Rebels Challenge 2012: Miki

Miki chose a softer palette than the other Rebels.  This is just the first block.  Stand by for more.

Rebels Challenge 2012: Cindy

She credits Janet Steadman for technique/inspiration.

Rebels Challenge: Patty

She had a lot of the strips on hand, and just put them together.

Rebels Challenge: Buffy

Found the colors fun to use, but had some problem hiding the natives and the buffalo.  Sashing is Hawaiian, border is 60's flower power, indigo assembled from bark cloth and Hawaiian scraps.

Roberta's Free Form Camp Erin Quilt

Made from her many scraps from long-arm quilting Camp Erin quilts.  Looks like she is having fun!

Rebels Challenge Fabric

Gift from Miki to Rebels for challenge.  Quilts due, this week,  2/22/12.

Dianne: Birds Quilt

The pattern was in a little book with bird ideas. Very time consuming....and then I decided to try my hand at machine quilting.  Oh, yesI decided to use muslin and see how it worked--  generally just fine. 

Mary's Sea Turtle Quilt

Mary has a 10 year old friend, and a while back, he requested a Sea Turtle Quilt.  Recently she found some Sea Turtle fabric, and made this Hawaiian themed quilt for her friend.

V's baskets

Just Like Sujata, I too had a block with baskets from mutual friend Kathie.  I had worked very quickly on mine and then sort of got stumped on how to finish it,and put it away for a while... Since I have a hard time staying SMALL in size on quilts.... I had to go big, (it's an addiction to go big)  But I wanted to keep the focus on the baskets... I hoped by adding the blue bird fabric in the border to add direction and also mitering the corners to give it a dramatic amount of movement...  The verdict is still out whether I am finished with this quilt. I may applique a bunch of oldies orphans on it...   But I will let it simmer for now and contemplate!

Dianne's Finish, Van Gogh Theme Fabric

Dianne had put this one away for over a year, but finally finished.  This is a great strategy that I've admired and wanted to try for a long time.  Some of the theme fabric is used in the half square triangles, giving unity to the quilt.  It works especially well with these blocks.  Reference:  Quilters Newsletter Magazine, October 2003, article by Sandy Turner.  She states that she has tried several blocks for this technique, but "Birds in the Air" block works best for her.
Another version of this technique (using theme fabrics in surrounding/supporting blocks) is in 9-Patch Pizzazz by Judy Sisneros, C&T, 2006

Spring Beauty and more...

Spring Beauty (top, 56" x 65") is an original design inspired by the work of other quilters. The colors and blocks are similar to a quilt shown by Adele Athea at our guild show in spring 2009. I created the blocks enjoying the brillant colors. Two years later I separated the blocks to create a surrounding frame for the iris print I discovered at our 2011 show last spring. I cut the iris into segments adding strips of vivid green silk. Finally I had a composition that I really liked! I machine quilted it on the 1971 Bernina from Buffy/Sally.

The last post I did was right after our quilt show last April. Last year was full of many distractions and challenges. I plan to rejoin the group with regular postings. If you would like to know more about my last year, I've written about it on our blog http://www.ecofeminismblog.org/. One of the highlights of the year was a trip to central Colorado in early October. These delightful scarecrows appeared outside of many different shops pleasing locals and visitors alike. I knew you would enjoy seeing the quilter lounging with me outside Bev's Stitchery in Buena Vista, CO. The knitter was posing on the porch of Serendipity Yarns in the same town.

Dianne's Four & Twenty Blackbirds Baked in Pie

She started with blackbird fabric, then drafted the larger birds and other elements from that.

A mini quilt

Mini quilt

Baskets are appliqued by Kathie Holland. The block was sent to me almost six months ago.. Yes. I don't know why it took as long as it did! Scraps from LeeAnn surround the baskets
Borders are machine pieced and quilt is machine quilted.

Buffy, I am for once enjoying the machine quilting!
:)

Lisa: Challenge Quilt

Artist’s statement:

Blue is my favorite color, but I couldn’t tell why. I suppose it speaks to me, maybe because I love winter and the light this season bring with it. The original painting by Gabriele Münter “Haus in Wintersonne” (1909) is typical scenery in the village of Murnau in the Bavarian Alps. Gabriele was Wassily Kandinsky’s girlfriend, and together with several other well-known artists, core members of the artist’s movement “Der Blaue Reiter”.

The challenge was to take a painting and to NOT replicate the painting, instead use the color palette only.

Lisa mentioned that the quilting lines reminded her of skiing.  

Miki's Play Blocks and Quilts, January Rebels

The one on the top is the 15 Minute Play BOM quilt.  I made fabric from my Kaffe stash and used Kona Aqua for the background and a Kaffe shot cotton for the sashing and binding.  The idea for the BOM blocks was to use made fabric in more traditional blocks.

The bottom photo is my Intuition Quilt as part of the Intuition Quilt challenge on 15 Minute Play last year.  It was my first improvisational quilt, and I call it Self Portrait.  It has colors and blocks I love, and I just had great fun enjoying the process. 

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)

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Patty's corduroy challenge

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One of Roberta's many quilts for Camp Aaron.

LeeAnn's Goodwill Treasures, 54 x 80"