Architectural Quilt Challenge

[Lotti D.]

great idea - but:
i don't like gingerbread
all my attempts at making proper gingerbread houses have ended up in a sticky mess (absolutely detest icing! - not good for a gingerbread house manufacturer)
so - leave that one up to someone more suited to the task

I would have thought that detesting icing would make you the ideal person to make it - more would end up on the cake, than in you :wink: :lol:

Other than that you could sew one with lots of Tom Russell bling 8)

[Lois B.]

Virtual parties are all the rage these days, I hear! :P :lol:
Tiled floors sound very very very architectural to me, just think of all those ancient mosaics, or the tiled walls in the Turkish mosques....
Whenever I ponder on this challenge I decide I've first got to go through my photo albums from old trips to Greece and to istanbul... :lol:
My new blue fabric for this challenge? Wasn't really planned, but as I have always wanted to make a blue quilt, I've been buying lots of blues this year... But yes, an architectural blue idea is taking shape in my brain... Now to get it out of there before it dissolves :roll:

Lotti, This post brought to mind pictures I've seen of buildings in the Greek Isles. I see white, white walls with very bright blue as accents. Was the blue the roof or the shutters. I think that in my mind I see clay tiles on the roof. Then there is the blue, blue sea as background. The colors of the Greek flag are there too. I can see why you would be looking at photos from Greece. I wonder what pictures are emerging in your mind.

[Lois B.]

I was in Switzerland a few years ago, and took loads and loads of pictures of architectural things. Doors, windows, fences,winding staircases, a sea of roof tops, lots and lots of geometric, and in my mind, artistic shots. Then, near the end of my visit, my memory card got full (yes, I've learned my lesson), and in order to take other needed pictures, I had to delete all the artsy-fartsy pictures. So, I'll just have to try to juggle my memory. ( or go back to Switzerland..)
Or I could just do a gingerbread house and use lots of large white rick-rack. :?

BTW I have a funny story of an engineer (my son) and an artist/chef (my soon-to-be DIL) making a gingerbread house when they were just getting to know one another. There was a protractor vs a spatula mini-war! Then are now still married since 10 years.

[Lois B.]

Virtual parties are all the rage these days, I hear! :P :lol:
Tiled floors sound very very very architectural to me, just think of all those ancient mosaics, or the tiled walls in the Turkish mosques....
Whenever I ponder on this challenge I decide I've first got to go through my photo albums from old trips to Greece and to istanbul... :lol:
My new blue fabric for this challenge? Wasn't really planned, but as I have always wanted to make a blue quilt, I've been buying lots of blues this year... But yes, an architectural blue idea is taking shape in my brain... Now to get it out of there before it dissolves :roll:

Lotti, This post brought to mind pictures I've seen of buildings in the Greek Isles. I see white, white walls with very bright blue as accents. Was the blue the roof or the shutters. I think that in my mind I see clay tiles on the roof. Then there is the blue, blue sea as background. The colors of the Greek flag are there too. I can see why you would be looking at photos from Greece. I wonder what pictures are emerging in your mind.

now, Lois, stop it! You are sending my mind down other directions, thinking of different architecture here that would be stunning to do in blue......there's this little old town we take all our visitors to see, as it is well preserved and has all of the best Brazil has to offer....including white-washed walls, blue doors & shutters, clay roof tiles, very old stone roads, the ocean to one side and lush rain forest to the other......yet I do not need another quilt idea! LOL!

Lotti, please say you'll do something similar so I won't be tempted to go down that particular road for this particular challenge.... :wink:

[Lois B.]

I was in Switzerland a few years ago, and took loads and loads of pictures of architectural things. Doors, windows, fences,winding staircases, a sea of roof tops, lots and lots of geometric, and in my mind, artistic shots. Then, near the end of my visit, my memory card got full (yes, I've learned my lesson), and in order to take other needed pictures, I had to delete all the artsy-fartsy pictures. So, I'll just have to try to juggle my memory. ( or go back to Switzerland..)
Or I could just do a gingerbread house and use lots of large white rick-rack. :?

