I've just had a look at her landscape photos - and all I can say is that 'I'm glad I'm not number 1 on the list!' working from a quilt already made, as we have been experimenting with seems much easier.

Good luck with your designing muses, Maureen.

The photographer that supplied the photograph for the Chinese Whispers challenge has just started putting together a web site for her photographs. She has only just started so it is still very much a work in progress. THE photo might or might not be in it

http://photographybykimphillips.zenfolio.com

Beautiful, I agree

Lois, at first I thought this was 'Storm at Sea' but then realized that it's not. I think it's a composite of lots of different elements. It's a very lovely quilt isn't it? Wish I had made it.

Thanks, Rosemary!

Try these

http://www.blockcentral.com/index.shtml
http://waynekollingersquiltblog.blogspot.co.uk/ - plays with trad blocks - fun!
http://www.quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore.html - watch out for irritating music
http://www.ideas-for-quilting.com/freequiltblockpatterns.html
http://www.quilting-in-america.com/Quilt-Blocks.html
http://www.blockcrazy.com/List_of_Quilt_Block_Names_Arranged_Alphabetically.htm
http://www.quiltindex.org/browsepattern.php

Good luck

Thanks for all the compliments. I guess I am embracing the challenges. I have been reading Pam Holland's blog in preparation for taking a class from her in Huston. I am chopping at the bit to try some of her techniques and these challenges are presenting the opportunity. I normally choose bigger more time consuming projects and so doing little ones is very much fun for me.

I have just looked at Limbania's Choice and I love, love, love all those colors. I am wishing I knew more about the names of traditional blocks. Does anybody know of a resource you can use to identify block patterns? Does anybody know the name of the blocks in this week's challange? Just curious.

Lois - Your little quilt is so cute! You are just embracing this challenge! What a wonderful job you are doing!

Nancy

Hi Folks, sorry to be so quiet over the weekend - I was laid very low with a bad bad migraine which is just beginning to lift now. I didn't do anything physical with challenge quilt 200. When looking at it again last night I immediately thought of 'Birds in the air' because of the swirling wind effect of the quilting behind the bird. Would I have done another birds in the air quilt - probably not but I might have incorporated the block somewhere into the quilt. The quilting is really the thing that struck me more than anything so perhaps I would have had the tulips bending in the wind and a birds in the air border to represent the coming of summer and the return of the swallows.

Lois I love your little quilt - what a lot of work you have put into it.

Everybody enjoy your retreats, sigh!

Now I am off to look at the next quilt challenge.

Gotcha -and here is the link [url]see-quilts/quilt-gallery/[/url]

Me!

How about #1000522? Haven't seen the quilt yet. We''ll see what luck brings :shock:

Better go and check it out

Lois - that is awsome!

Maureen - have a good retreat. Same to everyone else swanning off for sewing hols.

So who is going to pick the next number?

Love your little quilt Lois especially the bluebirds Maybe it is the colours but it is very calming.

I am also off to a 4-day retreat on Monday but I can't take my CW with me maybe my Spools or even my HST Who knows, I will choose something at the weekend, too many ideas running around my mind at the moment. My sister is bringing her Candlewick quilt that she is making for her daughter. It looks fabulous

Great idea Lois and the title is very apt, it made me smile. Now when I look at baltimore type quilts with birds on them I shall be waiting for them to fly off