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How to Make a Tea Party Challenege Quilt from Start to Finish

How to Make a Tea Party Challenege Quilt from Start to Finish. The Generations Challenge for the Wichita Mountains Quilt Guild. The challenge was to take the word "Generations", find another word in it, and make a quilt inspired by that found word. The quilt couldn't be larger than 120" in perimeter (30" x 30") and needed to be three layers. Any technique can be used. I found the word "tea" in the word "generations". I decided that I wanted to make a tea party quilt. I have a purple floral teapot in my china collection that I receive from my grandma. It also has guilded edges. Then, I found fat quarter pack of fabric that I liked inspired by the teapot. I also picked up a fat quater pack of pink and purple fabric. The pink and purple fabric had a tweed/ linen print. Since my tea party was purple, I decided to make a pink "tablecloth" for my tea party. A quick search of the internet, I decided to make a gingham tablecloth quilt top to applique onto. I quickly designed a pattern in Canva. I cut out the 5 inch squares of 3 pink colors (dark, medium, and light), assembled, and quilted with staight line a quarter of an inch on either side of the seams. Next, I fussy cut out the teapot and teacups using my AccuQuilt Go! I orginally cut the saucers to match the teacups as you would see in actual china, but there was not enough contrast so I recut the saucers in a complementary fabric from the fat quarter pack. I cut the cupcake liners out of the dark purple and tops out of light purple. Before I attached the applique, I decided to try out metallic gold embroidery thread on the teacups, saucers, and teapot to give it a guilded edge like my actual teapot. Since my fabric already had so much gold in it, the thread was lost and I didn't move forward with the idea. Just attaching the applique would give me the look I was going for. However, the cupcakes looked a little flat so I tested out some free motion quilting on the liners and a different pattern on the cupcake tops. After the FMQing was completed, I started attaching the applique. I set up my machine for sewing with metallic thread (lower tension and the thread in a cup instead of on the thread spoolnon the machine). I also set the blanket stitch with a maximum length. Starthing with the metallic gold thread, I sewed down the teapot, lid, cups, and saucers. This gave them the guilded edge look I was wanting. On the cupcake liners I used a purple metallic thread, and on thr cupcake top I used a pale pink. Then, I made the label for the quilt on my embroidery machine and made the hanging sleeve using the fabric I trimmed from the quilt top. It has a lot of seams, but I didnt waste any fabric. Finally it was time to bind the quilt. I didn't feel like making my own binding since I didn't have an ideal amount of any one fabric leftover from the quilt top. I had some bias tape in stock in pink, black, white, and gold. I decided to use the gold, because when else was I going to use it? Plus, it is fun. The fabric for the binding felt awful! I woukd never use for a quilt you would use like a blanket. It was also ver slippery. Despite being difficult to work with, it was one of the best binding jobs I have ever done. Got it done just in time! At the guild Christmas party, I turned in my quilt and I came in the top three when the guild voted for their favorites. My prize was a pink ruler. #quilting #teaparty #challengequilt #appliquequilt #gingham