BTW I have a funny story of an engineer (my son) and an artist/chef (my soon-to-be DIL) making a gingerbread house when they were just getting to know one another. There was a protractor vs a spatula mini-war! Then are now still married since 10 years.

oh my goodness, that is too funny about your son and his wife! I can only imagine (my grandfather is an engineer; my grandmother? an artist!)

But I am very sorry you had to delete all your artsy-fartsy photos from that trip! I have had to do the same; never any fun, and now I definitely carry an extra memory card or two, just in case. Your poor lost photos sound wonderful....maybe you can do an image search on-line to see if any similar photos from that area show up? At least to aid in this challenge? Not as fun as a return trip, but perhaps more feasible...

[Lois B.]

Well, Heather, as your names implies, many of us are 'learning as we go"

[wendy w.]

Hey Betty Jo and Teri see you're on the Newsletter with the challenge

[wendy w.]

I was in Switzerland a few years ago, and took loads and loads of pictures of architectural things. Doors, windows, fences,winding staircases, a sea of roof tops, lots and lots of geometric, and in my mind, artistic shots. Then, near the end of my visit, my memory card got full (yes, I've learned my lesson), and in order to take other needed pictures, I had to delete all the artsy-fartsy pictures. So, I'll just have to try to juggle my memory. ( or go back to Switzerland..)
Or I could just do a gingerbread house and use lots of large white rick-rack. :?

BTW I have a funny story of an engineer (my son) and an artist/chef (my soon-to-be DIL) making a gingerbread house when they were just getting to know one another. There was a protractor vs a spatula mini-war! Then are now still married since 10 years.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I bet they don't make gingerbread houses together any more either :wink:

[wendy w.]

Rosemary, you're right. Now she gets the kids to help while he's out working.

BTW, we have a little town near here, across the border in Ontario that is called the gingerbread house capital of Canada. All their houses are cute and quaint and lots of gables and dormer windows etc. Lois's house would fit in there nicely.

[wendy w.]

That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces.

Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future :evil: :wink:

[wendy w.]

That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces.

Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future :evil: :wink:

LOL, "evil wink" is the perfect pair of smilies there Limbania! My "some day" list is already long, though now that I'm using a machine I'm realizing maybe it's not as long as I feared.....perhaps there will be room some day for a quilt of that design.

[wendy w.]

That's a great story about your son and DIL Terrie :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wow, lots of great ideas for quilts flying around girls. Every one of them sound pretty good. Can't wait to see the final pieces.

Heather, that little old town sounds really neat. Maybe not a quilt for this challenge but... Maybe in the future :evil: :wink:

LOL, "evil wink" is the perfect pair of smilies there Limbania! My "some day" list is already long, though now that I'm using a machine I'm realizing maybe it's not as long as I feared.....perhaps there will be room some day for a quilt of that design.

Don't you believe it, that list is going to keep on growing faster than you realise :wink:

[wendy w.]

well, probably that is true, too of course. Although, whereas before I thought maybe I could finish a quilt per year, I do think I can get through them a little bit faster now. But you are very right, more ideas keep finding their way onto the list......this is going to be so much fun!

[wendy w.]

Just came across it this morning - 5 meters of white with little blue polka dots. Wonder why I bought that? So, I just stuck it in the wash and I decided that I'll use it for our guild's mystery quilt. (only need 3 meters for the mystery, so will have 2 left!) My list is ever expanding. At one point I wrote the ideas down and got up to 19. Then I stopped. This architectural quilt and the mystery with polka dots were never even near that list!

[Rita C.]

I wish I could be organized enough to have a list. Mine are all just ideas in my head and I keep flitting from one to another. It is always so much more interesting to start a new project than to finish the not so interesting aspect of a UFO.