The “Autumn” OSP Summer Challenge Colorwheel
O’Sewpersonal Fabric Shop is a business with two shops…one in O’Fallon, Missouri, in the other in Collinsville, IL. Kelly, the owner, saw some amazing challenge quilts out in Utah when she was at a workshops given by the long-arm manufacturer, Handi-Quilter. She decided it would be fun to set a challenge for her customers.
The shop is well known for the “Color Wheels”, sets of 8 fabric fat quarters. They offer at least one Color Wheel in their Comment Sold Facebook Sale every Monday night. Sometimes they are 8 fabrics from a fabric line, sometimes they are an assortment of 8 fabrics all the same color. For this challenge, the shop decided to make several sets of color wheels from 2 different fabric lines.
I wasn’t going to do this as I had the Blue and Yellow Summer Challenge for my guild but since I finished that one up in June, I jumped on the OSP bandwagon and purchased one of the few remaining Color Wheels, “Autumn”. These fabrics are from the “Beyond Bella” line designed by Annie Brady for Moda Fabrics.
Here are the contest rules:
You must use each of the colors in the color wheel. Just a tiny piece will satisfy this requirement
It has to be completely done and submitted in person or via photo by September 2, 2022.
It can be a quilt, a bag, or any other project that uses the fabric. Any pattern, or no pattern, is fine.
You may add any other fabrics that you want to, as long as the 8 Color Wheel Fabrics are used.
I think that’s the list!
I decided to design a block…it’s a cross block and I added the little squares in each corner. And I’m using the “Road to Oklahoma” from the Electric Quilt 8 Block Library as the alternate block.
I also designed the quilt in EQ8. One of the great things about this computer quilt program is that you can upload a fabric line from the manufacturer’s website and use it to color the blocks in the quilt you are designing. So you can see the quilt as it will actually be, not just in similar, substitute colors. It’s a extra step, but sometimes it’s so worth the extra effort. And it certainly was worth it this time. Because I only had the 8 fat quarters, I needed to know that my design didn’t need more fabric than I had. And EQ8 can do that!
The only fabric I will need to add is the pale yellow background in the Road to Oklahoma block.
NOTE: Since Kelly posted this Color Wheel Challenge, her shop in O’Fallon, MO was flooded by the historic July rains across the plains and Southeast US. She was on vacation in Alaska at the time, without any cell phone connectivity, so didn’t know what was happening back home. The shop did have water damage but she’s grateful it was just ground water and not also from the roof. Her employees all rose to the challenge. She reports that they did an amazing job, mopping out water daily and getting as much of the inventory safely up, high and dry, as they could. It’s a good thing that a lot of fabric is shelved at off the ground, but still, they couldn’t rescue all the fabric.
If you want to support the shop, O’Sewpersonal sells online on Facebook every Monday evening starting at 8:00 PM Central time. It’s always a really fun show. They also do a bit of online sales through their website, osewpersonal.com. The fabric online is all sale fabrics. You really need to do the Facebook Comment Sold sales on Monday to purchase what’s new and exciting!