The Traveling Quilts Bee - Round 3
April 24th, 2012
Round 3 of the Traveling Quilts Bee has made it’s way to my house. I now have Elizabeth’s quilt-in-progress (here).
The beauty of this round robin bee is that the rules are really liberal - some participants are building to the quilt-in-progress (QIP) rounds, and some participants are making building materials. I’m too chicken to use someone’s building materials (ie, Heather’s beautiful blocks) for fear I’ll muck them up, so I’m sticking to being a builder.
The instant I saw Elizabeth’s QIP, I KNEW that I wanted to have some fun in 8-bit and do something iconic 80’s like Pac-man. I found some awefreakingsome paper piecing Pac-man patterns by Jennifer Ofenstein posted here. It’s bananas how Jennifer has so many killer patterns. How do people do this?? My mind boggles.
I printed the patterns at a smaller scale so I could border them into 5″ finished blocks. I don’t know what I did, all I know is I got printer-lucky.
I grey’d-out Pac-man’s traveled path as he makes his way towards Clyde.
As Pac-man heads toward Pinky and Inky (ish), I decided to do the “dots” in tall segments vs alternating squares of black and white with long white boarders. In my head I heard Pac-man chomping his way over the dots - and I feel like the segments enhance the visual chomping sounds, and the long white boarders would have felt like Pac-man would have been gliding over the dots. Pac-man is not a glider. Not that there’s anything wrong with gliding.
All done, and now Round 3 is off to Dan’s for Round 4.
As I mentioned in my previous post, the secrecy ban has been lifted in the TQ pool (yay!!!), and now we can all watch the QIP’s as they grow. For example I got to see Dan’s addition to my QIP, and just recently got to see Elizabeth’s addition to Amber’s QIP. Yeah, incredibly, amazing stuff to see. An abundance of awesomeness!
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Farting around with needle & thread and then blogging about it.
Love your addition to E’s blocks! So glad you all lifted the ban. Can’t wait to see more.
April 24th, 2012oh holy balls monica! amazing! love this! you outdid yourself! xoxo
April 24th, 2012How fun is that? I loved PAC-MAN. The colors are sew crisp & bright. I need to learn paper piecing. Great job. Thanks, Mary
April 24th, 2012I love your Pac-Man quilt - so fun and colorful. Great job!
April 24th, 2012Freakin’ awesome!
April 24th, 2012oh, nostalgia! Pac-man was my first video game ever played, at a pizza hut, with a very cute boy on our first date.
April 24th, 2012VERY clever addition to the most excellent 80s quilt!
That’s fantastic! I can hear the music in my head right now!
April 24th, 2012Amazingly creative. I’m completely blow away…
April 24th, 2012oh so very clever Ms. Zombie!
April 24th, 2012Very fun! Thanks for sharing everyone’s progress.
April 24th, 2012HOW @#$%* CUTE IS THAT !!!!! BRILLIANT !!!!
April 24th, 2012gah! totally rad, dude!
April 24th, 2012Eek - the pacman blocks look awesome! Seriously, I just love them, you have mad paper pieceing skills.
April 24th, 2012What a cool quilt. Awesome bright colours. It is so 80’s made me flash back with happiness.
April 24th, 2012Your imagination blows me away! How great to add Pac-Man to those fabulous bright fabrics! Great job Monica!
April 25th, 2012Oh LOVE! So darn creative!!
April 25th, 2012You are amazing. That is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Love it. I used to rock Packman.
April 25th, 2012Love the Pac-Man! I had to PIN this so I never lose it!
April 26th, 2012Just stopping by from Flickr. I’d love to know the pattern for the piece on the top left, the squares with black lines. I’ve been traipsing about links, but can’t find the source. Can you direct me to the it? Thanks. Love what you all are doing!
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April 26th, 2012Thank you! The info is in the first paragraph of this post.
that is awesome! love the pac man blocks!
April 27th, 2012Super duper cool!!!
April 27th, 2012I grew up when PacMan was the thing… now I’ve got the Pac Man Fever song stuck in my head! It’s looking great - what a great quilt idea! :P
April 28th, 2012How very cool! Quilting is still a bit of a mystery to me, so to see how you folded the fabric around Pac and his ghosts is just awesome.
April 29th, 2012I should’ve know you were a geek too :P haha I really need to come down and visit I can’t imagine it would be anything other then totally AWESOME!
April 30th, 2012Oh, sweet! The blocks are awesome! That is going to be the best. quilt, ever.
May 1st, 2012The color … and the pattern … is beyond brilliant.
Seriously ~
May 2nd, 2012Mary
I love your fun, fun addition to the quilt!! what a totally perfect compliment to what was there :-)
May 3rd, 2012I haven’t visited your blog for awhile, so I just saw your post about your Winterfest fabric line coming out: Just wanted to tell you that I never buy Christmas fabric unless it’s on sale, but i will be buying yours as soon as it comes out!! The colors are so refreshingly non-Christmas and the images are so fun that I could make something out of it and be able to keep it out durring other times of the year! Great Job!! :-)
That looks amazing! Yet another reason to learn how to do paper piecing.
May 3rd, 2012OH
May 4th, 2012That is so awesome!!! I can’t wait to see it (and all the others!) when they’re finished.
May 8th, 2012My mouth just dropped right open when I seen the pac-man quilt. I loved it as a kid. I have my sheets and everything. I wasn’t sure what to do them before. But now I have a good idea of what can be done. Absolutly loving it!
May 15th, 2012