RISING STAR QUILT SHOW 2006
Challenge Quilts
On this page: Challenge Quilt Makers A-J:
The 2006 Challenge:
Black and white with one accent color. Maximum perimeter, 168".
Click on the pictures to see larger images of the quilts.
Red Eye, by
Shirley Ament-Bergey
2nd Prize,
Challenge Quilts.
Pattern Name: Cathedral Window.
Challenge Quilt 30 x 30
Hand Pieced
It was done for my son who is into contemporary art so I tried to fill that void. He was very pleased.
A Change in the
Weather, by Sarah Aubry
Original Paper Piecing Pattern.
Challenge Quilt 20 x 40
Machine Pieced, Hand Embroidered, Painted, Machine Quilted,
Embroidered, Drawing, Transfer
This piece is the first of a series combining sketching, translucency, and movement. It was inspired by Al Gore, with whom I was lucky enough to shake hands after he signed my copy of "An Inconvenient Truth." The label is shaped as an ice cream cone to remember a moment of that very hot day.
Deck of Cards, by
Florence Baturin
Pattern Name: Deck of cards.
Challenge Quilt 27 x 27
Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted
I've had the border fabric for quite awhile. The Challenge was incentive to combine it with some of the black and white fabrics in my stash. Although this is not a two-sided quilted project, the back is also colorful and in keeping with the Challenge theme.
Anansi, by
Judy Botsford
Pattern Name: Spider Web.
Challenge Quilt 34 x 34
Machine Pieced, Machine Appliqued, Hand
Embroidered, Fused, Machine Quilted
Gerald McDermott's book, "Anansi the Spider", inspired this first exploration into paper piecing. In this story from the Ashanti people of Ghana, Anansi's six spider sons rescue him from a series of disasters and in quarreling over their reward provide Anansi with a reason for placing the moon in the heavens.
Boathouse on the
Lake, by Carol Brown
Original
design.
Challenge Quilt 15 x 21
Machine Pieced, Hand
Appliqued, Machine Quilted
Every year that I go to our Spring Fling at Geneva Point I swear I am going to make a quilt of a certain vista. I could never get the pattern and colors to work out. This year I finally figured out how to portray it with a night sky, snow on the ground, and a blue lake.
Winter, by
Amy Bursey
3rd Prize, Challenge
Quilts.
Pattern Name: Landscape.
Challenge Quilt
13 x 21
Machine Pieced, Machine Quilted
Working with the challenge colors I decided to do a landscape with mountains.
Mutant Garden, by
Christina Crouch
Pattern Name: Origami
flowers.
Challenge Quilt 42 x 21
Machine Pieced, Hand
Appliqued, Machine Quilted
A geometry and origami lesson all in one. The pattern is from Rebecca Wat's book "Fantastic Fabric Folding". I wanted to see how it would look in black and white. The guys in my house said they looked like mutant flowers plus (yuk!) pink!
... and all that
jazz..., by Barbara Cutler
Original design.
Challenge Quilt 39 x 39
Machine Pieced,
Hand Appliqued, Hand Embroidered, Machine Quilted, 2 Sides
Musical theme inspired by Simply Quilts lesson on to make "trumpets", further enhanced by Parisian cocktail scene. Front and back were done separately, and later put together by hand and machine.
UB313
aka..., by Mary D'Amico
Pattern
Name: Strips and Curves.
Challenge Quilt 39 x 29
Machine
Pieced, Machine Quilted
UB313 is one of three recently identified spheres in our galaxy and 313 was my father's lucky number!
Meadowalk, by
Leonora Feeney
Pattern Name: Hexagons; NOT
Grandmother's garden.
Challenge Quilt 22.5 x 32
Hand
Pieced, Machine Quilted
Making this quilt was as peaceful as the image. What joy to return to handwork, and how easy to bring on trips like the Mississippi River cruise I took to Paducah where this quilt was born.
Tyler and Marilyn
Monroe, by Jeanne Funk-Gedies
Challenge Quilt 22 x 24
Hand Appliqued, Machine Quilted
Tyler and Marilyn are my "black and whites". They're sitting on the porch railing and deciding what's going to happen next.
Circles and Squares, by
Jo-Anne Granger
Challenge Quilt 25 x
36
Hand Pieced, Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted
When I started to quilt, the card trick design was one of the first that I pieced for practice. I have found hand applique to be troublesome so the circle method, demonstrated on Simply Quilts, was easier.
Champagne and
Caviar, by Joyce Hanlon
Pattern
Name: Shoo Fly.
Challenge Quilt 40 x 40
Machine Pieced,
Machine Quilted
Inspired by Truman Capote's famous Black & White Ball held in 1966 at the Plaza Hotel, the op-art of that decade and the elegant simplicity of this classic pattern.
Tumbling Triangles,
by Nancy Howard
Pattern Name: Confetti from
"Fat Quarter Quilts" by Milligan and Smith.
Challenge Quilt 38
x 38
Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted, Machine Quilted
I had a chance to use a teeny, tiny part of the black and white fabrics I have collecting for years.
Anger, by
Candace Jewett
Pattern Name: Own Design.
Challenge Quilt 40 x 40
Machine Pieced, Machine Embroidered,
Fused, Machine Quilted, embellishment
I made this wall quilt to see if I could display emotions in cloth