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Blogger’s Quilt Festival–Spring 2013–Entry 2

Posted by PersimonDreams on May 17, 2013 in art quilt, Featured, Project QUILTING, quilt gallery | 7 comments

Happy May 17th everyone again! Today is the start of one of my favorite two times of the year – the Spring Edition of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival over at AmysCreativeSide!

If you’ve never been at my blog before – Welcome! and for those who have – Welcome Back!

I had a hard time deciding which ‘second’ quilt I wanted to enter into the Blogger’s Quilt Festival I asked for help – and it seems like most love them all equally…so I’m going with my gut keeping in mind that there will be another Blogger’s Quilt Festival this fall!

I have decided to enter my quilt

“Local Foods Grow Local Communities’ into the art quilt category.

I created this piece based on the Project QUILTING Challenge ‘Print Publications’

Basically – we were challenge to grab a print publication, turn to page 28 and be inspired by what we saw. I choose a publication called ‘Grow’ and when turned to page 28 it happened to be the reason I had that publication in my possession. A friend had brought it by because my family’s apple orchard was mentioned in an article. When I turned to page 28…it was the first page of the article we were featured in. It was destiny…time to be inspired!

When I looked at my page 28 I knew I had an easy page for inspiration. BUT the challenge I made for myself was that I wanted to be ‘inspired’ by the page and not just replicate the page.

The Locavore School is about bringing local foods into the school lunches. My orchard has been providing apples to multiple school districts in the area for many years. I finally knew what I wanted to do!

Upper left: First – I needed a background. Nothing in my stash was what I was looking for so I decided to paint my own. I used a neutral piece of Tula Pink’s ‘Prince Charming’ print and I did a watered down acrylic painting on it. It’s watered down enough so you can still see the images of the original print if you look closely.

Upper Middle: I needed to draw a tree…that was my plan – I wanted to show a tree in it’s entirety – including the roots. So I sketched it out and then traced the sections onto some iron on fusible.

Upper Right: I chose to do the roots mostly with an apple printed fabric. I did mix in other foods such as eggs, peas, corn, and carrots into the roots as well but since we’re an apple orchard I figured that would be a good focus.

Lower Left: I knew I wanted my ‘tree’ to be made of kids. Here I need to let you know that we only have one week to complete a Project QUILTING Challenge. If you nee a certain fabric you need to buy it right away in the week. It took me a few days to come up with my concept and my time was running low. I searched my stash for all the ‘people’ prints I could find, Diane pulled al the ‘people’ from her stash too. It wasn’t what I was envisioning. At this point it was Wednesday and on Wednesday my baby Pip goes to a sitter who also happens to sew. I was explaining my concept to her and asked her if she happened to have any ‘kid’ prints. And what you see in the trees is what she had! She was kind enough to donate a fat quarter of it to my project and it was seriously the PERFECT PIECE! I used kid print for the tree top and then I did a scrappy collection of different prints for the trunk so you can still distinguish between the two.

Lower Middle: I free motion quilted along the roots and around the tree. With the painted fabric it created sort of a ‘puffy’ effect.

Lower RIght: To finish it off I embellished with some Angellina fibers in the roots and the sky. I added a ‘lip’ of pink strawberry printed fabric on the edge and with the binding. I made it too big…so I tacked it back in a few different places around the corner. It’s hard to see in the picture but it created this really awesome wavy effect to the border of the quilt. I will definitely be using this technique again!

Here’s the finished quilt with the inspiration page next to it! I hope you enjoyed reading about my process and inspiration for my piece ‘Local Foods Grow Strong Communities.’

‘The festival starts today, and runs through May 31st. It’s open to anyone who wants to enter, and there will be lots of great prizes. Be sure to check it out NOW! Get your post written and show off your quilt or quilts! You can enter two this year!

Once you’ve had a chance to visit as many of the quilts, as possible you may nominate your very favorite, for a Viewer’s Choice Award! To nominate complete the form at the bottom of the THIS POST with the link to the post and your email address. Nominations without a valid email will be eliminated, and multiple nominations with the same email will be eliminated. One entry per email address please.

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Project QUILTING–Off Season Challenge: What’s Your Sign Entries

Posted by PersimonDreams on May 8, 2013 in Featured, off season, Project QUILTING | 0 comments

I’ve been meaning to post closer looks at the six fabulous quilts created for the Off Season Project QUILTING challenge: What’s Your Sign? for a few days now. Well – better late than never!

Let’s see what everyone came up with!

