Salt and Sand Blog Hop

 Today is my day to participate in the Salt and Sand Blog Hop hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt and Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks.

This Storm at Sea Quilt was part of a family round robin several years back.  My sister-in-law Becky planned it for me because she drew my name.  She cut everything and bagged the pieces for monthly progress.  We each passed it around each month along with the other quilt kits we assembled for each other - 6 of us total.  The fun part was not knowing which quilt was ours.  We all started with the same fat quarter bundle and had to add fabrics to it.  I worked on this during the round robin without even knowing it was mine.  It was super fun!

Then there was this sliced quilt challenge I participated in.  It just seemed like it needed to be displayed in this blog hop. 

Back in 2009, this was probably the most challenging and yet, the most fun project I had ever worked on!! I truly want to do it again someday. Six ladies decided to try our hands at a "sliced quilt". The rules were to find a picture to be recreated as a quilt, blow it up to the actual finished size, slice it into six pieces, and mail them out to each other. We all lived in various parts of the state and were not able to see each other's work until the unveiling. Bev chose an underwater ocean scene. Sidney - holding the piece - really shined in her ability to paint fabric. I believe she did some beautiful painting mixed with other quilting techniques on every piece. I truly feel like she was the most talented and most inspiring. Sidney did this section of Bev's quilt. 

This Storm at Sea section was made by me.  I just felt that this pattern was fitting.  It was mostly paper pieced.  The only thing that really stood out in my section was the cute little blue and yellow fish. 

Sidney was such a gifted fabric painter.  It was wonderful how she painted little details in on the sea life below.

Bev's finish!  I love how it turned out!

If you would like to see my finished sliced quilt from the same group, click here.

It is quilted here.

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