A quilt interlude: The Power of Two.....

(I'm double posting today....my nature post Bugs, Bugs, Bugs..... follows)

Our quilt guild challenge this year was called "The Power of Two".

The rules were to get a quilting buddy and created 1 or 2 quilted projects that go together with the theme of "Two". You could only use 2 colors and were to work together on at least part of it. Last night was our "reveal" at the guild meeting. I think you can guess which project I was part of :-)

My quilting buddy.....Mary A......and I joined the guild the same night and have been known as the "Mary's" ever since. So we used the familiar nursery rhyme that every Mary hears her whole life as our theme....."Mary, Mary......how does your garden grow?" We worked both together and apart on similar vests. The top picture shows the front of hers and the back of mine. Now we can wear them when we go to quilt shows together!
This picture is the front of mine and the back of hers. It was a lot of fun and the idea was to foster friendship, as well as create something.

Here are some more pairings.....table runner and table topper by two very talented appliquers.



Tea for Two! These ladies were very creative and even added a label on the back with tea bag tags hanging from it! Really pretty!

These two created a "sock" quilt to be raffled off at their church.....great idea!

They took the "power of two" literally and multiplied!

Mother and daughter worked together on wall hangings for their den that represent God coming down to the parents (the mother's quilt) and the two daughters in the other quilt! They are new quilters and learned a lot working together, and ended up with a great project!

These two ladies created matching tops with the colors reversed! Both ways look beautiful!

Two friends worked together on a raffle quilt for their church....beautiful!

They said they really enjoyed working together and talking mostly :-)

These two are old friends and did very different projects (everyone interpreted the challenge differently, we found out)

Earlene added some blocks to Lois's quilt.....

......and Lois gave a "helping hand" to Earlene with her Bowtie quilt :-)

These two attempted to learn some new things together and learned that patience is very necessary in paper-piecing .......

.......their not quite finished projects

These ladies traded this baby quilt back and forth working on it and it will be donated to our Angel Quilts service projects. Wonderful!

Everyone had fun and some new friendships were created as well as beautiful projects. Some were old friends, but many of these ladies had never worked together before.