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Hello, I did not split the needle this time (in case the name confused you). Anyways I finished my sewing group project, and would like to share with you my project from start to finish and our group story. So before you get confused about what my quilt is, it is a sailboat/raft, the blue triangles represent the ocean, the red triangle represents blood as our main character is shot by enemies (explained later on), and the orange triangle is the sail.

 

In the picture below you can see my quilt, and, if you look closely you can see I am sewing one of the blue triangles. I outlined the blue with some lighter blue to compliment it and give it a pure, sleek look.

 

 

Secondly, I sewed a shiny red onto the red triangle to accent the red and make it stand out more, as if it were shining.

 

After that I worked on the orange sail, and over the outline I sewed some light orange to make it “appear” more and look more vibrant.

 

 

 

And, finally, I took the wooden, rectangular part of the boat and once again outlined it. This time I took some dark brown thread and carefully stitched it through to make it look simple and minimalistic.

 

 

After all that sewing, I finished, so here are the pictures of the quilt front and back.

 

 

As you can see below, all the stitching was fairly close together, that was a challenge as I almost overlapped other thread at times.

 

 

And the final product, in my opinion, turned out pretty well!

 

Here’s a whole bunch of links from my group for the other parts of the story.

Part 1: Calum’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/calumo/

One day there was a young man named Juno, he didn’t have very many friends or family, although, everybody knew him. His mother had died when he was young, and his father abandoned him, so he was very lonely. Every morning he would get up and do the same thing over and over again, but this day was different, because as he was sipping his morning cup of coffee he heard cries for help just outside his house. He courageously ran out and saw people running and heard and saw gun fire.

Part 2: Mimi’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/mimiz/

He grabbed as many people as he could and ran to the nearby forest they ran for miles until everybody was out of breath by now it was getting dark and everybody was getting very tired so they decided to go to sleep. The next day everybody decided that they would go around the coast instead of back through the village, everybody thought that was the safest way. They walked for days on end and many people were very wounded, so they slowly died as they were walking. Finally they got to the village after surviving off of berries and water from the streams, everybody was famished so they ran to the nearest shop but something was wrong, nobody was out on the streets.

Part 3: My Part for my Quilt Square (explained).

They then decided to take a boat off to another island (which was their original plan) as they were leaving the dock they heard cries for help. Juno jumped out of the boat and pointed the lady to the direction of the boat and just as she got in there was a person with a gun shooting at the boat, so they quickly steered away, nobody was hurt until they realized Juno was bleeding.

Part 4: Aiden’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/aidens/

After boating for a few days Juno begun to slowly become weaker from the infected wound and eventually died.

Part 5: Angela’s Part: http://www.blog44.ca/angelac/

The rest of the people kept on boating until they reached an island with lots of fish and other food they decided to stay at the island, after a few years a civilization was created and it has named after Juno in honour of his bravery.

That concludes my humongous blog post! See you in the next post!