January 2008 Challenge: Make It Seasonal! (Page 2)

We did have a ton of snow and with the unusually warm weather and rain we now have icicles.

Judith Best
London, Ontario

Kay Ahr
Sparks, Nevada USA

I live right on the boundary between the cities of Sparks and Reno, Nevada. I have a great view out the window in my dining room where I sew -- the park with ponds and the mountains.

It's winter here! Light grey skies during the day with lots of snow showers. Then these magnificent pastel sunsets in the evenings.

This wall hanging is a beautiful sunset.

"Out my window" in my case is rain, rain, rain in Hawaii, January 2008. Here on the Big Island it's rain, wind and rainbows. So, here's Storm at Sea, my own block of lightning storm cloud in the center, my own block of 'whirlwind' for the wind blowing the lush plant life, and of course, the beautiful rainbows. It's our version of Winter...... and btw, it looks much nicer shown larger and without the drawing lines showing!

Laurie Hopman

by Linda Erickson,
Sierra Vista, AZ

My kitchen windows give a wonderful view of the Huachuca Mountains to the west.

I used an on-point layout as the background and learned (sort of) to draw an applique motif for the tree placed on layer 2.

I used the block, Tangled Stars, in a skewed layout with snowflake and sky fabrics to achieve a snowy day and night effect.

Lynn from Nebraska

I used blocks from the block library and some slightly altered traditional blocks to make the snowflakes. The Monkey Wrench blocks are to represent the swirling winds we seem to get with most of the snow that falls in Nebraska. The weather man anounces "Blizzard Conditions" with snow and blowing snow - we have had plenty of that this winter.

Northern Virginia

Ruth Rocker
Beavercreek, OH
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Right now, it's VERY cold. We have a hot tub in our Florida room which has a metal roof. It's a gamble every night when we go out to the tub whether or not there will be ice on the ceiling. We look hard for it so we don't get dive bombed with little ice cubes as they melt!

These two blocks began life as an Ohio Star and I just made some additional lines and recolored them. It has sort of a circular look which is what the wind here is doing, too. Brrrr!

guess what!
it's raining.

tqquilter
Torquay Devon England

From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

We are in full summer. So I was inspired by the Rio de Janeiro beaches to create this wallhanging design. January is the hottest month in Brazil. Go to the beach is an adorable plan.
The design has a central appliqued block and heart motifs around, in a custom lay-out.

Co. Meath Ireland

I enjoyed designing this quilt so much. Some time I would like to sit down and actually sew it into a "funny" and casual bed quilt. I like wall hangings a lot but find it so satisfying to sit at the machine sewing a bed quilt. Maybe that's just a practical side of me coming into play or it could be the fact that I always feel at a loss whenever my projects are completed. From that point of view it takes me longer to complete a bed quilt than it does a wall hanging.
I'm one of those people who enjoys working on the binding +the sleeve & label.
This design started off as a traditional bed quilt and eventually this wall hanging evolved. The "Split Level House" & "Smiling Cartoon Cat" plus the Crocus flowers are from the Block Library. I used PieceDraw to draw the background pieced block and set it on Layer 1 of Custom Quilt. The arch and the rest of the motifs I drew using the PatchDraw tools and they are set on Layer 2.

Co. Meath Ireland

At the end of this month our days are starting to lengthen thankfully after the our overcast winter. It's a cheering reminder that spring is just around the corner to see the leaves of the bulbs bursting forth. Even though our winter days can be quite overcast I wanted to create the blocks in bright colors to indicate our early Springs. I created the motifs using Patchdraw block.The rabbit is from the program's Library. Some of the Patch drawings are saved as motifs without the background blocks.

Norway

I used a photo and set it in a blockdesign.
Some snow are places around.

Club EQ Challenge January 2008

Norway

I used a photo from our farm.
And made some snow around.

Club EQ Challenge January 2008

Taiwan

Feb 7,2008 is Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). The Chinese animal signs are a 12-year cycle used for dating the years.
The animal signs of 2008 is rat.

As I finish up this challenge entry, it is snowing. We are expecting our largest snowfall of the year. 6 to 10 inches...
Tomorrow will definitely be a Snow Day
here. Debbie Weber, Wheeling IL

I have always liked tree blocks. Great place to use a variety of green fabrics.
This winter my bird feeder is full of birds, but the cardinals don't visit as much as I would like.
Debbie Weber
Wheeling, IL

Houston, Texas

This time of year Houston is filled with sunny skies, antique rose blooms, and scattered oak leaves.

I'm not sure eather this representsthe weather here in Virginia when you will SEE this quilt. The joke here is that if you don't like the weather, wait a day and it will change! This kinda-sorta depicts the eather we've been having over the past week or two. Many storm warnings and as much ice as snow with wind.

This will get made into cloth, not too far in the future, I won the pieced blocks at our last guild meeting, so "all" I have to do is applique th snow flakes.

All of these flakes came out of the blocks library or the quilting motif library that I turned into appliques.

Jo Moury
Haymarket, VA

In 1995, I designed a double-bed sized quilt with 52 different greens for pieced trees, scattered them randomly, but found it boring. My son Tom looked at my graph paper plan and said, "You need some cross-country skiers". The result has been a much loved and used quilt. This EQ designed wall-hanging is remiscent of Tom's idea and faster to design. World-class cross country ski trails are close by for all to enjoy.

Jane Turgeon
Northeastern Ontario

Toronto, Ontario Canada

This is a representation of the tree on the boulevard in front of my house. There are many maple trees along my street, and when they lose their leaves in the fall, you can see "lumps" of leaves and twigs on the ends of the branches that will presumably be used again next spring when the birds return.

I could envison this quilt also done in a postcard size, using decorative stitches on the sewing machine as the quited snowflakes.

Perth, Western Australia

It's funny this topic should come up right now as I've just returned from a six week trip to the UK, during my summer holidays! The first 10 blocks represent the skies and sights we saw in the wintery UK and the last two show coming back to Australia and temperatures in the high 30sC.

We thoroughly enjoyed our winter experiences, but are also very glad to be back in the familiar bright sunshine and warmth.

Perth, Western Australia

This represents the seemingly endless days of blue skies and sunshine and the clear starry nights that we have in our summer. Sometimes a little less clear sky and sunshine and a bit more rain would actually be good, but we still love that bright blue sky!

South Florida

Original Overlaid Block/Quilt
Using Custom Set in EQ5

January 2008

Sue Wegert
Lily Pond Quilt Designs
Warsaw, IN

Karneval
I used a Horziontal Quilt Layout
and a Clown Motiv

Braeside, Ontario

After the plough and sanders have been by a couple of times the snow gets very dirty. I wonder if the snowflakes remain intact under all that dirt.

Braeside, Ontario

January in the Ottawa Valley means snow and this year we have quite a lot of it. I know that snowflakes have 6 points but you get my drift.

Tonight we are waiting for it to snow so I thought it apropriate to use a dark snowy theme! You probably think I am crazy because I love it when it snows!

A Texan Quilting in the UK!
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