CW challenge for anyone. Guide on 1st post

[Renata L.]

Robyn, yoku dekimashita!

[Maureen A.]

Robyn your quilt is terrific. Well thought out and exercised. Great for the first one to be shown on the Forum.

[Nancy R.]

That's wonderful, Robyn! Mine doesn't show much creativity, but it will be a nice present for my sister for Christmas:

This is a picture of my mom and her sister. My mom is the one on the right. The tatting around the picture is some that I found in her stuff that she was in the process of stitching around a handkerchief some decades ago. The background is one of those linens that they used to put on the back of a chair that I believe was embroidered and crocheted by her.

[Nancy R.]

OK-I started this challenge after I came back from my trip with the family. While there were many things that I could have done I wanted to be realistic in what I COULD GET done. There were many flowering plants that drew hummingbirds and butterflies(and let me tell you, when the butterflies flew close to your face--they were huge!). It was a windy day which turned out to be good for getting the picture because the butterfly had to keep opening its wings to stay where it was. So, here is the picture I took and used as inspiration for my project:

AND, here is my project:

[Nancy R.]

Well done Robyn and Nancy! I love old linens with their fine needlework.

[Nancy R.]

Very beautiful, Ritzy!

[Susan B.]

wow, wow and Wow! Beautiful work by the 3 so far. Ritzy, what is that pebble fabric? Manufacturer?

[Susan B.]

I just can't meet a deadline. Thread is on order for quilting and I'm trying to figure out how to stay within the 8.5 by 11 size limitation. Maybe I won't :roll:

Obviously, influenced by Kaleidoscope Kreations show #..., I used one of my "zentangles", scanned, printed on Jacquard cotton, probably from Dharma Trading, then colored with Derwent Inktense pencils, used my color wheel to help choose colors.

I figured out afterward, that if my Zentangle has smooth edges, I'll get completed patterns around the edges.

This is awesome fun.

[wendy w.]

Susan that's amazing. Is it the zentangle you showed us before. Are they intense inks? And what's the link with yesterday or am I being dumb

Robyn yours is great. Which Bernina did you get

Nancy your's is gorgeous and a real yesterday flavour. Lovely gift.

And Ritzy it's stunning, well done you've done it so well. I'm going to have a good look at them all in a bit and work out your techniques

This has been so worth the wait :P

[wendy w.]

And now mine ...

Yesterday (37 years ago) my mum was alive. She loved sweat peas and grew fabulous show ones so this quilt is for her



The back is Kaffe Fasset fabric in honour of my mother in law who had Multiple Sclerosis. I found out through Philip Jacobs one of KAffe Fassett Collective, that Kaffe wrote to her when she was making one of his needlepoint kits. I was able to thank him at FOQ in Birmingham. Nice man



I've learn't I'm not keen on the effect of thread painting but it was fun trying and that I need to be tidier on the back :lol:

[Susan B.]

Wendy,
"Yesterday, I tried a new technique, tipped off by TQS". Or, wow about "Yesterday I learned, today I practiced." Crikey.

I know it's a stretch. I'm not very creative. I pondered portraits, couldn't come up with a way that made sense to me. Like Ritzy, I needed something I could almost get done on time, or sort of.

It's not the same tangle that is on FB. I found out, with KK3 software, to save every image if I ever want to see it again. When the image is re-opened in KK#, it changes immediately, so printing has to be done in another program, unless, of course, we print during the design process. I use Microsoft Office Picture Manager a lot.

Yours, as always, has the colors of dreams. Beautifully done!

[wendy w.]

Thanks

Of course yours is yesterday said I was being dumb :roll:

[Lois B.]

Nancy, I love, love, love that you combined all the very special things your mother made in such a wonderful gift for your sister. How special it must have been to handle and touch her work while you added your own. I think it's beyond special.

Ritzy, Your butterfly is wonderful. I love that the pebbles repeated part of the actual background in the photo.

Sue, I love all the techniques you combined in your piece. It's just beautiful. I will join you in not being quite finished, but far enough along to post.

Wendy, Your Sweet Pea is gorgeous. I love it. How special that you got to meet Kaffe at FoQ. Thanks for pushing us to do this.

My CW Challenge quilt is called "Yesterday a Flower Bloomed". Actually this one bloomed in my garden last summer. I drew it from a photo and colored it with Tuseniko Pens and then add just a little free motion embroidery.



Wendy, In your honor, I placed my little quilt up-side-down and since I don't know how to fix it, it will just have to stay that way. The quilt is still awaiting it's binding. I have not yet found cream colored rattail chord. I may have to look online.

[Susan B.]

PS, yes, I used Derwent Inktense Pencils with Liquitex Fabric Medium.

[wendy w.]

Wow Lois the drawing and quilting are brilliant, I love that it looks like petals, you are clever