BARK

   There is an old robinia tree on our  housing estate, which I have used as the inspiration for my two small quilts. One has been printed with a styrofoam plate, into which I had incised the image, whilst for the other I used a home made stencil. This is the tree that inspired it:

Bark

 This time, I created the piece using a literal interpretation of the theme.

Two dogs playing and barking in the garden.

This month's quilt will be my final submission!

Due to personal circumstances, I regretfully cannot continue participating—it's truly a sad farewell.

Momo

SUBJECT FOR OUR NEXT CHALLENGE

 From Rosemary.  Unfortunately Rosemary is having a bit of a problem with her computer and has asked me to put up her piece, which I have done on her behalf  and I am also giving you her next choice for our new challenge due at the end of January 2026.

The subject is:

BOTANICALS

She thought that as we are all living in different parts of the world it may be quite interesting and varied as to what we all create and produce this next time around.  Trust you will all enjoy this challenge.

BARK

 From Rosemary.

Thank you Jinnie for this subject which I too found to be interesting.  We have so much rain here in New Zealand that Lichen seems to grow on a lot of our trees.  In our garden we have a great deal of trees covered with Lichen, therefore this is my interpretation.

BARK

 This was a very interesting challenge Jinny and I did enjoy what I finally decided to do.  As I did a tree, with some amazing fabric which was given to me by a good friend, it evolved.  As I had space at each side I used metallic thread to create the illusion of branches and then attached leaves to them.  My whole piece, except for the background, was quilted in gold metallic thread and also used the metallic thread to attach the leaves.  It is quite stylistic but I am happy with the result.

THE NEXT CHALLENGE

 Hello everyone.  It is time for our next Challenge subject Jinny, and I wondered if you would all be happy with the following idea, and as there are only four of us left, we could keep it in order e.g. Rosemary next, then Momo and then myself as we have done in the past month.  If you are all agreeable to this, and it is quite fair, Rosemary would be the next person to choose.  If you are happy with this please let us know and then Rosemary can choose the next challenge.  Please let us know.

THE NEXT CHALLENGE

    I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. Here is the next challenge, in case you have time on your hands at the moment: 

                                     BARK

There are several different definitions you could choose from, including one I had never come across before, which is some kind of American chocolate sweet. 

THE NEXT CHALLENGE

 The next person to choose the 

subject for our next challenge for the end of October is:

JINNIE.

BEES

 I was really undecided as to what I was going to do for this challenge when I thought of bees and how important they are to our world wide eco-system.  It also allowed me to use some bright and happy colours in the flowers.  I have to give credit to my very artistic and talented grand-daughter who is studying art in her final year of school and is going onto University next year to further her studies in this subject.  She gave me the idea of incorporating the water, water lilies and water lily leaves to make it "pop" which it certainly did!  So a big thank you to her as well.  The bee wings were a challenge but in the end I used gold organza and outlined them with gold thread and used the gold thread for the veins in the wings as well.  It was fun to do and really enjoyable.

 

Sea sketch​ with seagull

​      I originally made this quilt for the Wilhelmina Barnes Graham challenge on our series on artists ( 12 By the Dozen ), but always felt it was a little boring, as it didn't have a focal point. I thought about maybe adding a seagull to it, but I never got round to it. So this was the ideal opportunity to try it out. The appliqued seagull is coloured with inktense.

Dove of peace

 

For this quilt , I’ve taken the dove of peace as my theme.  

The wings are rendered in a three-dimensional technique to capture the feeling of flapping in flight. 

Through this dove, I aim to bring serenity and joy to everyone!

Momo