June 2007 Challenge: Inspired Color Scheme! (Page 2)

Quilt 33

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Quilt 36

Judy Zaspel
Monarchs in my Garden

Kay Ahr
The Drive-In #1 - Original Design

Kay Ahr
The Drive-In #2 - Original Design

Leanne Davis
The colours of spring

This quilt is based on a picture I took in my garden last June. The picture is of a monarch butterfly sipping nectar out of a yellow and purple iris in my garden. I imported the picture into the sketchbook for all to see.
I live in NW Wisconsin in the beautiful country on 40 acres. We sometimes call if Monarch Acres, as we have lots of milkweed, so we have lots of butterflies.
Enjoy!

Wisconsin

Paradise Park has a drive-in theatre at the south end. Off on the horizon is a white highrise casino/resort with orange windows. The drive-in parking level is higher than the pathway in the park, so it looks like there are trees growing inbetween the four movie screens. How about a quilt with four flowers in the corners for the movie screens, some trees in the middle, and a border with white and pale orange. Can't forget the constantly blue sky.

Sparks, Nevada

Paradise Park has a drive-in theatre at the south end. Off on the horizon is a white highrise casino/resort with orange windows. The drive-in parking level is higher than the pathway in the park, so it looks like there are trees growing inbetween the four movie screens. How about a quilt with four flowers in the corners for the movie screens, some trees in the middle, and a border with white and pale orange. Can't forget the constantly blue sky.

Sparks, Nevada

The colours in this quilt are based on a photo I took at the Hobart Botanic Gardens last year - beds of purple tulips surrounded by yellow pansies.

Adelaide, South Australia

Quilt 37

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Quilt 40

Leanne Davis
Fafa away

Lisa M. Dunz
Siamese Cat

Lisa M. Dunz
Tail Chaser

Lisa Ruch
Watermelon Pickles

The colours in this quilt are taken from a photo of the Pacific Ocean taken when I was sitting at a beach side bar (sipping a drink out of a coconut with hibiscus flowers for decoration) on Fafa Island (Tonga) looking out to the clear blue/turquoise water of the Pacific Ocean.

Adelaide, South Australia

I used a photo of my blue point Siamese for the colors in this quilt. He was lying in front of the window in my studio and the bright sun made his eyes look almost teal.

Shawnee, KS

This quilt was inspired by a photo of my Siamese cat chasing his tail when a small green caterpiller got on it.

Shawnee, KS

Named after the watermelon colors on the cover photo for the June 2007 Coldwater Creek mail order catalog.

Champaign, IL

Quilt 41

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Quilt 44

Lisa Ruch
Watermelon Stars

Mary Ann Altendorf
Rose Perfection

Mary Seay

Pines
The Black Cat 2

Named after the colors in the cover photograph of the June 2007 Coldwater Creek mail order catalog

Champaign, IL.

This is my original design using a photo of a climbing rose in my yard that was taken a week ago.

Hillsboro, OR

This is my first attempt at using the custom layout in EQ6. The center block started as a class in QU but then I decided to make a lap quilt rather than a wall hanging.

This was designed based on a photograph of the Sign of "The Black Cat," Hyannis, MA.

Northern Virginia

Quilt 45

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Quilt 48

Pines
The Black Cat 1

Priscilla Newberger
Kimono hexagons

Priscilla Newberger
Storm on the Oregon Coast

Ruth Rocker
Black Dahlia

This was designed based on a photograph of the Sign of "The Black Cat,"

Hyannis, MA.

The colors are from a picture of a woman in a wonderful kimono found in a book about the National Museum in Tokyo. Priscilla Newberger

Corvallis, OR

A Storm at Sea quilt with colors taken from a photograph of the Oregon coast in the late afternoon. The light and middle grays and blues are the colors of the sky and water, the black and dark gray are found in the large basalt rocks along the coast and in the cliffs and the pale colors are the colors of the sand and tide pools. I will probably use an assortment of batiks and hand dyed fabric when I make this quilt. It is the first one that I have sent to a challenge that I really intend to make. (We know about good intentions however.)

