I am a member of Winchester Modern Quilters and our group was given an opportunity to exhibit our quilts at the 2025 Road2VA Quilt Show in June. Our group chose to show a previous quilt challenge that was done in 2021. New members (me!) were given the opportunity to submit one as well. I had 3 weeks to complete the task!

The guidelines to the MOD/POP challenge were to create a two color quilt with gray and one other color of the quilter’s choice - the POP color. The gray had to be the background and the POP color had to be in the shape of a triangle. I went through several designs and finally settled on an old favorite, the Log Cabin. I used the triangle Log Cabin element from Irene Roderick’s “Dancing With The Wall” and built it out from there.

I used a variation of log sizes to add interest.

I pieced in the gray background and traced out the final size with chalk.

I used my domestic machine with a walking foot to do a point to point quilting technique for the center triangle.

The finished center triangle!

I used my domestic machine with a walking foot to quilt straight lines for the remaining triangles.

I used a string and a marking pen to draw out the circle quilting pattern at measured distances. I ended up adding another set of circles for denser quilting.

I finished the quilt with a clean faced mitered edging.

The edging is on and held in place until it can be stitched down by hand on the back.

The edge is complete along with a custom label.

Close up of the quilted back.

Quilted back with a label and hanging sleeve.

Portal

April 2025

30” x 40”