Rebel's Challenge 2012: Patty

Great color!

Patty's Batiks, Square in a Square

Rebel's Challenge: Buffy

Work in progress.  Maybe good for practicing thread painting.
24"x24"

Rebel's Challenge, Nifty

Nifty used the challenge fabric in one of her Streak Of Lightening blocks, i.e. lower left corner.  Inspired by quilt in BOLD IMPROVISATIONS,  by Scott Heffley.  That quilt has inspired multiple Rebels quilts

Rebel's Challenge, Mary's String Piecing

Dawn makes a box for Rebel's Challenge

Pattern from:   Zakka Style, compiled by Rashida Coleman-Hale.  She defines Zakka as an aesthetic and design style, mainly focused on household items that enhance one's environment.  

More from Rebel's Challenge

Miki:  Windows





Lisa:  work in progress, she's planning foliage applique in center

Pam's Rebel's Challenge Quilt

Challenge Fabric above, and Pam's Tropical Quilt below.  

Miki takes Gwen Marston workshop: Liberated Medallions

Exciting start!  Another great workshop, sponsored by Two Thimbles, Bellingham, WA

Buffy takes a Gwen Marston Workshop on Small Quilts, 5/19/12

First, my favorite of Gwen's small quilts.

Second, Gwen and Buffy, with Buffy's small quilt.  Photographer, Nifty, says she sorry about the antler, but we were meeting in the Bellingham, WA, Elks Club.  My quilt was made from the scraps from the Carol Taylor workshop.  Still lots of scraps, of course.

Gwen had a list of the advantages of making small quilts.  To her list, I would add:  a good way to use batting scraps; and one can make just as many mistakes on a small quilt, moving one's learning curve along.

Buffy's "Meditation," 15" x 15"

Started in Carol Taylor workshop on collage and couching, at La Conner Quilt Museum, La Conner, WA

More Folk Art House Quilts by Mary

Mary continues to amaze us with her whimsical house quilts.  These are for the carpenters remodeling her house.

Gee's Bend Workshop, Tina's Quilt

Tina, Nifty, Mary, Bonnie, and Victoria traveled to the Alabama Folk School for a workshop with China and Mary Ann Pettway.  This is Tina's quilt, which includes scraps from her mother as the sashing.

Dia de los Muertos Quilt by Em

This quilt top is just crammed with images and vignettes.  It's like reading a book to find all the stories and imaginative touches.

Rebels Challenge Fabric, Dianne makes a notebook cover

She says she has too many UFOs and has to limit challenge to small items.  First view:  back.  Second view:   closed.  Third view:  open to notebook. 

Dawn: Wonky setting of left overs

Patty adds braided border to her Batik String quilt

Patty and her batik scraps

More from February Rebels:  our weather was dismal for weeks, but that meant more and brighter quilts at the February meeting.

Nifty finishes Spider Web top

An amazing work of piecing and fabrics.  Rebels were all inspired, but doubt they will try this.  It took Nifty all winter.

Cindy's Yukata Cloth Quilt

A "convergence style" quilt, based on fibonacci number series.

Cindy's Mini-Amish

 The Amish center is leftovers from another trip.  

Rebel Folk Artist: Mary

Mary's house is undergoing a major remodel.  She made these small quilts for the workers.  The one labeled "color" was for the designer.  He wanted to paint everything gray.  Mary was a first grade teacher in her previous life, a job requiring lots of creativity and imagination.

Dianne is doing complex portraits

 Learned from books by Sue Carlson.....Fish first, then the sun in preparation for the portrait of my husband, whose nose is my challenge. I am also trying out different framing ideas. Fish is traditional framing, the Sun on stretcher bars.

Miki: Colors of Provence

This quilt was inspired by your quilt ( the Circle in a Circle quilt) and the fabrics you gave me.  I wanted to break out of my comfy color zone, and this was how I did it.  Note:  I only gave her a small handful of tiny scraps.

Miki at February Rebels

This is called Mexican Stars.  It is from a pattern by Southwind Designs.  I fell in love with the design and had to make it.

Buffy is Honored!

Buffy--aka Sally--our fearless Rebels leader, was chosen as the featured quilt maker of the year for Quilters Anonymous!  "QA" is a Seattle area quilt guild with around 500 members.  Their annual show is this weekend.  Here are some of Buffy's beautiful quilts on display at the show.