Hello peeps! Sorry I have not been much of a presence lately - my kids have had flu...or so we thought! Turns out my 18 year old daughter has Glandular Fever (Mono to you Americans). Oh joy, a month to six weeks out of school and then 3 months without any physical exercise. I will be completely mental by then My son is fine and back to school.

Love the idea Rosemary. And it's interesting that there is no information connected with 'Red Fury' so we can reinterpret it any way we like. Looking forward to seeing what everybody comes up with. It will be interesting to see what we all find.

and I even managed to find it! Great idea to get practice in and look at things differently.

scottishquilter wrote: OK I've lost a month somewhere Yes I did mean October 8th, as for the quilt I just thought of a number in the Quilt Gallery and then went and looked at it afterwards, and it is the Red Fury quilt.

We could take it in turns picking a number , and then going and working on ideas that we can talk about, and anyone can join in

I think it is a good idea. I think it would be fun. I am looking at quilt #1000100. Is that the one. There was not #100.

I think it is a brilliant idea. It will get everyone’s creative juices running on something other than THE quilt. It will be very interesting seeing how everyone’s mind works, what directions they take and what colours they choose, how they came up with a design. AND we will be able to TALK about this one. Looking forward to this.

Two things Rosemary - you mean October 8th : and so we are all on the same page - are you thinking of page 942
Red Fury Quilt #: 1000100 Added on 01/02/2007:?: :

Or page 4 if you check the box - oldest first

I really like your idea, Rosemary, because, prima facie, it does not appear to undermine the spirit of the agreement we made in adhering to the rules, yet gives us all an opportunity to play with the general principles of the challenge prior to our turn coming. It provides a really great lesson and we can all add to our experience with what we learn from each other. How do you feel about it, Leader Maureen?

Here is an idea - how about we all go and look at quilt number 100 in the Quilt Gallery. Work on how we would take it for inspiration and then report back with our ideas/sketches next Monday 8 September. Maureen is exempt (unless she really wants to ) and we will have design exercises that we can talk about after the design process has happened.

loise98 wrote:
Lois, as long as you are not giving away anything about the design or how you came by it or how you are going to make the CW quilt, I don’t see any problem in just saying you have a design in mind and have chosen the fabrics for it, you can’t really elaborate on that.

I know it is going to be extremely hard for us all not to talk about the quilt on this and other forums but I am sure that after reading the rules (everyone please read them again and again especially before you start your challenge) everyone appreciates that it would spoil it for everyone else and the whole concept of the challenge and could possibly lead people into a design that is not their own idea hearing about how other people came to their design.

Like you, I have been trying to get things finished before the photo arrives but not everything is finished. I am going to a 4-day retreat near the end of the month but as two other people are in the challenge as well, I can’t take my CW quilt with me. I think, to be on the safe side, it is going to be a case of it only being worked on behind closed doors.

Yes little quilts is the way to go. One for AAQI and one for a gift.

HU is him upstairs

Beautiful fabric colors Wendy!!! Lots of fun and anticipation to see how they turn, isn't it? Great minds think alike don't they?
I've been watching Laura and Frieda's lessons on fused appliqué and was thinking of using my hand dyes to work on one of those projects . So now, what HU stands for?

Lois, what a great idea to start practicing on coming up with possible quilt designs from photos or other quilts. And also perhaps making some AAQI quilts like Rosemary suggests.

Got to love this forum! There's always great to share and get.

Love those fabrics, want me to go out and buy dyes.... But no, not allowed till next spring. Would actually be a great project for next spring when I plan to visit my parents in Canada. I know my mom would love to get in on the act, and there I would have SPACE! A garden hose for rinsing, and a washing machine to use whenever I need it.
Yup, think I just made that plan definite!

When I took my course last year they told us that it was really difficult to get really bright and true reds... They suggested doing two or three repeats on those, I.e. do the complete process three times starting with fresh dye each time. Most of the other colors were ok, but remember you can alway dye over a fabric you did not like. Or over a print you are not happy with, I have a heart print that I washed today and the red hearts really bled into the white background... Will rewash and then put in a hot pink dye bath... Think that would look great, even if the bleeding remains, it would make an interesting effect on the pink background, and my cousins daughter was lookin for a red and pink fabric, this might just be it! :0)

PosyP wrote:
Yes, Rosemary, that would be good to do it for AAQI quilts. But I was thinking of just letting your mind design things that aren't necessarily going to be made. I need to just go through the process of asking myself where would that photo or quilt inspire me to go. Practice not letting myself get stumped for ideas.

There you go Wendy - easy wasn't it! and great fun too you've got some nice pieces there.

My Dh sometimes refers to me as DB - Dearly Befuddled, but methinks that the boot is definitely on the other foot with that one!

Lois, I like your idea of practising thinking of how you would take a quilt and being inspired by it, we could practise the technique for little AAQI quilts (easier to finish than full sized pieces), in fact I think I might try it myself

Wendy, your fabrics turned out so well! I would be so ready to cut into them!