1. PQ Off-season Challenge, 2. Aslan of Narnia, My Favorite Leo, 3. Fall Grapes, 4. 284343_10200236009160630_1002603259_n, 5. Project Quilting- What is your sign?, 6. Project QUILTING Off Season Challenge – What’s Your Sign?

Quilter: SweetBoaterChick

Sign: Pisces

Pyranha Quilt

I made this quilt based on the Pyranha Kayak logo. Being a Pisces I love the water and feel that freedom whenever in my little red boat. I go with the flow for the most part, but have been know to fight the current when I need to.
I printed the logo onto a light blue batik using my printer. Then framed the print with bright batiks. I quilted it by stitching in the ditch. I even hand stitched the binding on (gasp!).
I made my little Pyranha Quilt in Lanoka Harbor, NJ. It measures 14″ x 14″.

sweetboaterchick.blogspot.com/2013/05/project-quilting-of…

Quilter: Isabella’s Whimsy

Sign: Leo

Aslan of Narnia, My Favorite Leo

What’s My Sign? Leo! This wall hanging has been through quite a bit before finishing up right here. You can read about it on my blog if you like: isabellaswhimsy.wordpress.com/blog/
I thought I would attach the pieces of the mane together by overlapping the edges and sewing with decorative machine stitching…not the best idea for durability, but a learning experience. I used some hand quilting on the face, then machine quilted around each section of the mane and once around the head. I attached fast triangles on the back for hanging.

If I make Aslan again, and I will, I will use different techniques.
Even though I tore out many stitches, I am glad I went through the process and learned all kinds of surprises on the way. )

Size: about 21″ square
Location: College Station, TX

Quilter: tjtruesdale

Sign: Libra

Fall Grapes

Quilter: Cotton N Lace

Sign: Virgo

YOUR SIGN
Virgo Mermaid
size 10 1/2″x20 1/2″
Made in South Africa
By Amanda Reid

Altho Virgo is an earthy maiden I saw some ‘Virgo Mermaids’ and I am an ‘earthy’ person but also a ‘water baby’!..So I like the idea to be a bit ‘whimsical’..hence the ‘Mer-Maiden’!

Alot of experimenting went on here…thread painting….body and hair…metallic threads(hair) and invisible thread(sky and tail..sea)…paper piecing on the tail and inkjet printing for body…alto was a bit dull so coloured in with marker pens…the sky is some material I experimented with marble technique..she also has a ‘tattoo’ of the Virgo sign stitched on her arm….a lot of left over fabric from the other projects were used here.

This was a fun quilt to try certain techniques…especially since I am quite nervous for upcoming IQCAfrica Challenge I have entered!!

Quilter: KrisTMJ

Sign: Cancer

Project Quilting – What is your sign?

Off season challenge for Project Quilting at Persimon Dreams.
My sign: Cancer
Size: 16 x 16 approx
I chose a celestial interpretation of the sign by doing the constellation in a prism quilt.
blogged: www.sewsunshine.blogspot.com
Made in Nebraska
The pattern is a variation of Anna Maria Horner’s Patchwork Prism only mini!

Quilter: PersimonDreams

Sign: Aries

Aries Bag

I created a quilted bag for the Project QUILTING Off Season Challenge – What’s Your Sign?
www.persimondreams.com/2013/04/project-quiltingoff-season…
I just learned how to make these fabulous pleated bags (super easy btw) and love how they look.

For this challenge I Took a bold spring print – since aries is a spring sign and we tend to be straigt forward and to the point – just like this big floral print from Laura Gunn. Then I mixed in a fun Zebra print for the middle. I love how the two prints mixed!

Next, I played with some Kirigami folding like I did for the ‘My Favorite Color’ Challenge I fold papers in three ways – snowflake, star, and spider and then drew the sign of the Aries onto the paper before I cut them out. I traced the pattern onto fuxible and put the tree flowers onto the zebra print. When I cut out the pattern I left one petal full to symbolize the portion of the zodiac that aries is. Then – I fused them onto the bag.

The insides of the flowers were hearts so I also fused a few of these to the lower portion of the bag just to add a bit extra.

The bag is very lightly quilted – just two lines to keep the thin batting in place. I didn’t want to take away from the natural shape the pleat adds by doing too much quilting.

The bag is lined with an original spoonflower fabric that I made from a picture of a outerspace quilt.

Finally I embellished both sides of the bag with two fun circular-esque black and white striped beads.

Very happy with how this turned out!

There is an off season challenge for may already up – Pantone! I hope you enjoy these little challenges of mine!

made by Kim Lapacek
Poynette WI

Project QUILTING–Off Season Challenge–Pantone

Posted by PersimonDreams on May 1, 2013 in Featured, off season, Project QUILTING, quilt challenge | 0 comments

Six amazing quilts were created for the April Off Season Challenge. (I’ll post closer looks at all the quilts later this week…lots happening today. Go to the flickr group now if you can’t wait to see them!) Let’s see if even more quilts will be made with the May Off Season Challenge.

