A beautiful ugly!

This beauty was part of the show and tell at our guild meeting yesterday:

 (click to enlarge for a full blast of its beauty.)

You may remember this challenge from last winter where Ann F. asked us to take our ugly fabrics and needleturn applique a flower onto a yellow or orange block. Now the quilt is machine sashed and bordered and quilted to a 80s vintage quilted bedspread Ann found and its strangely lovely.

If nothing else, it's certainly a lively quilt. That's my blue and red and pink flower in the 2nd row, 2nd from the right.

Meanwhile, here's our next guild challenge of black and white and turquoise. We're each making six blocks by January. Here's what we have so far. My six are the top row, Cheryl's in the 2nd, Laura's in the 3rd, and Kathy and Heather and Karen made the rest. There's a lovely variety of block patterns and fabrics in it. Click the photo to enlarge.

Meanwhile, I signed up for the monthly bee at 15 minutes of play, and here's my November blocks in red.