Wow, Rita! It was well worth the wait. It's stunning! Any thought of entering it in FoQ? If it's too late for this year (I don't know the timing), then there's always next year. I think this quilt should be shared.

Rita,
Wow!
I watched her DVD and although she makes it look easy, I'm sure it isn't. Your color transitions in thread and borders has a nice flow to them. Take a bow!! Applause.

Luann

Well its taken me a lot longer to finish my CW challenge from last time - Inspired by Libby - but I have finally finished it.

A slightly wonky whole quilt

detailed corner

and detailed centre
I have named it 'The Golden Thread' for Libby Lehman. I am very pleased with how it turned out and it will look perfect up on my living room wall.

I'm running a giveaway of some hand dyed fabric over on my blog
www.letscreatetoday.blogspot.com
Just leave a comment to be entered

Good luck to everyone
Luann

Beautiful entries Wendy & Nancy. I didn't have much trouble deciding on my favourite book The Three Musketeers - I just couldn't decide how to illustrate it (amongst other things).

Nancy, I love it! I collect children's books. How'd I miss that one? Got to get it! And the quilt is absolutely terrific. Great work. First time I peeked at your blog. Now I've got to catch up with that.

"What are the little circles on either side of her tail trail? Are they meant to be turtle eggs? Are they thread circles or buttons of some sort? Can't quite make them out. "

I say/guess they are the turtle's footprints in the snow.

Luann, I knew you'd like the challenge.

Wendy - Its absolutely gorgeous! I agree it'd be a wonderful card photo. Kudos to your quilt group.

Nancy - Love your Murtle I do have a memory of "Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth". Fun see the process on your blog!

Barb

Wow! Wonderful entries Wendy and Nancy!

Wendy, your pansies are so pretty. I see you whizzed around the outside....

Nancy, love your little piece. The fabrics, colors, and of course the turtle.

What creative minds you both have!

Thanks for sharing!

geneva

Nancy brilliant. The background technique is inspired. I'm going to have to find the book and learn about the turtle.

Thank you for the encouraging comments. These challenges are a good place to try out something different on a small scale. Lois bondaweb is a fusible with backing paper. It's always seperating from the paper (usually a bad thing) so it was easy to peel off and lay over the flowers.

In its simplicity of color and design, "My Murtle" speaks an awe-inspiring tale! Your turtle looks like it has traveled from the depths of the ocean up to see the light! Love how you combined Noriko Endo and Susan Carlson concepts and made this beautiful piece your own. So beautiful! Congratulations, Nancy!

Hi Rita - The little circles are supposed to represent her footprints. They are just made with black thread.

Hi LuAnn - It's actually supposed to be in Antarctica, so it is water and snow rather than sand (not important, but thought I'd mention that). The snow and water aren't actually pieced. Instead, I chopped up some fabrics into small pieces and set them on the fusible side of some heavyweight fusible interfacing, and then ironed them in place, gluing some pieces that were small or overlapped others too much. Then put tulle on top and stitched the fabric in place. You can see the details of what I did on my blog. There's a link in my original post, but I should probably test it to make sure that it works.

Thanks for your kind comments!!

loise98 wrote:
Lois,
I accept your encouragement and I'm in for these challenges.

Luann

Nancy,
I love your turtle and I'm inspired by your piecing of the sand and water. Did you piece improvisationally, or plan it out?

I am amongst such talented people!

Luann

It's fabulous Nancy. Love the turtle and her surroundings. What are the little circles on either side of her tail trail? Are they meant to be turtle eggs? Are they thread circles or buttons of some sort? Can't quite make them out. Looks like a fun story.