Food Quilts

I’d like to start this post by thanking everyone for their kind words and prayers about last week’s post. Mom and Dad are still doing quite well, and I’m grateful for the encouragement from everyone. I loved reading the comments! Thanks so much!

And now for today’s post ~

We live on a lovely road that feels very rural, but it’s right along the edge of town. As I was driving a few mornings ago I noticed a produce stand. I didn’t have time to stop, but it got me thinking about food quilts.

I’ve seen some fun ones over the years, and the one that came to mind first was made by my friend Lori. She made it for a baking themed challenge at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show. Her quilt didn’t contain any foods, but it is delightfully food related. And it was a winner in the challenge! She calls it Tools of the Trade.

I think it’s very clever. This got me to pondering whether or not I’d ever made a food quilt. After a bit of noodling I remembered I had! It was a quilt I made for an “Anything Goes” challenge I participated in with the Milwaukee Art Quilters way back in 2010. Here’s the quilt:

Yup ~ that’s the shape of it. It has the most unique outer edge of any quilt I’ve ever made. It started as three hexagon blocks made in a workshop years ago. The teacher realized 2 hours into class that her pattern was drafted incorrectly and the blocks didn’t fit together. So she packed up and went home, and we were all left with the blocks. I decided they were the perfect fodder for the challenge and I put them in a paper bag to pass along to another guild member. That’s when the fun began. This is one of those blocks.

Isn’t it hard to believe those blocks turned into an ice cream sundae? But anything can happen in an Anything Goes challenge! To read the whole story please click here!
I then realized that my most recent quilt contained fruit ~ the Fruits of the Spirit!

On the topic of fruit ~ I was reminded of a quilt I made using my collection of cherry fabrics (Kirsch is German for cherries). It wasn’t made as a food quilt, but there sure are a lot of cherries in it.

So I have made a few food quilts. Then, while doing a bit of web surfing about food quilts, I was reminded that the National Quilt Museum’s current challenge is entitled:

How fitting. Perhaps we should all start making food quilts to enter in that contest! Click here for the details.

Have you made a food quilt? If you have I’m challenging you to send me a photo of it. I can’t wait to see what you send. I think this could lead to a fun sequel post. Please send images to .

PS The canning jar shelf quilt pictured at the top of this image was made by Elaine. I found her blog while doing an online search, and thought her quilt was delightful. Click here to visit her site!

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And one more thing! I’m very excited to share that the ThreadBenders Achromatic challenge won second place in the AQS Grand Rapids Ultimate Guild Challenge competition this past week!!! To see all of the Grand Rapid’s winners click here (you’ll have to scroll a ways to get to the Guild Challenge quilts 😊). I’m so grateful to be a part of this talented group!