Spring Challenge that keeps on growing!

Hi all! I wanted to share how I started my Spring Challenge and where it's headed after a fantastic sewing day on Wednesday.

I attended a Liberated Medallion Quilt workshop with Gwen Marston this past week and couldn't decide what to bring as my center medallion. Then I remembered the Spring Challenge--perfect!

Here's my piece in progress--under the photo I'll share the novel and other photos as to how I got here.

With a tight timeframe (I began piecing the night before the workshop!), I played around a bit in Illustrator first to figure out what I wanted to do. While I like the star concept, the third design spoke to me so quickly that I didn't even bother to spend time coloring it in.

I had these larger cuts of fabrics pulled from a recent shopping trip to take to the workshop:

So I pulled scraps in those colors and got to work on my made fabric: teal, green, red, and gold. Because I'd added in a few lines to Victoria's original shape, I decided to paper piece the blocks instead--so much easier! (And...I often skimp on fabric when paper piecing--the beauty of paper piecing made fabric is that if your fabric ends up short, you can just add to it--woo hoo!)

I made four blocks to join with sashing:

Here's my original Spring Challenge piece, before it grew too much:

Watch it grow:

Liberated borders:

I loved this workshop and can't wait to continue playing with this piece as it grows--definitely have plans to work in some more made fabric as I add borders. 

Keep thinking spring and eventually it will get warm, right?!?!