2024 monthly color challenge – October
Welcome to the 2024 Monthly Color Challenge. This event is hosted by Patterns by Jen.
What is the challenge
The 2024 Monthly Color Challenge is the 7th year of running. This year the inspiration is Tropical Fish.
Each month there is a new colour and a new block. You can see all the colours to come this year at this post on Jen’s blog. The challenge is to make the block in the colour for that month, then at the end you have enough blocks to make a quilt, there is a quilt layout provided during the year, or you can do your own.
Jen also shares all the info on what you need and you can choose to sign up to receive the block sent straight to your inbox. The blocks are free for the month then they will have a small cost. Sign up to her newsletter to receive the blocks free.
October Block
Fabric choices + backgrounds
My background is a sand coloured solid that I had in my shop, I have used most of it for this project, there wasn’t a lot left on the bolt. The idea of tropical fish gave me the idea of using this fabric and it representing the sand on the ocean floor.
The colour of the month is provided by leftover fabric from the Maple and Eucalyptus quilt I made in 2023. Pattern by Angie and Karen. They are Andover solids and are gorgeous and bright.
- Find the Maple and Eucalyptus pattern here
October feature colour was supposed to black, but I had this gorgeous darker blue so I decided to use that. In the end quilt this will be lovely and still reads as a dark colour.
Quilting thoughts
I have found a collection of fish quilting patterns in my computerised machine and am planning to use these to quilt each of the blocks. Then I will need to add something to the areas between the fish, that is yet to be determined.
Previously I have used a themed pantograph on the quilts I have made using the Colour Challenge from Patterns by Jen.
What do you think? A fish in each block or a themed pantograph over the whole quilt? Let me know in the comments
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Happy Sewing, and if you want to make the blocks head to Jen’s blog for the link to purchase the earlier months.
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