It's this block, made by Kristen King.
Kristen used Heidi's pieced Christmas Tree block with some
bright children's prints. We loved seeing how this block looked in non-holiday
fabrics! She chose two prints from the Two by Two collection and accented them
with two dotted prints from the Graphix collection.
We asked Kristen a few questions about her block. Here's
what she had to say:
Q. How did you decide what fabrics to use?
Kristen: I had gone online to pick out some fabrics for the
challenge, but time got away from me and the deadline was approaching. I ran to
my local quilt store and had 15 minutes to find fabrics before they closed. I
love anything Noah's Ark, and the dot fabrics were just fun. I took home a
bunch of fat quarters and started playing.
Q. Did you know which prints you wanted to put in the different
block areas?
Kristen: I knew I wanted to use the orange in the points. I
love how the orange makes the octopus in the middle print stand out. I loved
the animal print and wanted it to be the large square in the center.
Q. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Kristen: I've been quilting for almost 25 years. I took a
sewing class when I was young and started making quilts for other people—I gave
them all away. Finally I decided I needed to start making some for me, as well!
Last year I made a block a day from a ''365 Quilt Blocks a Year'' calendar and
blogged about it. I loved it! It was kind of a challenge, and now I have a
2-1/2-foot tall pile of blocks that it's time to design some quilts to make
from them.
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| Kristen's pile of 366 blocks, made one a day during 2012 |
(You can find Kristen's blog here.)
Congratulations, Kristen! Your prize is in the mail.
Thanks to everyone who entered blocks in our Holiday Challenge!
