Lets get Wonky

This Saturday id National Quilting Day and I will be manning the Habitat for Humanity table for the Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum. We make wall hangings with a house theme to give to each family when they move into their new house. I was put in charge of wonky houses...I have never made a wonky house.

A member of my guild, Kris Jarchow of Sew Sunshine made a really fun wonky house quilt and I thought..I can do that! HAHA

I tried with prints...huge fail. Then I tried with solids. Much better results. This is South Beach since I made it with soft pastels, it reminded me of Miami.

Then I did one with very limited palette and some prints and am fairly happy with it.

I will be sewing on site during the event, and had started a couple of small houses with print doors and a contrasting roof and added them to another house I wasn't super pleased with but paired with the smaller houses it worked well. Of course it needs quilted, but that comes later.

So, all in all I am pretty comfortable now with making wonky houses. Just had to find my way to make them.

Left Turns

Left Turn and Urbanite

I don't quilt my work generally. I need to change that especially on the smaller items. I quilted 2 items that have been sitting for a year on one, and almost 2 years on the other. Finally got off my duff and went for it. While the quilting is very simple, I am still not completely comfortable working on my domestic. I always feel like I need just one more arm but know that the more I do, the better I will get.

Left turn - Derived from an image of a modern rug. It just screamed, I am a quilt, not a rug.

I found an image while searching for mid century art or images or some such and came across a picture that I liked in both shape and color. 

Then, on the QDAD FB group, a challenge was put forth based on an image of architecture with a specific palette I really liked. 

Took me over a year to put the two together, the shape I liked and the palette I loved. The result is Urbanite.

I participated in the MQG Mini Swap and was paired with another Julie in Australia. We got to chat a bit via messenger so got to learn each other tastes a bit more. Julie liked oranges and teals, and i said, "Like the patina of aged copper?", she looked it up and said yes, exactly that so I knew precisely what palette I would use.

Patina for Julie Haywood, my MQG Mini Swap Partner down under.

Lincoln MQG 2018 QuiltCon Charity Quilt

I couldn't be more proud of my guild mates from the Lincoln MQG. While the design was mine, so many of my fellow members gave input and hard work in making my vision come to life. There will be an official post on our blog, but I just had to share it here. Because I live an hour away from where our meetings are held, I have not seen the quilt since it's completion and am looking forward to touching it.

Whats new!

So, the Lincoln Modern Quilt Guild had a really fun challenge this last month. It was called That's Modern and each member drew a card from a bag with an element of modern quilting on it, such as improvisation or minimal. I got bold and graphic. We were to make a 16" finished piece with black, white and one other color in solids. It was so fun to see all the different interpretations of each prompt. Here is what I came up with

Also, from our last show and tell, I made these cute little mid century houses.

Challenges..

I took part in a group improv challenge and it was such fun. The challenge was to use scraps and orphan blocks ( ones left over or never finished) and create an improvisational piece from a picture.

So, I had found this picture of a nice little mid century credenza, but really loved the art sitting on it more.

It was the perfect starting point for me. So I went thru my orphaned things looking for blues and greys and lights that would work well. Then I hit the scrap drawers and pulled more fabrics

I had some nice things in the orphan pile like some cyan prints done at a LMQG class and some other piecing left over or not used.

So, off it went to play, and here is the result.

I call this piece Metro and it reminds me of San Francisco, where I grew up. 

The moral of this post..challenge yourself..you will usually be pleasantly surprised with the results.

Why, why, why!?

There has been an uproar over a Facebook group called Worldwide Quilting Group. I did not belong to it, which after reading about what has happened, I am very glad I didn't. It appears the administrator of the group has been stealing other creators free content, editing it and re-posting it as a PDF file and taking credit for its creation. How rude. Then, when they were called out for it, said "opps, sorry I didn't know",  and immediately kicked and blocked the creator of said content, and anyone else who voiced their outrage at what she had done. 

The woman had the gaul to say she didn't know it was wrong. How could you NOT know that copy / pasting a tutorial, going through it page by page removing any mention of the original creators name and website, and repackaging it into a PDF available for download was not WRONG!!

Was it so important for this woman to garner praise and worship from other quilters, to boost her own ego, that she outright stole another quilters work and tried to pass it off as her own?

The group is now a "private" group and the thief and her cronies will dump/block anyone who brings this incident up. As far as anyone knows the content is still up on this group and available for more thieves to steal.

A great article was written over at Hunters Design Studio as to why this is so, so wrong. Please go read and educate yourself on how to not steal another persons hard work.

Greenery

I decided to enter a challenge, the Pantone 2017 Quilt Challenge using the color "Greenery" All the self doubts come out that its not good enough, green enough, interesting enough but I'm doing it anyway. So, here is my quilt top only. It measures W-33.5 x L-45.5