Hello Friends,

I am home from my wonderful trip to Idaho with Marty.  At 2,000 feet in Sand Point-  fall is moving into that area and it is beautiful.  I love the soft color change of this maple planted in her yard.   There are lots more pines there too I did a lot of walking and just soaking you the differences in the landscape.   We got together with Dawn and compared our challenge results the day after we arrived.  Then  we made a  new challenge for next year and then  went shopping.  We all purchased three fabrics for the new  projects.  Went home and split the materials  and passed half yard pieces onto each other.   I will admit that I am anxious to start.    By the time we had done that cut up we were so excited we spent the afternoon doing little challenges that we just fused and  pinned up.    It was great fun to watch the other two gals work .   I sure enjoyed myself.    Marty also volunteers for her local library book sale.  We went a prepared for that event and picked up books from the free pile.  After getting her son to use his drill press to make wholes in the old books we added fixtures and created two lamps from the old volumes.  It was great fun.  The other big event of my visit was the day we spent driving along the west side of the lake.  It is all National Forest Land and so the road was primitive.  At 20 MPH it took a while to drive 120 mile loop.  It was glorious though and we had fun.  There was almost no traffic- we saw 8 All Tirane Vichials and 4 trucks coming in the opposite direction and only one truck passed us going our way.  Unfortunately my camera battery died so I did not take any images to share- but I have a lot of grand ones in my visual memory.

 

Progress Report  Because I did not work  in my studio this week I will just share the projects of  Dawn and Marty.    To refresh the memory the “rules” were: 1) Make three quilts using the fabric of all  three participants  had selected based on the color choices we made before we separated.   Those were: Dawn- Crimson: Marty- Deep Turquoise: Carol Blue Green  2)   The participants sent their fabric with some pieces pinned on the surface and they had to be used in these areas  3) Edge’s had to be irregular  4) extra fabric could be used. I was the only one with completed works- but then again I am the over achiever at most things.

   My Layout /Color Challenge:   This is my challenge and my lay out.  I did the exercise twice as I had the fabric and this one is the strongest of the two.

Dawn used lots of additional colors and expanded the surface a lot.  I like how Marty built up the Crimson square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marty’s Layout /Color Challenge I found Marty’s Crimson to be the one I liked the best of all three.  She used it as the base fabric.  I must have flipped the fabric location when I started this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like how Marty used the turquoise  from both Dawn’s collection and mine in here work here. Dawn again added more fabric and  she also did a little discharge on the surface of the Crimson.  She really pushed the envelope and I hope I can do that this year a bit more.

 

  DAWN’S Layout/ Color ?Challenge  This is Dawn’s color choice and layout.  This is the piece that I had fun with as I added the frapping to it and made it a lot larger than the others.

I really like Marty’s use of black here.   As the next image shows Marty also used Dawn’s Crimson to enhance and frame one of her wonderful hand dyed and stitched works.  Her stitches are so very small.

Dawn again added lots of additional color to her top.

Again she did a little discharging to lighten up  her back ground fabric.   It sure was a fun challenge and the next one will be the same.

I have two more shots of Marty’s work.  She did this wonderful Nebula quilt  that I think is wonderful.   The detail shows the small stitches she uses.

I like her use of beads too.   She dose splendid work.  Then we have the last shot as one morning I got up to a strange sound and when I looked out my bedroom window I saw  three Moose.    The calf trimmed the willow and was only about 20 feet from the house.  This is the only shot that is in clear focus .  The Cow never came far enough out of the woods to allow for any picture to show anything except a brown blob.  The Bull had a small rack  and several locals said that they had never even seen a Bull.   He too was too timid to allow for any photo to look like much.

I hope you are all enjoying fall.

 

Keep Creating       Carol