I enjoy Sudoku and I try to do a puzzle every day, either with paper and pencil or on my phone.  So that became the inspiration for my numerical mini quilt . I decided to represent a puzzle in progress, rather than a completed one, because its the process that I enjoy the most, not finishing.  Similar to quilting!  I grabbed a puzzle book, made one pass over each column and row, filling in the numbers that were easy to find, and then stopped.  I used that as my pattern for the nine blocks.

I love the prints in the Elementary line!  So cute and So Mathy!

I had a fat quarter of a cute number print.   There was no selvage, so I can't tell you the maker or the line.  If someone recognizes it, please let me know!  I decided to use that for my numbers.  I had some 1 1/2 inch squares of Elementary  by Sweetwater that I knew would be perfect for the "empty" squares.  I started fussy cutting numbers from the print, and quickly realized that some of the numbers were not going to work with inch and a half squares.  But, I really wanted to use those Elementary squares, and I didn't have another print with numbers that would work.  So, I decided to go ahead.  I knew I'd have some wonky, chopped off numbers.  But this little quilt is only going to hang on the wall behind my sewing machine.  Its not getting judged or sold or given away.  It's about the process, so, ONWARD!

I think it turned out pretty cute!  And it was a LOT of fun!  If  by some chance you're reading this and you DIDN'T come from the link on Kim's blog, then you should definitely head over there to check out all the entries.  There are 82 entries linked already, and there are still 13 hours to go until the deadline!  Its fun to see how much the challenge grows each year, and even more fun to be a part of it!