My 100 Day Project

 100 Day projects are common in QuiltWorld.  The last time I participated was led by the Canadian Quilters Association.  Daily a 6-inch quilt block would be posted, and daily I would make it.  Here’s what I did in those 100 days.  And I bartered this quilt away to a tradesman whose wife loves black and white, 

This 100 day project, spearheaded by the soon-to-be president of my Chicago Modern quilt Guild Lauren, allows participants to define the shape of individual projects.  Two of my quilt sisters are doingg amazing things.  Jenni every day is appliquéing a different symbol of resistance, so necessary because of the awful ICE raids in Chicago and suburbs.  Diane every day is appliquéing a different alphabetic symbol in a variety of languages.  Steff is approaching her project like mine - setting goals for various projects that will be completed by October 1, 2025 + 100 days.  You do the math - early January 2026.  

Despite doing so many scrap projects,  my scraps still have scraps.  I have so many black, white, grey fabrics.  So my project will be to use up these fabulous scraps. But I’m not working a day at a time - I’m working in chunks of time.  Here’s what I have so far - and this is like day 35.

There are 4 blocks above, each 24” x 24” made up of one big nine path surrounds by 12 6” nine patches.  I have 5 more 12 x 12 blocks and need to make 60  6” nine patches. And so far I have 20 complete.  The finished quilt will be 75” x 75”.  But I am putting this away for a bit and using my design wall to get back to the David Own Hastings workshop I took last month.  Let the play day begin!