Our next challenge

This series is proving to be fun in that the theme is wide open for each person to choose.  So, Beth, would you please draw a name 'out of a hat' from the following names:  Jinnie, Phillida, Momo, Patricia, Hilary.

Please post that name on this blog soon so that they can announce the theme for pieces to be revealed on 30th September.

Hilary

High Ball

 Apologies for mine being very simple but it came to me early on and I shared it with Dianne, so I stuck with it.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought - feathers! - when they first read Beth's 'cocktails' theme.

Very cheeky.  There is a definition of what a highball cocktail is and how it is served, along with a list of familiar and not so familiar highballs, and a highball glass with cocktail and ice cubes, all quilted in the background.

Raw edge applique, free machine quilting, satin stitched edge.  18" x 12"

Thanks for a fun theme, Beth.

Hilary

RUSTY NAIL

 My original idea was squashed when I came across by accident all my stash of rust dyed fabric which cried out 'rusty nail' so here is my inspiration....... 

Pieced, applique and paint formed the composition of this piece.  For those that don't know the cocktail Rusty Nail (like I did not), there are a few stories as to how it got it's name e.g. the drink mix was stirred with a rusty nail / after the rusty nails holding the Drambuie boxes together / the golden tones of the finished drink. 

So happy that I have used up some of my fabric which is a mix between what Hilary and I had fun creating and what Alison had dyed and gifted me. 

HAPPY HOUR

 Instead of placing an orange or lemon slice on the side of the martini glass I decided to place a music CD on the edge as I wanted to give it a bit of a twist hence the music notes above.  So what more can we have but a Beach, Sunset and music!  I used angelina for the CD and found something for the glass - I can't say it is fabric but something I was given for my stash ages ago and so at last it has become useful and works well to depict the glass.

Cocktail

 

This is my cocktail work . Inspired by dirty martini, I used the dyed embroidery threads as the background to create the atmosphere of a bar, and the blurred fabric to present  the drink - dirty martini.

Cheers~~~         

                         Momo

Cocktails

I chose Tequila Sunrise as my cocktail hence the yellow background against which I placed the cocktail glass cherries and orange pieces . The glass is covered with netting in order to get a shine. I felt it needed to be outlined in order to show up more. Here it is:

Cocktail Teaser

    

I'm afraid my quilt is going to be a little late.  I've been working on it most days, but despite that, it's taking me longer than planned. At the same time I've been doing a course with Cas Holmes via Fibre Arts Take Two over the last two months, and I have been really enjoying it. It has enabled me to overcome my problems with freemachining: I will probably be freemachining everything in sight from now on! I gave up on using my newer machine, as I've never managed to get it to freemachine for me and in fact it had put me off. Instead I dragged out my old mechanical machine, which had been stuck in the attic for the last 16 years. I didn't think it would work after not having been used for so long, but with a good oiling it's working perfectly.