Textile Improvisation Team Challenge

A small group of women get together once a month to try new techniques, laugh and sample ice cream and cake.  Okay, occasionally we have pie.  We decided to make an art quilt sampler for the Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild's biennial quilt show.  The only rules were that each quilt had to be 14" square and each had to include a piece of a blue-green batik to give us a bit of continuity.  Other than those restrictions, we each could do whatever we wanted.  We are quite good at "whatever".

JoAnne Simonson made an abstract dragon.

Karen Carroll has just gotten into inchies and featured them in her quilt.

Vicki Strohm has two dragons - in the lower right corner you will find an observer.

Vivian Terbeek is making some large ocean-inspired pieces but scaled down for this one.

Norma Roberts made this jolly wonky log cabin inspired quiltlet.

And I made a little cabin in the fall woods.

I made a black quilt to tack the little quilts to for display at the quilt show. 

If you are in the Springfield, MO area September, 23, 24, or 25, please

come visit our quilt along with several hundred other fine quilts. 

The Heron

I forgot to add my HERON in my last post about my up-coming gallery show. I don't know how he got left out since it is one of my favorites. I used one of my hand-dyed fabrics for its background. This quilt (approximately 22" x 28") is currently being shown at the Ozark Piecemakers Quilt Guild show in Springfield, Missouri. It was awarded a second place ribbon in the art quilt category. LATE BLOOMER, shown in the previous post, also received a second place ribbon in the wall quilt category.