Coastal Quilters challenge
Inspired by my mini-group’s 5 x 5 challenge, which I blogged about here and in the photo above (right click to see it larger), my local quilt guild chapter decided to do a small art quilt challenge which will be displayed at Maine Quilts at the end of July! WOWIE zowie! To keep a little bit of the surprise, I won’t share Dwight P’s photo (used with his permission) on which the quilts were based–tho I will say it was of ropes and buoys.
I will share some of the results….for a group that hasn’t ventured much into art quilting for many of them, I thought this was 100 percent awesome! And the left side of the table:
Jan P., married to the photographer, played with the photo in her computer software, then created the cloth! Everything you see in Jan’s photo began as white.
Barb Melchiskey is an expert applique-er , and it appears she has a good eye for abstracting elements, too!
Mathea Daunheimer, if you can believe it, has only been quilting about two years (and already has a quilt juried in to the Tactile Architecture exhibit in Houston… YEAH MATHEA!), but has clearly done lots of things artistic. She used Tsukinenko inks to draw/paint her piece:
I’ll share my two pieces…two colorways of the sames cropped view of the photo with you in a later post, including HOW I did the “drawing.” Wish I had taken more close ups! Hope you can come to Augusta at the end of July for our show. Here’s a link to the Pine Tree Quilt Guild / Maine Quilts website.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
[…] so long ago I shared the results of the Coastal Quilters’ Art Quilt Challenge, to take Dwight Pitcairn’s photo of ropes and buoys and make a 10 by 10 inch art quilt. I […]