The Challenge

It’s FINALLY starting to feel like spring around here so let’s be inspired by the 2013 Spring Pantone Color Pallet to make our May Quilt. Choose at least three of the colors below to create your next quilt. You can use as many of the colors you see below as you want but the only additional colors you can add are white, black and/or grey.

THE RULES:

Have FUN! These off season challenges aren’t about winning a prize – they’re about being inspired to create something you may never have created without the inspiration.
Please remember that these projects need to be created during the time frame of the challenge to qualify for the challenge.
Project can be a quilt, a garment, a bag, or any other item that is created using patchwork, appliqué or other traditional quilting techniques.
If you need advice/tips/help (or you just want to give us all a sneak peak) with your project as you work on it feel free to post pictures to the flickr group: Project QUILTING WIP: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1430386@N24/
POST your entries with a description of your creative process, including where you are (ie, I create in Madison, WI) and the size of your project by Friday, May 31st, 2013, at noon, CDT, to this flickr group – http://www.flickr.com/groups/1401824@N21/ OR email a picture/description of your completed project to {lapaceksorchard at gmail dot com} with PROJECT QUILTING in the subject line and I’ll post your piece for you. (1 month to finish the challenge)
If you do want people to truly critique (the good and the bad) your project please post it to the Flickr Group: Project QUILTING – Critiques

The Prizes

What!? The Prizes? I thought this was an off season challenge just for fun? Well – it is. BUT one of my fabulous sponsors Marcia of Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting has decided to spice up this months challenge. She’s giving you a $20.00 Gift Certificate good towards for Extra Wide Fabric and Shipping! Anyone who finishes their off-season challenge quilt by the end of May will get entered into a drawing to be randomly chosen for this great prize.

Good luck! Have fun! And don’t forget…

It’s Time to Think Outside the Square!

Project QUILTING Fat Quarter Shop BONUS Challenge Progress

Posted by PersimonDreams on Apr 10, 2013 in fatquartershop, Featured, off season, Project QUILTING, quilt challenge, wip | 2 comments

In the back of my mind I’ve been contemplating what I wanted to do for the Fat Quarter Shop BONUS Bundle Challenge – Tradition Times Three. I’ve had many ideas go through my mind – one quilt incorporated different sized hexagon flowers with a free form quilting background. Another quilt I was going to weave some of the blocks (which I do think I’ll still do eventually) and then I went back to the hexagon quilt idea….

And then, four days ago I saw this quilt on Pat Sloan’s Facebook Page:

“Composition II” by Shoko Sakai

I was instantly inspired! I knew I ad to do something like this for my challenge – I would incorporate squares into making my design. What is going on with me and all that tiny piecing lately?

First I needed to figure out what shape I wanted to do.

Not a star since it had already been done – and seriously – look at how well it had been done. No need to compete with that.

Next, since the Fat Quarter Shop fabric bundle is pretty nautical I thought sailboat quilt…which would be cute…but not me. In my heart I knew I needed to go with tree. So much of my world right now revolves around tree I might as well keep with it and be inspired by that that surrounds me.

First I sketched the outline of the tree on graph paper and then added the squares to see how it would work. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be awesome and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a lot of work. I’ll be making courthouse log cabin blocks at 3”, 6” and 9”. I’m not sure if the background will be all squares but there will be at least a few in there. Since the main colors of our bundle are blue, red, and a creams here is my color plan.

I used copper and bronze paintstiks to make the red fabrics more of a brown tone for the tree. They are currently drying in my sewing studio and will hopefully be dry and ready to go by tomorrow. I’m using creams/white for the ground and the blues in the sky. To some of the creams and blues I rubbed some silver onto them just to have a decent blend of metallic glimmer in the background too. I can’t wait to see how this all actually turns out! It’s amazing in my mind…but you never know!

Wish me luck!

Keep an eye on the special Flickr Group to watch for projects as they come in. There’s already one there!

Public Vote WINNER for Project QUILTING, Season 4, Challenge 6–Hooray for Spring!

Posted by PersimonDreams on Apr 1, 2013 in Project QUILTING, season 4 | 3 comments

I am really going to try to limit to one blog post a day from now on…but today I had two really important things to share – sorry! So…without further adieu…let’s see who won the Public Vote for the Hooray for Spring Project QUILTING Challenge.

Almost 700 votes were cast! Amazing!

In 1st place