December 2007 Challenge: Inspiration from Architecture! (Page 1)
Create a design inspired by something architectural. This could be a quilting design taken from the "gingerbread" from a Victorian house or an appliqué design taken from molding or a pieced design taken from a tile floor. Look at parquet designs for wood flooring, wallpaper, house plans, details on buildings, and so on. There are ideas all around us. Your design could be a building or it could be an embellishment or a landscape of rooftops.
- Barb Vlack
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Barb Vlack |
Barb Vlack |
Berit Pramm |
Barbara Gilstad |
St. Charles, IL, USA Designed for the December, 2007, clubEQ challenge: Inspirations from Architecture I've always loved the Avery Coonley Playhouse window, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It offers an inspiration for an irregular grid background for a free-style (Custom Set) quilt.
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St. Charles, IL USA Inspired by the beautiful Ardis Kranik Theatre of the Civic Opera House of Chicago, I named this piece after my favorite tenor aria, which means, "No one is sleeping." It's from Puccini's "Turandot." The Art Deco ornamentation in the theatre is painted in gold leaf and embellished with richly colored accents. There are columns of the vines and leaves everywhere.
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We have some decorations on our barn. Club EQ Challenge December 2007 |
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C.M.Verbiest |
C.M.Verbiest |
Carolyn Laukkonen |
Charlotte Kleiner |
When I am in the old dutch town Gouda I visit
the St
Jans church for the beautiful windows. For Christmas I have made three gotic church windows. C.M.Verbiest |
C.M.Verbiest |
Designed for EQ Challenge - Architecture Inspired
- by Carolyn Laukkonen, I have made a couple of quilted wallhangings (and have
one more in progress) from the book Enchanted Views |
Winnipeg, MB Canada This block was inspired by the top of the Chrysler building in New York City. |
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Charlotte Kleiner |
Cheryl Brown |
Claudia Chang |
Claudia Chang |
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Charlotte Kleiner This block was inspired by the top of the Chrysler building in New York City. |
To get to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you drive through wonderful tunnels or "Tubes". Then the city opens out before you with a magnificant view of the Point where three rivers meet. Cheryl Brown |
Claudia Chang From Taiwan |
Claudia Chang From Taiwan |
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Christiane Wipplinger |
Christiane Wipplinger |
Danka Kruszewska |
Daphne Stewart |
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For EQ 2007 Dec Challenge This is only my imagination - I have never been there yet... Original designed for the January' 06 "Perspective" challenge on the "EQ_leicht_gemacht" German speaking yahoo mailing list. One Block and many new fabrics from EQ collections only. Please show this picture necessary in Cm (new EQ6 fabric scale ability)
Danka Kruszewska |
My intention was to draw the lady in the window and give her red hair and a blue gown; the cat was going to be a calico. Then I realized that a mere mortal -- and her cat -- would be a temporary presence in a building that would have architecture such as this. The detailed drawing morphed into a sketch, a suggestion of an earthly life that comes and goes, while the dwelling goes on and on. Challenges are for learning but I didn't spend too much time on research. I think a true lancet window would be tall and narrow and might not be of a height to sit on. This is a fantasy quilt with a fantasy window. Daphne Stewart Sunnyside, Washington |
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Debbie Weber |
D. Katherine Willis |
Hélène Laparra |
Hélène Laparra |
This mini quilt was inspired by a slide found
among my Grandfathers things. I actually traced the images from an imported
photo. So much easier with JPG ability now. Yeah!! The house is the
"family farm" and the picture was taken from the fenced area
for the chickens. Debbie Weber |
D. Katherine Willis I placed standard EQ-6 blocks on layer 2 of a horizontal strip setting and took advantage of the auto border feature. |
I couldn't resist in drawing a symbol of French
architecture for this challenge! |
Thanks to the wreathmaker tool to make this design with
the Eiffel Tower block that I drew in a very simplified way. |
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Judy Messenger |
Judy Messenger |
Jo Moury |
Jane Turgeon |
by Judy Messenger On a recent trip to Italy, I was inspired by the mosaics on the Cathedral and Bell Tower (Leaning Tower of Pisa), and felt that they would make great quilt patterns. The block with the flower in the middle is inspired by the 12 mosaic blocks on the first floor of the Leaning Tower. Each has a 3-D flower in the center. When I make this block, I plan to tack a silk flower in the middle, rather than use the applique. The block with the pink design in the middle is inspired by one of the mosaics on the cathedral. It's drawn with a thin "outline" around the applicque in the middle, but I plan to use fusible bias when I make the block. The colours are similar to the marble colours used in the mosaics on the cathedral. |
by Judy Messenger This quilt was inspired by the mosaics on the Cathedral at Pisa, Italy, which immediatly reminded me of quilt blocks when I saw the cathedral last summer. The colours were inspired by the colours in the marble mosaics on the front of the cathedral. The border modif choosen is from the EQ library, but it is similar to the designs carved in the marble arches around the mosaics. |
Original Mariner's compass variation based on the tile work on the fllor at the main enterance of Harris Teeter stores. I've looked at this compass many times and thought it would make a cool quilt, this challenge was the motivation I needed to get drawing AND it sure was a challenge to draw, I need Patti's book NOW!! The scrollwork is from the Auto border library 'cause every quilt needs a little applique! Jo Moury |
This diamond inset is on the wall and floor of our new bathroom. The Roman blind now has a band from this EQ design that lines up with the wall tile insert. I used Seminole piecing as the construction technique. The pieced border is simulated in EQ to get the grout to line up. Jane Turgeon, Northeastern Ontario
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Judith Best |
Judith Best |
Judy Zaspel |
Kay Ahr |
I used a picture of a Church window as inspiration using batik fabrics to color the window panes but a senic landscape fabric would work well. The "glass" pieces are motifs and reverse applique would work well for this design. Judith Best |
I used the same window picture for my inspiration using a floral fabric. Judith Best |
This quilt is custom set and is made from one block. The design was inspired by a Frank Lloyd Wright window. |
Still in my classroom supervising standardized testing. There are trapezoidal tables with their four legs. Also narrow metal support bars from the legs to the table top. Kay Ahr |
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Kay Ahr |
Leanne Davis |
Linda Erickson |
L. Dickinson |
Standing in my classroom, supervising testing. And there were those dull brown file cabinets sitting against the wall. The drawer fronts are a little wonky. Kay Ahr |
This design is based on the floor tiles in the entry way of the Wellington Hotel in North Adelaide (a very good spot for steak if you're ever in Adelaide) Leanne Davis |
Designed by Linda Erickson, In creating this quilt, I was thinking about the old folk song, "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds, which satirizes suburbia by describing rows of houses made of "ticky tacky". I used motifs set on layer 2 for the "windows". |
This quilt was designed from the photo collection by Mary Ann Sullivan of the bell tower architecture at Mills College by Julia Morgan . The tower is stunning; everytime I drove past it I was thrilled anew at the sight. |
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