June 2007 Challenge: Inspired Color Scheme! (Page 1)

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Barb Vlack
Glass Baskets

Barb Vlack
Apple Bobbers

Charlotte Kleiner
Abolone Skein

Charlotte Kleiner
Abolone Star

I took a picture of a Chahuli art glass sculpture from the underside looking up. The bright colors were fabulous! I used the Tulip Basket block because it could be set it into Baby Blocks layout and multi-colored. I love the secondary designs!

St. Charles, Illinois USA

The antique Halloween greeting postcard that inspired this color scheme doesn't use our familiar Hallowwen colors at all. I found the Irish Logs block in the EQ6 Block Library and added a few lines to make it work for this design.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

I often can find colour inspiration from skeins of needlework and embroidery threads hanging in my local Needlework shop, Mrs. Twitchette's Eye. A varigated skein from the Watercolours by Caron collection of threads was the inspiration skein for the colours used in this hanging/table runner. (See my inspiration picture in the Sketchbook of an assortment of threads and beads inspired by this skein of thread.) This skeins' colour was called Abolone. I designed the block in a bargello style in order to get the colours to twist to resemble the twists of the skein of thread.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

Using the bargello block and the Symmetry tool resulted in a lot of interesting designs...it was hard to pick just one....here's a favourite. I used my inspiration picture to choose fabrics from the EQ Fabric library to match these colours.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

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Carol Baldry
Time, Tide and Ice Storms

Carol Baldry
Circles and Squares

Barbara Gilstad
Cactus Flowers

Birdie Cutair
Butterflies

I really liked the secondary patterns that this block formed.

Davenport, Iowa

Ice storms leave interesting patterns in the trees. It doesn't seem like as much color as there really is.

Davenport, Iowa

My photo palette is comprised of snippets of green foliage found in nature and cactus flowers about to bloom.

Maryland

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Birdie Cutair
Butterflies 2

Berit Pramm
Blue Flower Quilt

Berit Pramm
Fan Quilt Play

Brigitte Heitland
Cobblestones

Maryland

I found inspiration to this design in a
Norwegian quilt Magazine.

Norway

This colors I found in a Norwegian
Quilt Magazine,and I was inspired to make this Fan Quilt Play.

Norway

A friend of mine took a photo of cobblestones and the soft greys and earthtones inspired me for this quilt.
More about the way I came from the pic to the quilt you'll find on this website.

Germany

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Carolyn L
Geology

Carolyn L
My fabric selections

Christiane W
Tuscany Sunflowers

Claudia Chang
Flamenco

I am both a quilter and a geologist's daughter. For the EQ Challenge, I chose colours from a photo found on the internet of mineral deposit rocks at Artist's Palette, Death Valley National Park, California. I used an adaptation of log cabin block set on point, with plain squares added. This is a vertical strip layout, with borders made using the EQ auto-borders tool. It was an interesting challenge, I never would have added the browns on my own.

This are the fabrics I used (from Stash) surrounding the image that the colour scheme is based on. It is of mineral rocks at Artist's Palette, Death Valley USA. Photo is copyright by terragalleria.com so I am using it only to pick my colours. See also the notes on the photo block

In sketchbook/photos you will find the photo which inspired me.

The Flamenco poster (in photos sketchbook) that inspired this color scheme.

Taiwan

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Daphne Stewart
We Remember January

Daphne Stewart
Six Bells

Deborah Calyo
Jungle Crossroads

Deborah Calyo
Scarlet Fever

The color scheme for this quilt came from a month's painting in a 'Cottages' calendar. I searched for an artist's name but found none; but the artist wouldn't own the color scheme anyway. Thanks for the inspiration, though, whoever you were!

I used the layout Horizontal Medallion #26, with Log Cabin and Dresdon Bladed Flower blocks.

Sunnyside. Washington

Word to the wise EQ user: if you start a challenge with a layout from the library, don't delete it from the sketchbook until you record the number. Once it's filled with blocks and colors, the bare bones of the layout are hard to see.

I finally determined that I used Special Effects #11, modified (I replaced the center four on-point squares with a single large one). The blocks used include Birds in Air, Celtic Patch 3, and Double Tulip.

The color scheme came from a painting of a stormy sea at dawn.

Sunnyside. Washington

The coloring of this quilt was inspired by the photo of a scarlet macaw against a soft focus background of green.
For private use only.

Spring Valley, NY

The coloring of this quilt was inspired by a photo of a scarlet macaw against a soft focus green background.
For personal use only.

Spring Valley, NY

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D. Katherine Willis
Purple Moss

Hilde J
Book in Blue

Hilde J
Blue Harmony

Hélène Laparra
Bougainvillea

The inspirational photo for this quilt was part of the USGS / NASA Landsat Project and features the Great Sandy Desert in Australia. I was attracted to the unusual color combination of purple, olive, and teal.

The pieced block was based on one I admired in a quilting magazine. (See block notecard for data.) The stencil design (Petal Wreath) is from EQ6's stencil library.

Houston, Texas, USA

I look in a blogg and there it was. A painting in blue with one book and a bootle of wine. I love blue color ..........

Norway

This is more like the painting I see on the blog.

Norway

This quilt comes from a picture of a purple bougainvillea that I took last month in Rome. I drew the impossible triangle block from a former class at QU with Patty Anderson. I rearranged it for this challenge and thought that it fitted well!

France

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Hélène Laparra
Summer in Biarritz's beach

Janet Bangs
Stormy Night Sky

Janet Bangs

Jean J
Snow's white - isn't it?

I used a picture that my niece took last Summer in the beach of Biarritz (South West of France, if you can go and visit the Basque Country!!!). I used blocks from EQ6. The hexagons represent the tents. Upper gray is the front wall of the beach, yellow for the sand and blue for the water.

France

The photo is of a stormy sky and forms the palette for the colours of this quilt which is made from the "baby blocks" layout.

Guildford, England

Guildford, England

I pixelated this photo to see how manu shades of blue there are in it. I found at least 7 and no white. The whole quilt is a cold and sullen as the day I took the photo. I don't thin I'll be making this quilt in this colourway.

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Jane Turgeon
Waves on the Sand

Jane Turgeon
Easter Sunrise

Judith Best
Star Flower

Judith Best
Star Flower 2

Colours are from our shore on Lake Huron. The lake is very low, so waves of blue run across shoals of sand. Borders and stencils from the EQ6 libraries.
Looking for an anchor or shell stencil for the corner of the first border.

Northeastern Ontario

Mostly Benardin fossil fabrics for colour. This photo was taken from Scarborough Bluffs just before an Easter Sunrise service, 2004. The previous year my Mother had recovered from falling from the loft at her cottage. That she was able to attend, made this very special service and the sunrise 'rose' to the occasion.

Northeastern Ontario

As inspiration I used a picture from my garden of briight yellow sunflowers against a blue sky.

Ontario, Canada

Ontario, Canada