Corvallis, OR

Patti did a lesson on her site on how to draw the giant dahlia block. I had started this earlier and never completed it. When I started looking for inspiration for this challenege I remembered a vase I bought several years ago for the colors and remembered about this block. Here it is all done. Thanks, Patti, for the lesson!!

Beavercreek, OH

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Quilt 52

Sharon Lewis
BIRD OF PARADISE #1

Sharon Lewis
BIRD OF PARADISE #2

Ulla B

V McKenna
Blossom

The challenge was simple in that it asked for color. My problem was in finding a photograph that had lots of colors to work with. Then, the July issue of National Geographic arrived. On Pages 82 thru 101 were photos of the most amazingly colored birds of paradise. Both of my quilts are colored based on the photos of the Wilson's bird of paradise shown on page 98. These birds are gorgeous!

Canoga Park, CA

The challenge was simple in that it asked for color. My problem was in finding a photograph that had lots of colors to work with. Then, the July issue of National Geographic arrived. On Pages 82 thru 101 were photos of the most amazingly colored birds of paradise. Both of my quilts are colored based on the photos of the Wilson's bird of paradise shown on page 98. These birds are gorgeous!

Canoga Park, CA

 

This quilt is based on a photo that I took of an almond blossom. I just a log cabin block and added the triangles. This is only the fourth quilt that I've designed - so enjoy.

Quilt 53

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Quilt 56

Terri Nice
Island Spice

Forest Jane
Colors of Daffodils

Forest Jane
Colors of Daffodils 2

Rhonda Dayton
Pantry-shelf Pieces

This design was inspired by a favorite print known as The Green Parrot Bar at Night by Dwight Kalb. The print is hanging in my sewing room and brings back all the wonderful memories of spending time in the Florida Keys.

Keymar, MD

 

The pictures I used for inspiration were taken in my front yard this spring. This design I might do for a wallhanging someday, but I'd probably make the grass a little wilder!

Memphis, TN

I know we didn't have to use the subject of our photos as the quilt, but somehow, after I'd drawn this daffodil block, it begged to be used. A slightly more traditional layout, rotated and flipped to make it look like more than one block. I'd paper piece the flowers and string piece the greenery.

Memphis, TN

Colors are based on some dishes called Pantry-shelf from the late 30's. Broken Dishes seem right for this quilt, since I have never seen this pattern of dishes in person, maybe they are all now in pieces.

Albany, NY

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Quilt 60

Rhonda Dayton
Pantry-Shelf Broken?

Carol E. Skrube
Butterflies & Blossoms

Donna Fisher
Bird of Paradise Picture Colors

Gina A
Pinwheels

Colors are based on some dishes called Pantry-shelf from the late 30's. Broken Dishes seem right for this quilt, since I have never seen this pattern of dishes in person, maybe they are all broken.

Albany, NY

I used the colors from a
Franz Porcelain spoon I received as a gift.
It has a daffodil with a butterfly at the top,
so I used a butterfly block and one called
daffodil ring.

Sheboygan, Wi.

Colors taken from a Bird of Paradise flower picture from Hawaii.

Tallahassee, FL

I love fall, so I pulled out some older magazines from the fall and got inspired by the colors.

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Quilt 64

Gina A
Bricks and Mortar

Jo Moury
Strawberry Wreaths

Jo Moury
Strawberry Dreamin'

Lorraine Dickinson
Color Medallion

Same colors, different design. I'm going to make this one!!!

My color inspiration for these quilts was a still life of strawberries sitting in blue spongeware bowl. I pulled the wreath from the classic applique library and modified a quilting stencil for the corner applique motifs.

Haymarket, VA

My color inspiration was the same for both of these quilts. In case you haven't guessed... strawberries are my favorite summer treat! I can see making one of these table toppers "one of these days"

Haymarket, VA

I made a block in EQ5 then used it as a quilt layout. I then opened it in EQ6. I used a Dover clipart- fan for the color inspiration.

Mystic IA