Chinese Whispers

[Nancy R.]

Renata - I agree with Rita. I feel like the point of this is to let the quilt inspire you in whatever way it does and we'll see how we move along and where we end up. This rather than trying to guess, based on our inspiration quilt, where we started. I really love what you did with the tulips and what your thought processes were.

Everyone's interpretations are so interesting and well-thought out! I'm really enjoying this exercise!

Nancy

[karen f.]

Well actually a quilt of lots of raspberries growing in a field with a blue sky and one tilted paper pieced block of berries set in at the lower corner. also some sort of black and white piecing accents. The only thing is I don't think I've ever really seen a field of raspberries so I don't know if it looks all lovely red like that or mostly green leaves!? :roll:

[Nancy R.]

As long as the raspberry field matches the one in your mind's eye, then it's real enough!! Sounds beautiful!!

Nancy

[Lois B.]

I have look at all the ideas and think it is so much fun to see the directions everyone took. I looked at Red Fury and decided to connect the dots in a sort of way. I connected them in the way the green made my eye move over the quilt. Wish I had had Rita's bamboo, but since I didn't I laid a piece of tracing paper on the computer and made a more organic abstract design. I think it is very interesting that I wasn't at all distracted by the title and so many of you were. It was as if I didn't care what it was called I just wanted to look at it. I was so inspired that I made it into a little 8"x10" quilt that is now ready to be bound. Here it is:



I think this was a great exercise. Anybody up for looking at #1000200?

[Nancy R.]

Wow, Lois! That is really cool! And you did it so quickly! Like you, I didn't have any trouble ignoring the name and just looking at the quilt.

I'll take a look at the next influence and see where it leads me.....

Nancy

[Lotti D.]

Beautiful quilt Lois

[Lotti D.]

Your little quilt is very cool Lois! Like you, I didn't even thought about the name or all the red fabric. Going to go check #1000200 and see what I come up with. :wink:

[Lotti D.]

I think this was a great exercise. Anybody up for looking at #1000200?

So, I checked #1000200 and is a partial close up photo of #1000201. Which one should we work with? The whole quilt or the close up section :?:

[wendy w.]

Lois I love your little quilt and the description of how your mind worked to come up with such a different quilt but I can follow your logic.

I must learn to free up my mind to think differently after seeing all your ideas. I did go through the field of tulip idea at one point as well

[Maureen A.]

Lois, I love your little quilt. It has been really interesting to read how different people's mind see the same thing
differently. Mind you life would be so boring if we all were the same.

Back to the drawing board (still there at the moment)

[Rita C.]

Great little quilt Lois. I see how you got there now. I had a look at quilt 1000200 and it is difficult to work with just a section but the whole quilt doesn't help much either. And I made the fatal mistake of reading the blurb about it. :roll: Very interesting. I am happy to work on just the section if everybody else is happy too.

[Rita C.]

Renata - I agree with Rita. I feel like the point of this is to let the quilt inspire you in whatever way it does and we'll see how we move along and where we end up. This rather than trying to guess, based on our inspiration quilt, where we started. I really love what you did with the tulips and what your thought processes were.

Everyone's interpretations are so interesting and well-thought out! I'm really enjoying this exercise!

Nancy

Nice observation Nancy, we are trying to see how we can go forward from a design, not backwards to the beginning, with this exercise. to see where it takes us (and to find out just how offbeat our minds can go :wink: :lol: )

[Rita C.]

Having looked at both 1000200 & the bigger quilt, that the section comes from, I have to admit that I am now influenced by the whole thing in creating my response to it, because quite frankly, the close-up seemed very limited in what it was saying. Having said that I am trying to send my brain back to the close-up for more work.

[Lois B.]

Hi Everybody, Thanks for the nice comments on my work. It was really fun. I did not stress over decisions, just did it. ....Not exactly usual for me. I picked #1000200 out of the blue and did not even know what it looked like when I posted the number. I was disappointed that it was just part of a whole and the colors did not seem to read well on my computer. I then looked at # 1000199 thinking whoever posted it would have shown the entire quilt first. I didn't look at #1000201. After your comments regarding that choice I got to thinking about how the actual photo might be choosen for the challenge. I doubt if they pick it out of a hat. Rosemary, how did you choose #1000100. Is there a better way to make these choices? I like these kinds of exercises for my quilting mind.

[Lois B.]

I just looked at #1000201 and like the closeup the colors did not read well on my computer and frankly that is a stumbling block for me. Perhaps that's part of what the exercise is all about... getting over stumbling blocks. But it wouldn't hurt to have a little bit of a discussion about how we might choose a challenge quilt.