May 2011 Challenge: Red and White! (Page 1)

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The block was originally published in the 1930s. This quilt design was _not_ among those exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum in March, 2011.

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

I used one of my Rose of Sharon contest block designs for this red and white quilt. The clusters of circles colored all red reminded me of the lingonberries from Sweden that our family loves to serve with turkey, rice pudding or pancakes! This quilt design was _not_ among those exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum in March, 2011.

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

Albuquerque, NM

I took a basket from the library and set that on layer 1 with the Set Auto Borders vine. I then modified a PatchDraw block to be a PatchDraw motif with less patches. I repeated the tulip head as a motif in Layer 2 floating along the vine. This looks best if you right-click the quilt and uncheck the options to outline the patches and blocks.

I redrew and modified a library compass to create this new snowflake. I then colored it in white & cream and 2 shades of red. The layout is vertical strip quilt blocks, half drop, blocks.

Southeastern Virginia, USA

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This is my 1st quilt challenge so I just kept it simple :-)

Texas
My design but could be someone else don't know that much about different quilt designs I was just playing with this one to see what would happen. My first.

Red and white makes me think of candy peppermints so I created some calorie free ones for my quilt

Ontario, Canada

I started out with the double wedding ring block and modified it to create diamonds in the circles and rings.

Ontario, Canada

Sarasota Florida
Used 3 blocks, 3 borders

Sarasota Florida
Same three blocks.

Michigan, USA

Some blocks I choose again and again, both for sewing and for designing. This quilt uses four favorites or their variations.

I started with the Horizontal-Center Medallions 25 from EQ's layout library and popped in blocks 'Five Patch Shoo Flt', 'Contrary Wife Variation', Double Irish Chain Block A', and 'Birds in Air'.

This was a fun challenge.

Sunnyside, Washington

I wondered what would happen if I used part of a clip art image to create another design. I happened to have a clip art fish handy so I traced a portion of the fin then repeatedly cloned and reoriented until I got some interesting designs. It turned out to be like eating peanuts -- just one more -- but I stopped when I hade drawn eleven.

This quilt uses the blocks Fish Fin 8 through 11. The sashing block is 'Stripes Bordered Outside 6' from EQ's sashing library.

Just think: if I'd had a clip art hippopotamus handy, I'd have totally different designs. I'd also have the stress of desiding how to spell the plural of hippopotamus for the title.

Sunnyside, Washington

Guildford, England

This combines two things that a love - the red and white combination and a feathered star block. As the colour palate is so restricted I thought a fairly intricate block would be a good option.

Guildford, England

The Ohio Star and Thrifty block are both from the EQ library. This is a very traditional setting, and I have no idea if this combination turned up in the exhibition, but I am sure there were probably similar designs.

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Inklingo Free Diamond/Triangle/Square collection

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Inklingo LITE 6INCH LEMOYNE STAR collection for center blocks and
Inklingo Free Diamond/Triangle/Square collection middle border Lemoyne star blocks

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Changed the on point layout so the corner setting blocks were split.
The celtic block formed a chain effect.

Started with 1 block center then added borders to size. Adjusted border types to make the spiral effect.

Rotated tulip blocks to align spiral spokes.

I used the tulip block as it more closely resembled an old pomegranate block my granddaughter gave me for remembrance of my AQS Des Moines, IA entries in 2008 and 2010.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

This design reminded me of Hardanger embroidery.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

This looks best with Outline Patches & Outline Blocks turned off.

Concord, NH

Taken from a Moda fabric ad
This block is very similar to some in the red and white exhibit. The set is also used with other blocks in the exhibit.

Concord, NH

This quilt looks better if you remove the block and patch outlines. Both of these blocks were used in some of the red and white quilts in the exhibit but not together!

In this two block quilt, the corner and centre blocks appear as stars and the two blocks form interesting secondary designs.
I modified an Ohio Star block and a Diamond in a Square block.

Bracebridge, ON Canada

In this quilt, I used the same blocks in the same layout but reversed the colours in the corner and centre blocks and it ended up masking the star and formed a totally different look to the quilt.

Bracebridge, ON Canada

The theme of Swiss flag was suggested by a friend. So here my variation on the Swiss flag.
Thanks to Antony and Sissi for the choice of this quilt!
Cheers from Switzerland

I used blocks from Eq library to make this quilt.
Cheers from Switzerland

Same block colored 2 ways.
Centennial, Colorado

Washington State USA

I designed the birds and flowers for the bird block and also the butterflies. The scroll block is the EQ block: Scroll with Thorns and Diamonds. I designed the corner scroll block.

Washington State USA

I made connecting pieces for a continuous flow of the EQ block Celtic Patch 2.

For the body of the quilt, I set the snail trail blocks and star blocks on point. The border is another, simpler star placed on point. I played with the coloring until I got what I liked.

Clermont, Florida

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