Quilting Arts Challenges

Text Me Challenge "Tlk 2 Me"

suzannegegna — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:14:01 GMT

a rose by any other name.... Text Me Challenge

robin koenig — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:39:07 GMT

What would have happened to Romeo and Juliet if they had had cell phones?

A Good Bood

Donna Bilda — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:23:14 GMT

When reading a book, a person actually sees the words in their mind and feels the emotions these words evoke. This is me reading "A Good Book" running through a myriad of emotions as the story progresses from "Once upon a time" to "and they lived happily ever after."

Text Me reader challenge

shmilyface — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:34:20 GMT

couch potato n. Slang A person who spends much time sitting or lying down, usually watching television.

Queen B

bjbrown — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:48:52 GMT

I used color washes for the background and painted with acrylic paint the fabric I used to applique the letter B and make the flowers. I beaded the background and used vintage lace and ribbon for trim plus some new lace.

Live Laugh Love Faerie Tales

goldenhair — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:00:53 GMT

Entry into" Text Me "Challenge,hand appliqued with gold thread and machine quilted, this reflects the love and influence of Faerie Tales in my life.

Text Me Challenge- Matanuska

dhillsgrove — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:24:22 GMT

Inspired by the Robert Frost Poem- The Road Not Taken. Matanuska is a glacier we hiked while on a visit to Alaska in 2013. Our family often vacations in areas where fewer people go because we enjoy gettting out in nature and away from the hustle and bustle and electronics of everyday life. Glaciers show so many textures and the light bounces off them in so many ways I used a variety of fabrics to show changes. There is a slight blue tint on one section often seen along with brighter blue in the ice.

"Word, Words, Words"

Nancy Smeltzer — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:00:42 GMT

"Words, Words, Words" is an 8" square, (20.5cm square) art quilt embellished with buttons and beads. It is an entry for Quilting Arts Reader Challenge "Text Me" and is based on my love of different styles of fonts. Even when I don't know the language, I love the shape of letters. Some are tentative and some are bold, but they all convey meaning just by the very nature of the shapes of the symbols.

The original image was first composed on Photoshop Elements and then printed on fabric that was run through my ink jet printer.

Illustrated Words(Text Me Challenge)

2clart — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:37:16 GMT

Materials used are a combination of cloth,paper,beads,my illustrations done with permanent ink pen and colored pencils,and threads.The boarder was zigzagged on machine first ,then I used irridesent white cording for the edges -handstiching it onto the boarder of the piece.

Terre-Lune

MarianneB15 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:17:16 GMT

Qui n'a pas rêvé d'aller sur la lune!

Mapping It Out: The Harvest

RUEdOAK — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:04:46 GMT

12" x 10". Machine felting, ink jet printed line art applique, hand and machine quilted, button embellishment.

"Mapping" for me means using visual metaphors as a way to describe a complex concept or organization. For 30+ years as a visual practitioner in the field of graphic facilitation, I have created these maps wall-size, using poster bond, felt pens and chalk pastel.

"The Harvest" uses a tree as a "natural system" to identify the key elements of art quilting. The embellished buttons are the harvest of art quilts, making their way to shows and guilds, our loved ones and (hopefully) collectors!

Jennifer Landau

A Sky Map of Somewhere Over the Midwest

Nancy Smeltzer — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:16:31 GMT

"While taking a red-eye flight back from the West Coast, I happened to look out the window somewhere over the Midwest. There, all of the landscape is laid out in grids, and at 30,000 feet, on a clear night, all that marks one town from the next are the streets lined by gold mercury vapor lights and blue tungsten lights. At night, the sight is magical as the scene stretches for miles as one small town after another rolls by. I would have never attempted this on a large scale quilt, as there would have been just too many buttons or beads, but on a 10" x 12" ( 25.25 cm x 30.5 cm) this small art quilt is the perfect size for what I wanted to record."

"Happy Cuppa Jo"

CowgirlBB — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:40:32 GMT

This is a representation of how I feel in the morning while drinking my coffee from my favorite cup. I love looking out my window and watching the birds as they flutter through my flowers and fruit trees in my back yard. The coffee cup is my design and I made it with free motion embroidery using a very small stitch to give the cup a ceramic look. The steam is some cotton fibers I pulled from some old jeans. And, of course, had to add some bling. It is 8 x 10 and the perfect size to set my old fashion perculator coffee pot on that was given to me by my mother-in-law.

"Caserta Place" aerial view map!

Paula Brown — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:50:47 GMT

I designed this quilt of our street from Google Earth snaps. Our house is the one with the star on it. The details are quite accurate even down to the houses with pools, colors of roofs and the driveways are on the correct side.

heart of hearts

BetsyJB — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:42:17 GMT