30by30: 8.) Raining Cats & Dogs Block of the Month Club

With some of my 29th birthday money, I signed up for this Block of the Month quilt club through Pioneer Quilts in Clackamas. It's called Raining Cats & Dogs and one thing that really drew me to it was the colors being used. It's a full sized quilt, so not large enough for our bed but will work well as a guest bed quilt. This is an applique heavy quilt, which is something I've never worked with before. How it works is you go to the shop once a month and pick up the block packet with that month's block instructions and fabrics. Then you cut everything out, sew it together and begin your hand applique work. I'm doing everything with just the needle-turn method because it seemed the easiest as well at the method that would stand the test of time the best. After I am done assembling it, I will most likely combine hand quilting and long-arm machine quilt it since there is a LOT going on with small details. The picture is just the top of the quilt, but each pattern shows the quilting that is expected. Guaranteed this quilt will take me longer then until my 30th birthday to complete, however, since I'm beginning to work on it now it all naturally counts toward that 30 art projects before 30 goal :)