Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Juried Art Show Quilt

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This winter our guild decided to make an art quilt to enter into the Northern Juried Art Show which was being held in Churchill, MB last week.  It didn’t win any prizes but that’s okay as it was fun to make.  We came up with the idea of “Eyes” as our theme and put them into the context of the feeling your being watched as you walk to the outhouse in the dark.   I’m not sure how many of you can relate to this idea but I sure can.  My parents had a cottage with no running water when I was young so trips to the outhouse, or ‘Biffy’ as we called it, were frequent and you never knew what was out there in the dark watching you!   So we called this quilt “ I Think I Can Wait ‘til Morning”.

Our guild members made scary animal eyes on a piece of Kona Black fabric that we handed out and they could use whatever technique they wanted to create their eyes.  We got back a wonderful range of eyes and then created a scene that included the outhouse in the background and two scary trees in the foreground.

I was asked to quilt it and as you can see by the pictures this was done back in March when the snow and ice where still around… and you thought there won’t be anymore ice pictures.  ;) 

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I pebbled a path to the outhouse, added lots of extra quilted branches, added a spider web and spider and tall grasses along the bottom for more animals to hide in.

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22 comments:

  1. This is too fun! It's a great quilt!

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  2. what a hoot! Love your quilting, but all those eyes are the best! Brings back memories of "holding it"!

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  3. That is so clever, and your quilting just made it!

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  4. As always the guild did a fantastic job. Can't believe you didn't win something. Love the quilting Kathy.

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  5. We are the best, here in God's country

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  6. Я в захваті!!! Чудова ідея!!!
    Коли я була зовсім мала - ми жили в селі, тому ця ваша ковдра із сюжетом і мого дитинства.

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  7. This is absolutely a fun quilt! It has me smiling! Definitely a work of art!

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  8. Tämä on jotain mitä ei voi sanoin kuvata, taivaallinen, ihana, kaunis ja upea!

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  9. Просто шедевр!!!

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  10. Soooo Funny!!! Certainly brings back memories of camping/cottage etc. I always made someone come with me... ha ha.

    Great idea... great quilting... as alsways... thanks for sharing :-)

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  11. OMG, I love it. What memories you brought back of going to the outhouse at the cottage in the night. Pitch dark using the flash light to guide your way up the path, and having a frog hop across your foot. We called it the biffy too! great Quilt!

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  12. What a fun quilt. So imaginative! Thank you for posting it.

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  13. What a great quilt. You did a wonderful job quilting in all the detailed "landscape". It must have been fun to do.

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  14. I love it!!!! The quilting is so cool!!!! Very creative!

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  15. What a delightfully fun quilt. The quilting is wonderful!

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  16. You win A FIRST PLACE RIBBON in my quilt show. What a wonderful quilt and a wonderful idea for a quilt. Your quilting is awesome.

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  17. Oh Kathy, such creative quilting! Absolutely adorable. Wonderful job!

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