January 2008 Challenge: Make It Seasonal! (Page 1)

St. Charles, Illinois USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Designed for the January, 2008, clubEQ challenge, "Make it seasonal."

I chose the winter season, where, around here (near Chicago), it's snowy and icy and COLD. The icy blue coloring makes this a quilt that will be cool even if it's a warm wrapper!

St. Charles, Illinois USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Designed for the January, 2008, clubEQ challenge, "Make it seasonal."

This was a challenging quilt to create with a virtual (irregular outline) border over a base of a Baby Blocks layout. I love the dramatic effect of the black background.

I developed this snowflake for another design but snow fits for January in the UK, though not a lot and not everywhere
Audrey in Sale UK

This is a Raindrop Block from EQ, I then used the symetry tool to arrive at this pattern. I used cold colours to refelect the cold, The Raindrop block I chose because it rains such a lot in January in Manachester UK

Audrey in Sale Uk

August in Tampa
Cheryl Brown
Tampa, Florida

My winter perspective is 'looking out at' as much as possible, not 'being out in' the snow. The coloring of the 'Goose in the Pond' blocks makes me feel toasty warm.

Or the toasty warm may be because the thermostat is turned too high ...

Daphne Stewart

Sunnyside, Washington

I grew up on the Texas panhandle where grass went dormant and turned brown in the winter. I was surprised to learn that the lawns in Washington state stay green year-round.

I like putting peanuts out for the squirrels (additionally for the magpies but not so enjoyable). In truth, I put the nuts on our retaining wall, but a snowy lawn makes a prettier background.

Daphne Stewart

Sunnyside, Washington

I like to see snow in January but rarely happens where I live in NJ

I thought some nice ice crystals that almost looked like flowers would be nice for January

Texas winters are mild. The yellow greens are for the dormant grass. True greens for the oak trees and hollies. Blue for crystal clear skies and cleansing rains. The red center square of the uneven log cabin is for the berries. The butterflies are for life ready to spring forth again. I recommend two different black Paula Nadelstern fabrics for the butterflies. Using two closely related fabrics will keep youe eye flowing around the quilt. Experiment with different color combinations in the border to make your quilt glow.

Summer in my part of Australia is often long, very hot (we've already had a few days over 40degC this summer), and very dry. Summer days are often accompanied by dust and hot north winds. Bushfires are a constant threat.
This quilt is named after a book by South Australia children's author Colin Thiele - a story about a bushfire in the height of summer and its effect on a small country community

Leanne Davis
Adelaide, South Australia

Chelsea, MI
For the EQ January 2008 challenge

Inspired by the falling leaves in New England, I tilted the log cabin blocks to look like they are falling. Then added the embroidered leaves on layer 3.

This quilt represents our very grey and dark boring winter this very season. We do have a small amount of misty sunlight, which the yellow shows. The red represents the Christmas Holidays. There are some patches which are white, which means that we actually had some snow for a couple of days, enough to build snowmen and play around in it with bobs and sleighs. But it's melting away fast already...

The quiltdesign in the border shows New Years Eve with all its fireworks. We have two children who have birthdays this time of the year ( Dec 8 and Jan 5) thereof the ballons around two of the borders. If I would make this quilt I think I would quilt in the ditch around each patch that hasn't a quiltmotif already.

I have chosen the quilmotifs from Quiltmakers Volume 1 to 3. I just drew the block myself, and the colors are from the solid color palette.

January 7 2008

Ylva Erlingsson
Stockhom, Sweden

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Seasonal!
I used the last layout in the Wall quilt section to make a winterish bargello background and motif from the Library to make the scenic fantasy. I added the quilted "smoke" as there had to be some warmth to make it a retreat.
Originally I used the fabrics from the Winter download but used the Random recolor wand to "Map to color", to reduce the size for e-mail.
Nancy Anderson

This scrapbook cover was designed espeically for the February challenge. When I lived in the midwest (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio) my favorite season was autunm. However, In Texas my favorite season is spring!
Barbara Gilstad

It's winter here in southwest BC. We are warmer than most of our province at this time of year, we have green landscape all year long, but we also get lots of rainy days, occasional snowflakes and slushy drizzle. It's been windy ! And then there are the gloriously sunny days when the snowy mountain tops shine and sparkle. I chose the fabrics in my quilt to reflect all of this.

Carolyn, British Columbia, Canada

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Carol E. Skrube
Sheboygan, Wi.

We had almost 12" of snow last week, so all the winter sports are very appropriate.
I used Andrea's idea with gifs and used
a photo, hat and thin ice sign on layer 3

I Here in Holland its to warm for the time of the year I don't live in a country with wintersport, much snow and ice.
Sometimes ice .I live on the border of Rotterdam when I walked I see birds, green meadows with ducks. The ducks are one of my favourite animals. Now to early the narcissen are blowing. Spring is coming soon.

Carien Verbiest
Rotterdam the Netherlands

When the sun is shining and the sky is blue with the famous dutch clouds. I see the ducks flying in V-form from here to an other place .

Carien Verbiest
Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Charlotte Kleiner
Winnipeg, MB Canada

This runner is a variation of the first quilt without the tree motifs.

I used the block in the EQ library > 8 Overlaid Blocks > Simple Designs > Spinning Snowflake as a starting point to make my snowflake blocks. I used pictures by Wilson Bentley of actual snowflakes, as inspiration to make the other snowflake motifs used in this quilt.

Charlotte Kleiner
Winnipeg, MB Canada

One of Winnipeg's nicknames is "Winter-peg". The challenge was to "Design a quilt that reflects the current season where you live"...so, this is a bit of what it looks like at this time of year in Winnipeg.

I used the block in the EQ library > 8 Overlaid Blocks > Simple Designs > Spinning Snowflake as a starting point to make my snowflake blocks. I used pictures by Wilson Bentley of actual snowflakes, as inspiration to make the other snowflake motifs used in this quilt.

I used the Scrappy Stripper block that I combine with stencil and appliqué blocks from the EQ6 library; As the daylight is shorter than the night, the quilt has a dark background. Pines on the mountains have snow (not yet in town).
Wish i could go on the other side of the planet at this time of the year!
Hélène, France

Here also I used the Scrappy Stripper block with another layout. The sky on the morning (before sunrise) and at night when I come back from work has really this dark grey-blue color.
Hélène, France

Janet Bangs
Guildford, England

This quilt represents how winter should be, rather than how it actually is this year in England. I took the kaleidoscope block and put it in a baby block setting and it magically created these lovely ice crystals. The colouring had to be subtle to be realistic but the crytals could also have been set against a dark background to make them stand out more.

Janet Bangs
Guildford, England

The winter here in England has been exceptionally mild this year - no snow and very little frost. This means it has felt more like autumn, and has been very grey and miserable with leaves blowing around. This quilt represents this - not necessarily very pretty, but could be reinterpreted very nicely in subtle Japanese taupe fabrics with rich golden colours for the leaves.

We've been having extremes in weather lately everything from spring like weather to thunder storms to snow blizzards. This quilt is a representation of the combination of thunder storms and snow storms.

Judith Best
Ontario, Canada