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 Hey readers, 

This past year the Mississippi Quilt Association (MQA)  president Susan Rademacher issued a challenge to make a quilt in honor of our 35th Anniversary.   The challenge was to make a quilt 35 x 35 or smaller out of jade and coral colors.  Jade and coral are the traditional colors of a 35th anniversary.   Also this year, I got to check a big one off of my bucket list - to go to Sisters, OR to go to the outdoor quilt show.  I also took a couple of classes there.  I took a class by Sijata Shah and before I went I decided to use the challenge colors for the class.  Her class was called architecture.  She did her sample quilt in solid moody colors.  she was hoping to evoke a city street.  So I bought a range of solids in the two colors before I left for Oregon.

This is Sujata's sample

So I attempted to do something similar for my challenge quilt.  Once I got it close, I realized it was not to size so I added some random blocks on one side.  I told my friend Cynthia that I didn't think I would finish it as I was so unhappy with how it was turning out.  She encouraged me to finish it so it would not become another UFO.  

 When I finished it, I didn't like that look, so I turned it 90 degrees.  Then that would give me horizontal lines I could quilt in words about MQA.  So I put it on the quilter and started on it.  So here is my finished project.  

If you zoom in on it you can see that I quilted a lot of different objects and words in the quilt.  

The back and the label. 

Sew on, 

Terry