State Fair Parade 2 - Pink Nine Patch

Another project in the State Fair Parade! One of the reasons I like to enter different projects is to get a different opinion on my work. So I'm sharing with you what I sent to the state fair with the comments I received back - good & bad! Hopefully you will pick up some tips for your own projects!

This is a simple pink and white nine patch pattern I created a year ago as a sample for a class I was teaching. The pattern is from Alex Anderson's Start Quilting book. It was quick and easy project which I was easily able to finish in a day.

For quilting, I stippled in large, meandering loops over the entire piece. This was one of the larger projects I had stippled quilted as an allover pattern at the time. Little did I know at this point I would be hooked on machine quilting and start quilting larger quilts and different kinds of patterns.

The fabrics are created with Moda's Quilt Pink fabric line from a couple of years ago. Since Breast Cancer was the theme, I decided the label needed something special and different. It is an envelope label with machine embroidered lettering and the pink ribbon. It can be opened to reveal the information inside or shut to remain hidden.

No ribbon for this project, but I entered another 5 items in this same class, one of which received a blue ribbon, which means no ribbons for any of the other 5. But this was a neat project to stitch!

Here are the judge's comments:
Very nice job! Your solid pink doesn't go with your peachy pink. It would have been fun to use a darker pink like the star pattern in the print fabric. Love the label!!!

My thoughts and comments:

I agree; the solid pink and print pink are a little different color tones and are not the best blended together. My favorite part on this wall hanging - most definitely the label!