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2020 Monthly Color Challenge Quilt

I have my 2020 Monthly Color Challenge quilt top to show you today. This is my second year participating in the Monthly Color Challenge hosted by Patterns by Jen. This year, Jen used birds as her inspiration for each monthly block, and what a pretty variety of blocks there were! 

One of my favorite bird-related movies is The Big Year. If you’ve seen it, you might recall the scenes where the birders get a notice that a specific bird has been seen at a certain location, and everyone scrambles to get to there for prime viewing. When Jen notified those of us that the finished quilt link up was today, I was just like one of those birders in the movie. I hadn’t even thought about the layout of my blocks, so I was scrambling to get it finished. There were no feathers flying, but the thread and needle definitely were! 

Jen has a fantastic layout design to finish the blocks. You can see that layout here if you are like me and haven’t started piecing your top yet. I love the pixelated design and how the colors dance around the blocks. This was the layout I was planning to do, but I didn’t get the fabric ordered, so I had to take another flight path; something simpler and faster. 

2020 Monthly Color Challenge Quilt - My finished quilt top for the 2020 Monthly Color Challenge hosted by Patterns by Jen - piecefulthoughts.com

My quilt top finished at 48″ x 64″ and the blocks are laid out in the order they were made, beginning with January’s block in the upper left corner. I used a black P&B Textiles fabric called Suede that I had in my stash for the sashing and border of the blocks and quilt. The sashing strips were cut at 2.5 inches. the border pieces are 4.5 inches wide. I decided to make the blocks “hop” a little, just like the birds out my window hopping from one branch to another. 

2021 Monthly Color Challenge

Jen is hosting another year of the Monthly Color Challenge, this year offering two sizes of blocks. The inspiration for this year’s challenge is fruits and veggies. You can find all the information for the challenge right here. It would be great fun to have you sew along with me! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my 2020 Monthly Color Challenge quilt. Jen is hosting a 2020 Monthly Color Challenge Quilt Show over at Patterns by Jen. I hope you stop over and see the other 2020 Monthly Color Challenge quilts.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy stitching!

Wendy

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