Ideas for One Yard Challenge....
 

In our senior center group we have a one yard challenge. It's where we each (7 of us)brought a yard of black and white fabric. We tore it in half and passed it to the right. Then the person on the right tore that piece in half and passed it to the right, etc. You get the picture.

Now the challenge...I have 7 pieces of varying amounts of black and white fabric. We are able to purchase one other piece of fabric of any amount we choose to add to the black and whites. We are to make something at least 39" by 40" with these pieces. So, I am asking what would you do with these pieces and one extra piece?

This challenge can be found at

http://www.heirloomcreations.net/sew...and-challenge/

I have written to the blogger to see what they have done with their challenge but they don't have pictures yet. :( Thanks, I hope this isn't cheating by asking for ideas....but I am just lost as to what to do with these b/w fabrics. Thank you for your help.

Sandy

Can you post a picture of your fabrics? It might help spark an idea because right now....I've got zip.:D

Here are my fabrics[ATTACH=CONFIG]466512[/ATTACH]
The green that you see is my wall, not fabric!

I will be waiting to see what you make from these fabrics-very pretty collection

Sheesh, that is a challenge. All I can think of is some kind of medallion using the smallest piece in the middle and building out by size of fabric scrap. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

How about a D9P?

Could you add a zinger color like hot pink, bright green, red, etc.? Then make some hst's, pinwheels or such to make a nice topper or runner.....

Very pretty fabrics!! I would throw some red in there.

Love the idea and am going to steal it. I belong to a bee that loves swaps and challenges! I am blank on ideas of what to make, but I do agree that a bright color (red, yellow, pink) would pop.

Red. Red. Red. Red. Or yellow.

Was considering going thru my Carol Doak book and look for a variety of pp blocks. Then adding a pop within each block. What do you think of that idea? I Have a piece of black bkgrd with sparkly gold butterflies that I may be able to fussy cut for my extra fabric.

Mckwilter, if you use this challenge I would suggest that you specify a color family or just batiks for your fabric pieces. I could see this being a jumbled up mess if each person brought anything. Glad we were instructed to only use bl/wh pieces.

What a challenge. sounds like I would be lost too. I wrote down the amount of the 7 different fabrics each person has at the end of the exchange and if I come up with something I'll let you know. I'll be watching this topic for sure

Google images for b/w quilts. Should get lots of inspiration. I like bright pink or lime green to contrast. Can't wait to see yours.

Always LOVE red with black & white print. Saw something recently that look neat using black & white prints. Will look.

GOOD LUCK !!! I first thought of red....but Ifstamper's idea of a bright pink might be good too.....I think i would stay with "hot" colors to go with the black and whites......as for pattern....????? Yikes....but something that spiraled out.....from the smaller piece you have as the center......moving outward to the larger pieces with the extra color in between. There are some log cabin variations that would go there...maybe try googling "log cabin variations". Again..GOOD LUCK !!!

I saw a lovely one recently with teal as the accent color with black and white.

Go to Google images or Bing images and search for One Yard quilt challenge. There were lots of ideas out there. Maybe one of them will inspire you.

How about a small bag or a mug rug? Maybe an applique wall hanging, a house, a piano, a mouse, or a cat applique. Or a bird.. birds sing and the musical fabric just brings songs and joyful noise to mind.

I love the idea of this challenge. I'll have to present it to a guild I belong to. I went to Yahoo and searched for 1 yard quilt challenge images. These 3 were pretty simple and could be adapted to scrappy. Maybe they will help get your creative juices going. All I found were images, so it will be up to you to figure out the pattern...shouldn't be that hard. It sure does help with the design if you know you can add another fabric for some extra color and accent to the originals. I know everyone will love to see what you come up with.

I love the idea of the hst's. There is no end of ways to put those together. Another color that would be fun is lime green - almost any bright color really

I would add a red fabric to make it pop!

I think heirloom quilters and others have done this last year. Somewhere I did see the end results bu.t can't find them at present.

HHHMMM what if everybody brought the ugliest piece of fabric they could find........
But I love this idea! Black and white and purple? I think it would be fun to audition different colors.
I can also see how this could be fun if everybody brought a shirt and cut parts off it.

have not a clue as to what to do with that many different sizes

Do people stay up at night thinking up these challenges?? WoW! This one is difficult. But, if I were doing this one, I'd use red as my accent color and make log cabin blocks. Put the red in the center and graduate light to dark values as I work my way out. Then, a thin musical border, a red border and larger musical border again.

Can't wait to see what you do with this. How long do you have to get your creation done? And, keep us posted.

The fabrics would make a beautiful purse/tote. You could use whatever bright color that you want to trim the pockets or/and add some fancy fabric flowers.

That's a good idea, Tartan.

This is a really interesting challenge. Will have to pass it on to my girlfriend for her guild.

WOW - the fabrics are beautiful, especially the larger musical fabric, unfortunately I don't have a pattern in mind.

I would dp a log cabin block as the center "medallion and then start adding color around it. I like the color of your wall with it. do something unexpected!

Hi Sandy,
Have you heard of a Zentangle Quilt? A friend sent me this link. I have not made one yet but have this on my bucket list. I think your black and white fabrics would look perfect in this project. Good Luck and happy Quilting.

http://zanyquilter.blogspot.com/p/ze...-tutorial.html

Love the idea and did go to the blog. I printed the instructions and plan on taking them to my quilt guild meeting next month. We have done ideas like this before for our quilt shows and also round robins and row robins. This really sounds fun.

OMGOSH, copycat, I love your suggestion. And I totally love Zentangle, too. I may have to give this a try. I love all or the ideas and if the Zentangle doesn't work out-I will probably go with the Log Cabin idea. Thank you so much-such a great crafty bunch of quilters!
Sandy

My quilt class had a black/white swap for a bowtie quilt called Black Tie Affair. You can find it here.
http://www.lynbrown.com/black-bow-ti...ir-swap-quilt/

I found this collection of photos for the one yard challenge.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...enge&FORM=IGRE

I'm in the camp of adding a color that pops. Red, turquoise, hot pink, lime green are some that come to mind. I like the Zentangle quilt -- I did something like that in class a few years back just doodling in large pieces.

What about a large log cabin block, you could use it as a table topper or wall quilt.

I love this thank you for sharing.