Barb Vlack
Flirty Eyelashes
Designed for May/June, 2003, club EQ challenge: Curved Piecing I used
an original version of a New York Beauty block. I love the look of elongated
blocks for a border.
cptvdeo@inil.com
St. Charles, IL
Barb Vlack
Amber Waves of Grain
Designed for May/June, 2003, club EQ challenge: Curved Piecing The background
block was drawn in EasyDraw, though I would probably applique it to piece
it. When it is colored in neutrals, I think it makes a nice background
for a simple applique.
cptvdeo@inil.com
St. Charles, IL
Barb Vlack
Port Hole to the Deep Blue Sea
Designed for May/June, 2003, club EQ challenge: Curved Piecing Coloring
the curved pieced background in cool colors looked like sea water to me,
so I added fish motifs. I have also colored the background in warm colors
to look like fire for another project.
cptvdeo@inil.com
St. Charles, IL
Vicki Aljobritt
World's Fair with Curves!
Starting with the
"Blockbase 2465 World's Fair" block I replaced
straight lines with curves.
VLT51@aol.com
Althea W. Matthews
Ternent
Hugs-n-Kisses
My granddaughter always signs her cards with X's, O's and hearts. I took
the Ohio Star block, used one quarter of the design and put in arcs instead
of straight lines.
almatt@suite224.net
Williamsfield, OH
Annette Schon
Flower Triangles
svenskjakt@aol.com
Bonn/Germany
Annette Schon
Spectrum
svenskjakt@aol.com
Carol M.
Fans
Fans
Carole Casadonte
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this site!
carole@heavenlyfabrics.com
Carole Casadonte
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this site!
carole@heavenlyfabrics.com
Scrappy Trails
This isn't a fancy, complicated design to challenge anyone's EQ design abilities, but it was fun to make, both on the computer and for real.
I designed and made this quilt many years ago after a guild workshop by Betty Kiser introduced me to the wonderful plexiglas templates for rotary-cutting the curved shapes. I used some of the huge stack of 6" squares I'd swapped with other guild members. The red "trail" allowed me to use the small corner cut-offs on other blocks. The real quilt looks very much like this drawing and it was a popular class when I was teaching at a quilt shop in NC. My son, now graduating grade 12, was in grade 3 when it was made, and had a wonderful time laying out the blocks, and then running his toy cars over the paths before and after I'd sewed the top together. I used wool batting and a flannel backing for this quilt, hand-quilting it using the variegated cotton Watercolour thread and a size 7 embroidery needle. The blue border has a large variegated cable design for the quilting.
I've since seen a similar quilt in one of Pepper Cory's Drunkard Path books that has the path running continuously around the quilt - no starting and stopping paths, or half arcs on the edges like mine.
Well, a hole!©
This may look like a virtual quilt but it can be pieced quite easily
if
one is eager to handle 36 different templates per quarter. I promise
I'll do just that, when I find
the time!
The bubbles would be easy: just quilt play with pretty thread.
stewartld@bentonea.com
Daphne Stewart
I'm Abel to Cain©
My Pastor might
shun me for the title pun, but this was great fun to design. It might
also start thoughts of murder if I tried to make it up in real live fabric.
Barb V. said she is sewing one on commission similar to one of her examples--I
can only think the key word there is 'commission'. When someone pays
me, I'll try this one, too!
Sunnyside, Washington
Deegee Hitzfelder
Stormy Weather
I have used easy draw and the fabrics from the program to create a picture
of the awsome forces of nature for this quilt.
degee@aol.com
LaCoste, TX
Desert Sun
Curved block by Donna Lessmann
Donna Fenger
Bright color for a
possible baby quilt.
This is my first challenge.
sdrussell@chartermi.net
Mohawk Trail
I actually made
this block using a very different coloring, as part of a sampler
quilt I made last spring. I liked the dramatic effect it has in a
quilt.
ekallen@snet.net
Old Saybrook, CT
I Wish You Well
This is one of my favorite layouts for the Drunkard's Path block. I have also used it as a stencil on some of my other quilts, just using the red patches in the design and it was a wonderful stencil. I tried to recreate it but I couldn't do it as it was. I believe I would need to copy the block, scan it and make a bitmap and then trace it. Will play with it.
More Chicken Nuggets Please
I made the platter and the nuggets separate from the quilt; used self facing right sides together; turned right sides out then tacked them on by hand so they retained a dimensional look.
The Chicks of Summer
Sunburst Mandala I
Try the block in a horizontal layout, you`ll be surpized when you use the symmetry tool!
GGirndt14@aol.com
Paderborn, Germany
Gabi Girndt
Sunburst Mandala II
Jane VanDenburg
Dumbbell Ribbons
Dumbbell with Star block with enlarged corner blocks from the first quilt.
I also enjoy playing with diagonals.
janeisla@yahoo.com
Gwinn, MI
Jane VanDenburg
Dumbbell Dishes
Dumbbell with Star, an original block, a derivation of "Broken Dishes" from
Ruby McKim. I curved some of the lines, eliminated others and finally
added the points in the corners. I enjoy blocks that are asymetric.
janeisla@yahoo.com
Gwinn, MI
Kristina Hoglund
Window Curves
It is so fun to play with points
and curves. The inspiration for this quilt was a church window.
kristina@quiltbiten.com
Sweden
Laury Vaden
Circular Saw
the_vadens@csi.com
Neshanic Station,
New Jersey
Laury Vaden
Broken Waves
I recently attended a workshop with Carol Singer. Her
method of piecing
makes this quilt totally sewable even the borders.
the_vadens@csi.com
Neshanic Station, New Jersey
Curve Into Fall
Three curved blocks designed for
the May "curved block" challenge.
QuilterLindaE@netscape.net
Albuquerque, NM