Sneeze Challenge

The Oxford Quilt Guild issued a challenge at the September meeting...we were each to chose a Kleenex box and made a quilted item using either the colour scheme or the pictures on the box as our inspiration.  They called it the "Sneeze Challenge".  Today, all of the projects were revealed and we had to match the boxes with their respective projects.  There were 30 challenge projects completed and it was fun to figure out the inspiration for each quilt. 

The flattened Kleenex boxes were on display above the quilts, but not necessarily near the quilt that they matched.  

My project was a pillow cover, shown above as item "N".  My Kleenex box was number 18.  The organizers had to take the pillow form out as they could not hang it up on display with the form inside. 

I used 6 different shades of turquoise with a grey print background and quilted it with a 28 weight thread so that the quilting would be more prominent against the gray background.  This was my first time using the heavier weight thread for quilting--no issues at all.  There was a 50 weight matching thread in the bobbin.  

Here is my finished pillow.  At today's meeting, the program committee announced that there will be another challenge starting in January.  Bring it on!!!