Author Archives: sarah

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I like to participate in quilt challenges, and I've made projects for three of the previous Pantone Quilt Challenges over the years (Greenery, Ultra Violet, and Viva Magenta). I've just realized that I have always submitted to the "Just the Top" category, so this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I'm submitting my Mocha Mousse quilt top this year.

In choosing a palette, I considered many options for how I might be able to add other colors to the palette while still featuring Mocha Mousse. In the end I decided to stick with a monochromatic palette, edited down slightly from a bundle I purchased from Sewfinity.

Inspired by my Red Improv Log Cabin quilt, I started with a sawtooth star in the center. My plan is to echo the star with quilting lines, and to fill each section with interesting motifs, similar to the quilting on my inspiration quilt. Though, with the mocha solids, the quilting will have more of an opportunity to really be the star.

  • Mocha Mousse Log Cabin
  • 36.5" x 36.5"
  • Sarah Goer, USA

I started by making my 12" (finished) Sawtooth Star for the center, then I worked intuitively choosing each fabric as I went for my log cabin design.

It's so interesting to me how colors shift depending on the lighting. This one was taken indoors with an overhead light that is white in color. The outdoor photo above was taken on a sunny day, with the quilt in full shade.

I'm linking up to the Pantone Quilt Challenge. Thank you so much to Sarah Ruiz and Elizabeth Ray for hosting, to the judges, and to all the sponsors. And congratulations to everyone who found inspiration with this year's Pantone Color of the Year and submitted something. I really enjoy the variety of the projects submitted.

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This week's Project QUILTING challenge is Follow Your Arrow. Our one requirement was to include an arrow shape. "Chevrons can be a very modern, streamlined arrow shape. You can find lots of patterns for arrowhead-and-feathered-shaft Robin Hood style arrows."

Immediately I looked for arrow prints and landed on this black and white Alison Glass print. I love a palette of black white and one color. I chose pink and decided to use 8 different pink solids. (These included Kona Azalea, Bright Pink, Pomegranate, Punch, and Watermelon. The others were unlabeled.)

I went with a simple checkerboard layout of 6 1/2" squares for my 24" x 24" NICU quilt. As of Saturday evening I hadn't sewn a stitch. I got up at 5:45am (the new time after time change) to finish up my quilt Sunday morning. Some speed choices in the interest of finishing before the deadline included: single piece of fabric for the backing, no basting quilt sandwich before quilting, minimal quilting, quilting in just one color thread: Aurifil 50wt Fuchsia (#4020) (if I had more time and more thread options I would have used a variety of pinks), chose remnant binding from my binding box, attached the binding with the same thread I quilted with, machine bound (as I usually do).

Tada!

I chose a lovely pink Alison Glass print for the back.

I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Follow Your Arrow challenge. One more challenge for the season, starting March 16!

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This week's Project QUILTING challenge is Birthstone. We were required to use the color of our birthstone. The stone for October is tourmaline. A quick internet search indicated that tourmaline can come in a variety of colors, not just the light pink we usually see in birthstone charts. I was particularly drawn to the watermelon tourmaline, which includes pink. With a Creating a Scrappy Slab lecture/demo last week for Silicon Valley MQG and another coming up tomorrow night for The Northwest Arkansas MQG I had scrappy slab on the mind.

I pulled out my pink, green and black and white scrap bins and set to pull out scraps in light and medium pink and light and dark green to start building some scrappy slab tourmaline.

I worked organically and eventually decided to build two quadrants of the stone and to raw edge appliqué it to a scrappy slab quilted background in white on black. My quilt finished at 6" x 8"

I am donating this piece to the SAQA Spotlight Auction 2025. The fundraiser auction coincides with the 2025 SAQA Conference, but you do not to be attending the SAQA conference or a member of SAQA. Bidding will be open to everyone via the Handbid platform March 26 to April 5. Today was the last day for SAQA members to complete the online submission form for donating artwork to the auction. Glad I got mine done just in time!

The SAQA Spotlight Auction mats each art quilt, so the viewable portion of the quilt is 4 1/2" x 6 1/2".

I'm linking up on Kim's blog for the Project QUILTING Birthstone challenge.

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