Architectural Quilt Challenge

[Lois B.]

I keep thinking about this too. I have been wanting to make a quilted rendition of my home. It is such a lovely little house. People I don't know have rung my door bell to ask me the paint colors. I get compliments all the time from people I hardly know about how charming it is. I would love to do it so I have to read the challenge and think about it somemore. I am not due for the Whisper Challenge until next summer. I want to stay productive until then. I do work part time and I am beginning to consider that my other part time work is quilting. That does not mean I see a way to turn this work into something that yields financial remuneration, but then I am a few years past retirement age so I guess that's okay. I am working on my GFG quilt. It needs to come off the design wall and in order to make way for other WIP (work in progress). Its the Whisper Quilt and the Nowns quilt that has got me moving. Anyway I am thinking.

[Lois B.]

I so look forward to seeing/hearing about all of your ideas! I think this challenge is going to be really fun and a great way for me (all of us?) to grow as a quilter. All of the ideas mentioned so far sound so intriguing!!

Lois, what is the Whisper Quilt, Nowns Quilt, and GFG Quilt?

[Lois B.]

You could check out Chinese Whispers in the Forum and find out more than you'd ever want to know about 10 TQS members (5 from Great Britain, Scottland, & Ireland and 5 from the good old USA) who have taken the Chinese Whisper Challenge to create a series of quilts to be exhibited in May of 2014 at Loch Lomond Quilt Show in Scotland. You may want to read a little bit about it but we tend to get a little carried away with it all and just carry-on a bit.

Laura Nowns gave a 6 wk course in TQS classrooms that was sort of a beginner sampler class and a bunch of us did it together and posted blocks, encouagement and info on different ways to construct those blocks as we went along. The class is finished but we are still finishing up our quilts. You can check out that thread too. Its the Laura Nowns Thread.

And I have nearly finished piecing a Gandmother's Flower Garden bedsize quilt using Gyleen Fitzgerald's (show #909) butterfly seams. I have all the blocks sewn together in rows and now I am sewing the rows together. Its taking up too much space on my design wall and I have been procrastinating because sewing the rows together is so much more tedious than sewing the blocks. But I've got to sew it as I take it down so I don't get the order all messed up. I did lots of sewing and riping today. I nearly completed an entire row when I discovered the blocks weren't lined up correctly.

[Lois B.]

Oh, thank you Lois! That GFG is beautiful!! I love the color placement you've done there -- very pretty!

I'll look up those other threads; I have missed so much being gone a month!

[Lois B.]

Very pretty, Lois! Love your colours! I love GMFG.
It's wonderful to begin a project, but even better to *start* to finish it. As well, with the challenges coming up - the architectural one and the Whispering one, I think you may need that space on your design wall pretty soon. Then, apparently, you have 'another Laura Nownes" sampler on the go.

[Nancy R.]

Very nice, Lois! I love GFGs. They have so much tradition behind them.
Nancy

[Nancy R.]

That's a beautiful GFG Lois. I'm really curious about your home, sounds like a really neat place. Would you mind posting a photo? or would that be getting too personal?

[Lois B.]

Lambino, I'd be happy to post a photo but I don't have a very good one. I do have a nice one of the front porch. Maybe I should do a quilt of the porch. That might be architecture.

[Robin G.]

Lois, your house is charming!!! Maybe someday I'll make it there to see it in person! Until then, I'm looking forward to seeing the quilt you make! Hugs, Robin

[Lotti D.]

Makes me want to ring that doorbell and move in.... Could be dangerous

[Lotti D.]

Makes me want to ring that doorbell and move in.... Could be dangerous

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Should we move in together Lotti? I want to come too :wink:

Humor aside, no wonder you get people knocking on your door Lois. Enchanting! Without have seen the rest of it, which I'm sure is just as darling, I'd say a quilt of the front porch would be wonderful and definitely architectural. Thank you for sharing

[wendy w.]

Lois I want to live with you.................and lotti, Robin and Limbania.

[Rita C.]

And me! :mrgreen: Lois what a picture postcard porch! Of course it's architectural.

[Rita C.]

Lois I want to live with you.................and lotti, Robin and Limbania.

And me! :mrgreen: Lois what a picture postcard porch! Of course it's architectural.

The important question is - is there enough room in Lois's house for everyone's stashes? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Rita C.]

The important question is - is there enough room in Lois's house for everyone's stashes? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh now, I hadn't thought of that! Wouldn't want to be fighting over premium space for the stash. :lol:

Meanwhile, back to the topic... I am heading into Dublin today to have a look at St. Patrick's Cathedral and Christchurch Cathedral as I have a notion and want to see if it's doable. More anon.