Stashbusters

Each Month we receive two colours and of a word of inspiration which we can use if we need to.  The piece is 8" square.  

January - rusty orange & lavender and the word was circle..

February - we had red and dark blue - didn't use the inspiration word - can't remember is now.

March - olive green and sun yellow.  Inspiration word eludes me.

April - rusty orange and brown.

May - Sky blue and forest green.

June - Indigo blue and brown.

Enjoying this challenge - some months it's easy & other months, the inspiration 

comes slowly.  Thanks to Brenda Wood - 2Sew Textiles for making this so much fun.

 

2QAQ Colour Challenge

This year's colour challenge for Qld Quilters' Art Quilt group (2QAQ) - one of our members are taking us through the colour wheel.  I'm appliqueing tulips & want to have a vase of them.  I may not get the whole year's in to one vase - perhaps there's a series in this ...........naaah - too much work!

Colour Challenge - Rainbow for November

 I thread painted the bird and lilies and was really happy with the result.

 I called this postcard 'Colours of Australia'.

This one is called "The Party's Over".  I have black to do for December - who knew that this would be appropriate considering what most of our States are going though with all the bush fires.

Yellow - Challenge colour for September

 Daffodil - thread painted, trapuntoed & added to collaged background. If you can enlarge the image, you'll see the stitching.

Lovely yellow flower postcards - daisy & sunflower - tick, September done!

August Challenge

 Blue was the colour for August - managed to get these done.  Blue & White China postcard.

 Blue Bird of Happiness - looks a bit dopey, doesn't he? Postcard.

Blue Skies - A4 piece of collage

2Q Challlenge - White for July

 This is the A4 piece, couple of crocheted doilies made the snowflakes and a bit of hand stitching added to the feel.

 This postcard is called 'Tracks in the Snow'

And this postcard is titled 'White Lace' 

My BROWN Challenge pieces

 "Dinosaur Race" - A4 pieced and quilted

 Postcard "Grasses"  - free motion stitched in 3 shades of brown.

"Leftovers" - pieces left over from the "Dinosaur Race" pieced used to make this postcard.

2QAQ May meeeting

 Challenge colour for May - BROWN!!  Some great pieces.

 More Challenge piec es - love the variety.

 Canvases that will go on sale at various galleries as our Exhibition travels.

A couple of late PINK ones from April.

April - Pink

 2QAQ Colour Challenge - April - Pink.  This postcard is called "A White Sports Coat...…."

 "Pink Elephants"  - postcard.  I stitched wine glasses behind the elephants.

The A4 pieces is titled "Pink Lemonade", although a friend of mine thought is was Pink Gin!!!!  Next month's colour is brown...………...hmmmmmm!

2Q Challenge

My contribution to the Qld Quilters' annual Challenge.  Fabric is provided - I used it in the large turtles and it has to be cover at least 20% of the front of the quilt.  I used a drawing that my niece painted some years ago & used shashiko & perle thread for the quilting.  I found out that I was the runner up in the viewers' choice over the 3 days of our Quilt Connect Show - no prize but tickled that people liked it.

2Q Challenge

 Also featured at the Stitches & Craft Show were the entries from the 2Q Challenge this year.  The fabric for the challenge wast the zebra looking fabric.  Mine is about and titled "Riddles" - zebra's bums, questions marks on newspaper - I asked the question what is black & white and read all over???  Could be a newspaper or a sunburnt zebra.

 

 Placegetters in the challenge.

The fabric for this year!

Broadstrokes

Six of my very talented friends form the group - Broadstrokes - they each received a length of cactus silk fabric and were challenged to produce something.  These are the results - so varied & all so lovely.

More of Calendar challenge

Here are more of the challenges - 2 members managed to do one postcard for each month of the year & they were brilliant as were the others produced.

Calendar Challenge

2QAQ members were challenged to produce something on the theme of 'calendar'.  I had great plans to make something each month - January was as far as I got.  I used 2 diarys - pages from each diary came together to for this month.  It was all I managed to get done..............