Stephenie Meyer Quilt: Quilt Show Update

I am pleased to announce that the Stephenie Meyer Quilt has been judged as Best Group Quilt in the 36th Annual Quilt show at the Springville Museum of Art!

I attended and accepted the ribbon for the Best Group Quilt at tonight's special award presentation and preview show. 19 of the 20 awards were presented tonight (The Viewer's Choice award will be awarded at the close of the show, see details below). After the ribbons were presented to the winners, each of us got the privilege of hanging the ribbon next to our quilts! In addition to the beautiful blue ribbon, we were awarded a $100 cash prize. The nine of us involved in making this quilt have decided to donate the money to charity.

The awards presented tonight were:
Best of Show, Director's Award, Best Hand Quilting, Artistic Impression (2), Best Hand Applique, Artistic Design, Best Machine Quilting, Visual Impact, Machine Quilting & Embellishment, Flawless Workmanship (2), Creativity & Combined Techniques, Best Use of Color, Best Machine Piecing (you should see this one), Fabric Selection, Machine Piecing, Best Group Quilt (that's us!) and Fine Applique.

Here is a shot of the quilt and ribbon, as displayed at the museum.



The Stephenie Meyer Quilt will be on display from July 17th through September 2nd. During the run of the show, those in attendance will have a chance to vote for their favorite quilt of the 91 quilts on display and the Viewer's Choice award will be given at the close of the show.

Elizabeth

Stephenie Meyer Quilt: A Work of Art

The Twilight Quilt is completely finished! Vivian delivered it to me on Tuesday (it was so nice to meet her) and I feverishly worked to get it bound, labeled and a sleeve on it so that, as Shannon said, we could treat it like a work of art. As chance would have it, the 36th Annual Quilt Show at the Springville Museum of Art in Utah was accepting quilts this week. The nine of us who worked on the quilt took a vote and as a group we decided to enter it in the show. This is a juried display at the museum. Quality in workmanship, design, color, originality, and general appeal will be the principle criteria applied by the judges. There will be awards for “Best of Show”, “Director’s Award”, “Best Hand Quilting,” as well as seventeen other awards. We obviously don't qualify for the "Best Hand Quilting" award, but is it too much to hope for "Director's Award," or "Best of Show?" (I hope the Director is a fan of the series!) The Quilt Show runs from July 17th to September 2nd and the Awards Presentation and Show Preview will be on Wednesday, July 15th from 5:00 to 6:00 pm MST. My family and I are planning on attending and I will post the results (which I hope will be good!) as soon as I can on Wednesday night.

This quilt has truly been a labor of love for all of us. Each block is an amazing work of art and Vivian's quilting, as you saw in the preview last week, added greatly to the beauty of it. She used matching thread (white on white, black on black, red on red, etc.). She highlighted and accentuated all of the beautiful blocks, quilting design around the main parts of each block, and mostly just tacked the blocks down in the detailed areas so as not to distract from the beautiful work.

Here are some close-up shots of the individual blocks (place cursor in the right hand corner to bring up play options to pause, stop, etc. the slideshow:

Stephenie Meyer Quilt: Where is it Now?

I'm guessing some of the quilt's fans are wondering where the quilt is this week?


Elizabeth (L) and Vivian (R), 7/8/09

(For the non-quilters: don't worry about that white batting border because it will be trimmed flush with the quilt top and then a fabric binding attached.)

I'm happy to report that it has made it's way to Utah and is with Elizabeth. Elizabeth is frantically getting it bound, labeled, and a hanging sleeve attached. The quilt is truly a work of art so we're going to treat it as such.

That's my tease for the day!

Stephenie Meyer Quilt: Piece, LOVE, Twilight

We've just received word from Vivian that she is feverishly working on the Twilight Quilt and is still on schedule to deliver to Elizabeth!

Ladies,

I've been working round the clock to be able to get the Twilight SM quilt done. I have been very busy with family events...namely lots of company at my house and getting my son ready for his 2 yr mission to New Zealand. But it's just about finished and I WILL be taking it to Utah next week with me to deliver it to Elizabeth!!! I will be posting pictures and a story when I get back. I've been taking pictures throughout the entire, wonderful process. You ladies absolutely amaze me. The attention to detail, fabric selection, tiny detailed stitches, embellishments, etc. I can tell so much love and thoughtfulness has gone into every single block. It has been such an honor to work on such a wonderful work of art. Now back to quilting...take care, Twilight Moms!

Vivian

Her message above was posted on our A Quilt for Stephenie Meyer thread at Twilight Moms.

This is amazing news!

