October 2007 Challenge: It's a Guy Thing! (Page 1)

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Barb Vlack
Turbines

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© Danka Kruszewska
Find Your Own Way...

Audrey Smith 2007
Brick Pathway

St. Charles, Illinois USA

Designed for my son, who has a passion about airplanes.

clubEQ challenge, October, 2007: A Guy Thing

St. Charles, Illinois USA

 

St. Charles, Illinois USA

My husband is an electrical engineer. This quilt honors his passion for all things electric and the casual attire that was his working "uniform" for 28 years.

clubEQ challenge, October, 2007: A Guy Thing

St. Charles, Illinois USA

EQ-Challenge October 2007:

"For my Nephew Tom"

Riegelsberg, Germany

 

I used the Symetry tool on Tam's Patch, from Blockbase

 

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Audrey Smith 2007
Around the Graden

Barbara Gilstad
Fleeting Cactus Flower

Carien Verbiest
Nordic Walking

Carien Verbiest
Sampler by Hand

A standard Log Cabin Block with a Manly colour scheme

 

EQ Challenge Oct 2007

My husband loves to observe our luscious cactus flowers bloom, so I thought I'd capture one of our fleeting flowers for posterity in a wall hanging I am making and hand quilting especially for him.

 

 

Beside quilting by scraps I like to do to make samplers by cross-stitch.

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

 

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Daphne Stewart
Dale's Dream

Janet Bangs
Going around in circles

Janet Bangs
Ships that pass in the night

JoAnn Korzenko
Luke's Birthday

Oct '07 challenge: for the guys

I lost count of the number of cruises my brother Dale and his wife Ora took and I don't remember how many countries they visited. They loved the whole traveling process and made friends everywhere they went. When Dale lost his hair in chemotherapy, he wore a hat studded with pins from their travels -- a heavy dude! He'd be known shipwide as 'the man with the hat'.

I don't know any man who doesn't like a trip around the world quilt and I think Dale would have loved this one.

Sunnyside, Washington

Guildford, England

The dark colours make this very masculine looking. It would look very different in bright 30's prints.

 

Guildford, England

Although this is quite dark and somber, it would make a good quilt for a male toddler. A brigher version could be make with a light daytime sky and maybe a beach hut instead of the lighthouse.

 

 

 

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Jo Moury
For Our Coach

Jane Turgeon
Cool Blue Carpenter

Jane Turgeon
Christmas Carpenter

Judith Best
Riding the Rails

This probably isn't the typical Quilt one would thihk of to be under a "Guy's Quilt" catagory. But last week I was asked to design a quilt for a friend's granddaughter's soccer coach. Ty has recently been diagnosed with advanced colon cancer and the little girls on his team wanted to give him a comfort quilt in the team colors to take to chemo-therapy.
Can you identify all the tricks Penny, Dean and crew gave me to make the design easier???
The Variable star pictures in this quilt are simply "Place holders" as I imported the pictures from some web surfin', the Framed emply squares will hold messages from the girls and the message block in the center are both products of Serendipity Tools; and of course, a selection from Auto Borders gave everything a wonderful frame.

There will be another quilt for the challenge that will be on a much lighter note.

Haymarket, VA

 

 

Our minister is a carpenter and enjoys making gifts from wood, especially for Christmas.

 

In the center of the quilt is Railroad Crossing blocks surrounded by a railroad track with train engines running on the rails.

Ontario, Canada

 

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Judith Best
Start your engine

Kari Schell
Football Fantansy

Mary Seay
Quilt Club Challenge

Patti Anderson
It's Not Ping Pong!

What little boy or big boy doesn't like a race car.

Ontario, Canada

 

Brooklyn Park, MN 55443

 

Having been in the service, I thought this would be a design I'd make for a veteran.

Pasco, Washington

 

Spencer, West Virginia

My brother-in-law is a professional TABLE TENNIS player. If you dare call it ping pong he will let you know that's not what it's called!

The paddles and ping pong balls are made up of simple snowball blocks. I rotated some of the blocks to make it look like the ball is bouncing from border to border. I am providing two variations of this quilt -- both are lap size quilts, but one has fewer ball blocks.

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Patti Anderson
It's Not Ping Pong! (var. 2)

Rory Kirby
So much for Man's Best Friend!

Terri Nice
Tools of the Trade

Ursula Barkhau
Is a Guy Thing -Geckos

 

 

This cartoon was drawn as a block, starting off by drawing the BBQ, then adding Sammy the Spastic Wonder Dog, (a block selected by Searching 'Dog') by resizing>copy> paste. I drew the unfortunate owner, with a baloon to add text into. I colored a Block for background. In a custom Quilt I put the colored block as background on Layer 1 and the cartoon block on layer 2, then added and coloured the text.

Victoria, BC

Keymar, MD

The two blocks in this quilt are original drawings. I used greys, blacks and creams to give this quilt a steely masculine look.

Due to the complexity of the drawings the Crescent Wrench and Nuts blocks should be applique. The balance of the quilt can be pieced.

 

I used a Horizontal Quilt Layout.
And a Paper Piecing Pattern with
Easy Draw

Greeting Ulla

 

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Ursula Barkhau
Is a Guy Thing -Geckos

Angie Padilla
Love Snakes

Angie Padilla
Take to the Slopes!

Ann I. Czompo
Can't See the Forest For the Trees (48 x 66)

 

 

Be careful with those stereotypes!

When my nine year-old granddaughter, Alexia, finished her first quilt, her five year-old brother, Julian, demanded we make him one, too. In my mind, I started to envision a bright quilt with airplanes, trucks, cars... "boy things." However, when we asked Julian what he would like in his quilt, he responded without hesitation: "hearts, stars, and snakes." So this is what we came up with.

Alexia is currently working on this quilt. It is a rag quilt, which she expects to complete soon for her brother's birthday.

 

I often enjoy playing around with geometrical shapes in an appliqué design. The "slopes" were drawn in EasyDraw, and the skier in PatchDraw. Then just added a Tile border, with the 4 snowflake blocks from the EQ6 Contemporary Pieced Library.

 

My son hiked the entire 2175-mile Applachian Trail in 2003. His home reflects his interest in the environment, nature, etc., and this quilt would lbe very appropriate as a wall hanging.

Used Layout -- Irregular Grid 16 -- as a framework into which I placed blocks from the block library.

 

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Adri van der Zel
Boys & their toys © 2007

Berit Pramm
On the Farm

Berit Pramm
Out in Space

Charlotte Kleiner
Road Signs

Quilt has allot of high detail aplique an embroidery.

 

My husband is a farmer. He do love his
John Deer and all the machine.
I want to made this design to him.

Club EQ Challenge October 2007

Norway

 

My husband are very interested in all
out in Space. Alle he could see, but also
the invisible. I had to make this for him.

Club EQ Challenge October 2007

Norway

 

I started this back in the February 2005 clubEQ challenge - "Games People Play" but didn't get it finished for that one. I now have a 3 year old Great Nephew who just loves cars & trucks. This "guy thing" is designed with him in mind.

Winnipeg, MB Canada