Nifty has been busy, thanks to snow days.

 Applique started in workshop with Gwen Marston.  The rest come from the orphan block stash.

 Started at a retreat with Bumble Beans using stash from Victoria and other participants.  This quilt was an exercise in trying out Victoria's Accu-cutter; as well as focusing on value for the design.

Star diamonds cut from "made fabric", using template from Gwen Marston.  Polka dots from stash, and plaid from sale shelf at Aunt Mary's Quilt shop in Smokey Point.

QA Guild Challenge, 2012, "Yikes Yellow", 24"x24"

Rules:  Use color drawn from paper bag, yellow, as main color.  Include complement, violet.  OK to use black and white, and variations of the two main colors.  Include at least one leaf.  Maximum perimeter: 120"

The fun part was quilting the leaf motifs borrowed from the black and white print.  

Vintage Blocks

Vintage Block seen at La Conner Quilt Museum  12/30/11

And Another

New Life for the Doll Quilts!!

The doll quilts didn't all sell at Christmas...some came home...but luckily they make great placemats!! These were left-over blocks from a stack and whack baby quilt...now re-purposed twice...

Paty's Stripes, December Rebels

She combined thrift market stripes with some from her stash. Idea from Kaffe Fassett book.

Flannel Baby Quilt by Nifty

She used some vintage flannel from making her son's baby clothes. It has a sock monkey back, really makes the quilt.

See: niftyquilts.blogspot.com

Pam's Christmas Composite

Several parts of this wall hanging come from different people so it is a creation of memories. Nifty from our group gave me the little Santa piece. The 5 stars were left over from a Buggy Barn class (Crazy Goose Chase pattern from their book Certifiably Crazy) and they were just waiting on my design wall for Santa to join them. The background and outer border are from my Christmas stash and the backing is from a friend who shared some fabric she inherited from her friend who passed away. The 5 snowflake buttons came from a box of buttons that belonged to a childhood friend's mother.

Opening-Night-at-Seattle-Symphony Coat, more pictures

Process: First I strip pieced 2 1/2 in strips of batik, then quilted on the longarm using thin flannel as batt and a flower/leaf design. I then zig zagged fibers on each seam line. I made some of the fibers using decorative threads, ribbon floss, and yarns. After each fiber was sewn on I used that fiber to crochet 2 inches of lace at the bottom and on the 2 sides. I then stitched the coat according to the Lynda McPhee pattern (2 seams). I beaded the back seam line with leaf beads (small and large) and am now in the process of beading each of the strips with similar color beads as the center of each flower and seed beads on part of the stems and leaves.

December Meeting

Roberta brought a two-sided quilt she purchased in China, near the Great Wall.  This is just a portion of the quilt.

It had these little stuffed creatures sewn on.

This is a close up from the other side.  These blocks are each about 4 inches at most.

Then she pulled out this amazing coat!  She's making it for her sister.  She's used strips of batiks, and embellished the seams with yarn.

She's just begun applying beads to it.

Pam whipped up this little treasure since our last meeting.  

And Patty showed us how she's been playing with scraps.

Lady Bug Bag Quilt Done

Background filler pattern: loops and stipple combo

Jockey's Cap, 34"x45"

Pattern by Kaffe Fassett, in Museum Quilts, 2005.

Hand pieced, hand quilted, machine applique.

Miki answers a challenge

This was done as a challenge for Modern 8. We needed to go to http://www.design-seeds.com/p/palette-search.html and select a palette. From there, we selected fabric to match the palette. The object was to use all the colors in the chosen palette. Then we were to make a quilt, any size, in the style of Gees Bend quilters or Jean Wells. I selected the palette, Beaded Hues.

It was a really fun challenge, and I think I will do it again just for fun.

Modern Jacob's Ladder by Miki

The background shows more "in person", the ladder/lattice shows more in the photo.

November Meeting

The Rebels gathered to this week for show and tell, with special guest, Victoria.  Here are some of the creations.  More to come soon.

Victoria's new Christmas quilt

Victoria with a work in progress

Alexis with her new bed quilt (front)

Back

Patty's corduroy challenge

Back

One of Roberta's many quilts for Camp Aaron.

LeeAnn's Goodwill Treasures, 54 x 80"

Credits

Thanks to Cindy for identifying source of Patty's pattern: H.D. Designs, Mary Lou Hallenbeck.

Photo is of original material that Patty used to make her blocks.

Patty goes to Guild Day Camp, October 2011

Patty's comments: Those are the four patch posie

blocks I made after day camp with Becca Knox last Friday. I used that

strange tropical print that I had brought to Rebels the month before. You

were trying to figure out the color scheme.

BuffY: Does anyone in blog land know who gets credit for this technique?

The Rebels Celebrate Corduroy Appreciation Day!

The Rebels challenged themselves to use this corduroy in a quilt.

Here are some of the items they made!

Buffy made Chinese Coins.

Dawn made this bag.

And it's reversible!

Roberta, perhaps the most rebellious of all, made this INSTEAD of  doing her gardening.  She calls it "Rebel in Fall."

There's the challenge fabric, hidden in the leaves she was SUPPOSED to be raking.

Cindy was on the road, so didn't get the challenge piece, but she made this from a thrift store find and a pair of her husband's jeans.

Our brand new member, Pam, got into the spirit too!

She even included a zipper!

Buffy is our fearless leader when it comes to corduroy!  She made this quilt several years ago in a class with Gwen Marston.

Another corduroy beauty by Buffy, also made in a class with Gwen some years ago.

For other Rebel challenge corduroy quilts, click these links!
 Miki, Mary, Victoria and Nifty

POWER SUIT challenge

This was my Power Suit Challenge quilt.   We were given a bunch of tailor's materials, and asked to make something that conjured up POWER SUIT to us...  I took it literally, and focused on the Materials and choices you make when you get a custom suit made... Cuffs, collars, buttons, tailoring stitches, basting, measuring etc... I crammed it full of stuff... Fun challenge.. The show of quilts will be traveling to Long Beach and somewhere else... Guess I should know that huh? See ya all soon! - Victoria

Cindy is home with new vest