The quilt is definitely true to it's name: Piece, LOVE, Twilight.

FAQ's

In order to provide you with the best experience possible here at the Twilight Quilters Coven, we thought it might be wise to add Frequently Asked Questions. This post will be updated as necessary to keep the information as current as possible.

1. Can you give me Stephenie Meyer's address? Unfortunately, we don't have her address, so we can't give it to you. We are not affiliated in any way with with Stephenie Meyer or the Little, Brown and Company.
2. How do I join the Twilight Quilters Coven? If you're interested in joining our group, head on over to TwilightMOMS and register there. Then you can join us on our chat thread. We are planning some fun quilts for charity projects soon.
3. Can I buy a Twilight Quilt? Unfortunately, no, we are not selling quilts. There are copyright issues surrounding many of the blocks. We are just a group of friends who love to quilt.
4. Where can I get Twilight Quilt patterns? Check out our pattern page!

A Trip Around the Stephenie Meyer Quilt

For your viewing pleasure here are close-ups of each individual block:

Stephenie Meyer Quilt: A Quilt Story

A couple of days ago Iris posted the announcement that the Stephenie Meyer Quilt which the Twilight Quilters Coven made was finished and on it's way to be quilted. I thought it was high time that a entry be published detailing how the quilt came to be.

At the beginning of April, the ladies that had been together at Twilight Moms supporting each other as they worked through the steps of the Twilight Mystery Quilt, started talking about how to fill their quilting time until the next steps were released since the quilt had been indeterminably delayed. We had all become good friends over the months despite none of us having ever met in person. We wanted to be able to continue to have something to work on together and chat about so as not to lose touch with each other.

In only a couple of days we had decided to make a quilt for Stephenie Meyer, designed the quilt, and organized into a quilter's coven. As quilters, we all thought what better way for us to show our love for Twilight and Stephenie Meyer than to make a quilt. We soon decided on our name through voting and the Twilight Quilters Coven was born!

We wanted all four of the books' iconic covers to be represented. Other blocks were suggested to represent characters and book events. A quote from each book would be chosen through a vote and used as cornerstones. We decided that a medallion-style quilt would best accomodate all of our needs.

Elizabeth graciously accepted leadership of our project and creatively organized all of our ideas into a quilt layout. She posted a dedicated thread at Twilight Moms for the quilt, drafted the quilt into a picture model, and set our deadline (roughly May 31st).



Elizabeth, Iris, Lisa, Liz, Jean, Jerri Lynn, Joyce, Shannon and Wanda would sew the blocks. All the blocks would be sent to Elizabeth and she would sew them all into the quilt top. The quilt would be quilted by a longarm quilter. Our goal would be to give it to Stephenie Meyer, hopefully personally.

We were fortunate that there were already some Twilight patterns available. Catherine Magraith had designed patterns for the Twilight Hands/Forbidden Fruit, Pawprint, and La Push Beach. The patterns are posted at Sewhooked under guest patterns. She granted permission for their use in our quilt and made a couple more unpublished Twilight patterns available to us: Bella's Truck, New Moon Parrot Tulips, and Bella's Bracelet. A Jennifer Ofenstein Sewhooked Twilight pattern was used for the Jacob Howling Wolf.

The rest of the blocks were either designed by the individual participants or modified from existing non-Twilight patterns to suit the quilt. Iris designed and constructed these blocks: The Meadow, Edward's Crystal Heart, Isle Esme/Feathers (using the Sewhooked Jennifer Ofenstein Quill pattern as it's foundation), Esme/Carlisle, and The Volturi: Clock Tower at Volterra. Jerri Lynn designed Charlie's block and machine embroidered the cornerstone book quotes. Elizabeth designed Vampire Baseball, Edward's Eyes, the Eclipse Ribbon, and the Breaking Dawn Chessboard. Wanda designed the Forks Trees. Joyce modified a pattern for Renesmee's Locket from a Shae Merritt Zelda Bomb pattern located at Sewhoooked. Shannon used a Jennifer Ofenstein Sewhooked Harry Potter pattern for the Alice/Jasper Crystal Ball.

Our project gained the attention of Vivian Love of Quilts with Love. Vivian became a Twilight Convert recently (read her blog entry here) because, afterall, who can resist Twilight? Vivian volunteered to donate the batting and quilt the Twilight Quilt.

A few changes were made along the way, but the quilt finished essentially as we planned it. Lisa and Liz had to drop out, but the Edward/Bella Cottage block was reassigned to Shannon. The Lion/Lamb block was substituted for the Wedding Flowers block since Shannon successfully pieced the Edward/Bella Wedding Dance block. Edward's Eyes was changed slightly to make it easier to construct as a 5" block.



