Final layout was decided as it was being assembled based on active feedback of guild members. More than 32 members contributed to the piecing of the quilt. We decided on the idea of the quilt as a committee and brain stormed early layout ideas. Our goal each year is for our Quiltcon Charity Challenge submission to be a collaborative project within our guild. We know that diversity makes us stronger and wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge the people that make San Diego such a wonderful place to live. We have a strong cross-border relationship with Mexico and our city is known as a welcoming new home to residents who join us through the refugee and asylee process each year. The San Diego Modern Quilt Guild wanted our quilt to reflect our dynamic San Diego community as well as highlight our vital role as a border city. San Diego is a culturally diverse community. Blocks were created with various types of applique, pieced letters, embroidery, and even raised felt dots to create Braille letters. Members who sewed blocks for the languages were given fabric kits and instructed to create their block in any style that worked best for that particular language, as one method was not best suited for all languages. We researched the languages spoken here and came up with a list that members could choose from, as well as providing an option to help paper piece letters, patterned by Colleen Molen, to spell out “Welcome” and “Bienvenidos”. With member input, we decided on using the word “Welcome”, and it’s similar phrasing, in languages spoken in San Diego County. We wrote more about this quilt and the process behind it on a blog post last year – check it out for more details about the quilt. 2021 Community Outreach Quilt – “Twists and Turns” Though we’re not physically together to create, we’re many voices still able to make connection with a shared purpose. We did not know what these blocks would look like or how they would work together with such a broad prompt, but they came together to create flow and movement throughout the quilt. They were not given any direction beyond “include at least one curved element.” In this unpredictable year of together apart, our members were challenged to create blocks of the same size using curved piecing and to use any technique that they would like to achieve the curved element in their block. We’re looking forward to revealing more about this year’s quilt, once the show opens, but take a look at the quilts we’ve created for prior challenges. For some of the older quilts, we don’t have as much information, but have tried to share as much as we could to tell about these quilts. We’ve participated every year that the challenge/QuiltCon has happened and there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make these quilts happen. As we get ready for QuiltCon next week, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the previous Community Outreach/Charity Challenge quilts that the guild has created over the years.
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