‘Grounded Origins’ is the quilt I created for the July Focus Through the Prism Log Cabin quilt challenge. Once again, I had a lot of fun this month finding a unique way to interpret this quilting challenge. 
My focus color on this one is orange. Have you discovered what’s hidden in this chaos? 
Perhaps a hidden friendship star block, a monkey wrench, a nine patch, a flying geese or two, an hour glass, …
and even a little square in a square block. It turns out that teeny tiny piecing isn’t so bad as long as you have a month to make a 20” quilt. 
And now – if you look from a bit of a distance you can see that my log cabin quilt – Grounded Origins – you may notice the base of a tree. 
I did my fun little flange of cherrywood orange on just the bottom and left side of the quilt. 
Now the quilting – I think the quilting was my favorite part of this piece. I attempted to channel my inner Angela Walters for the free motion quilting. 
I referenced her book, In the Studio with Angela Walters: Machine-Quilting Design Concepts Add Movement, Contrast, Depth & More
And here are all three of my Focus Through the Prism Challenge Quilts so far! I’m having such a great time making these fun 20” challenge quilts. From the looks and sounds of it in the ‘Focus Through the Prism’ Facebook group – other participants are having a great time too! Be sure to check out the other quilts made for this challenge by going to this post. It’s not too late for you to join in the fun! There are still four challenges left! The next one goes up tomorrow!
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This looks like it's been a really interesting challenge – your piecing on such small quilts looks amazing! 🙂
Wow, Kim. Lots of fabric scraps. I can find most of the designs you talk about and the tree trunk was clear as day. Can't see any log cabin….but I'm a literal through and through no matter how imaginative I want to be!!!!