The quilt has arrived safely at Quilts with Love. We all can't wait to see it and some of us are even planning a trip to see the finished quilt. It wouldn't be fair that only Elizabeth and Vivian get to see it. We all may finally meet each other.

Stay tuned for more member entries about individual blocks in the quilt like Iris' entry for The Volturi: Clock Tower at Volterra.

Stephenie Meyer Quilt: It's Finished, It's Finished

Couldn't wait for Elizabeth to do any posting, had to put up the picture of the finished quilt top!!! Beautiful isn't it!!!! On it's way to Vivian's, can't wait to see the quilting on it!

Mystery Quilt Challenge

Hello Coven members. I don't know about you but I've been missing the momentum of the original Twilight Mystery Quilt we all started months ago. I miss the excitement of getting a new pattern every two weeks and the fun of sharing our blocks. So, in that vein I'm going to issue our next TQC project: Finish the Mystery Quilts! And that title is still appropriate since it will be a mystery what everyone comes up with! First of all, to refresh memories, the original Twilight Mystery Quilt patterns can be found at Zeppelin Threads and our individual progress at TMs discussion thread. Zeppelin Threads' pattern is still in limbo but that turned out to be a great opportunity for us to expand our creativity, finding some wonderful paper pieced patterns at Sewhooked; Twilight patterns by Cat Magraith and a myriad of others that have been adapted for our quilts. Some of us also bought or designed other patterns. I will be sharing my Edward's Meadow, Volturi Clock Tower, and Edward's Crystal Heart patterns in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned!

So, let's give ourselves 10 weeks, till August 31st to finish up the tops! Going by my current design I have 13 "blocks" to finish, not sure how many everyone else has and of course everyone keeps evolving their designs, which makes it so exciting. Every two weeks I'll be asking for progress "reports". It will be easier to continue the discussion on TMs, but please send in photos, ideas, thoughts to our email: twilightquilterscoven@gmail.com and comment on posts over here too. The more input the better!

At the end of the 10 weeks we can all show off our tops and then start the creative "how are we going to quilt this" discussion. I'm hoping we can get input from the talented Vivian Love who is going to quilt our Stephenie quilt. If you haven't checked out her blog Quilts with Love head on over now, she has some lovely work!

Iris

Angie

I'm Angie, one of the newborns around here.

My three children and I moved from Las Vegas to Asheville, North Carolina in February of 2008. We met and married my husband DJ and his two children by August of 2008. Needless to say the last year and a half has been exciting.

I have been quilting for five years. I started quilting because I thought it would be a cheaper and more effective form of therapy than going to a shrink when I was trying to survive a divorce. Well, I was wrong about the cheaper part but dead on about the effective part. I liked it so much that I started a business doing longarm quilting out of my home. With five kids at home, it has become a great way to be productive as well as keep my house in running order. I decided to name it 5 Little Monkeys Quilting in honor of the people who inspired me to make quilting a career.

I had not read or really even knew all that much about Twilight until after it came out on video. I have a friend that is a huge fan and she asked me a few times if I had seen it yet and kept saying "you should, you will love it." So I added it to my Netflix account and didn't think much about it...then it came in the mail. I conned my hubby into watching it with me one night. I thought it was pretty good but even before it was over I remember telling him "I think I will have to read the book because it just seems like there is soooooo much of this story that is missing!" So a couple of days later, I was in the grocery store and there it was on the shelf, calling me (I had no idea thre were about 2600 pages to read). I debated about it for awhile but had been looking for a reason to start reading again and thought it would be a good excuse. And as most Twilighters know, that was only the beginning! I was hooked like a fat kid on cake! I devoured all 4 books in about a week and a half.

I started dreaming about a Twilight quilt (literally, I actually woke up in the middle of the night from dreams about a quilt with bi gmossy green trees and wonderful fog...) so I started designing one and got blocked. I had a great picture in my head but was having a hard time getting it into fabric. So I decided to Google twilight quilt for inspiration and lo and behold whose site do I find, you guessed itthe Twilight Quilters Coven. I thought "Yeah, I am not a TOTAL freak, there are other quilters out there with the same obsession!" So I emailed them and asked if I could play, too, and now I am an official part of the Coven! I have always kind of felt like the youngest quilter in the world, nevermind making a quilt like this, so it was nice to meet not only quilters that are my age but also that think that Twilight is a great lifestyle.

The New Moon quilt is my first project with the group but I hope they keep me around to work on the future quilt, too!