Hey Betty Jo and Teri see you're on the Newsletter with the challenge

Well, Heather, as your names implies, many of us are 'learning as we go"

crocus999 wrote:
oh my goodness, that is too funny about your son and his wife! I can only imagine (my grandfather is an engineer; my grandmother? an artist!)

But I am very sorry you had to delete all your artsy-fartsy photos from that trip! I have had to do the same; never any fun, and now I definitely carry an extra memory card or two, just in case. Your poor lost photos sound wonderful....maybe you can do an image search on-line to see if any similar photos from that area show up? At least to aid in this challenge? Not as fun as a return trip, but perhaps more feasible...

loise98 wrote:
now, Lois, stop it! You are sending my mind down other directions, thinking of different architecture here that would be stunning to do in blue......there's this little old town we take all our visitors to see, as it is well preserved and has all of the best Brazil has to offer....including white-washed walls, blue doors & shutters, clay roof tiles, very old stone roads, the ocean to one side and lush rain forest to the other......yet I do not need another quilt idea! LOL!

Lotti, please say you'll do something similar so I won't be tempted to go down that particular road for this particular challenge....

I was in Switzerland a few years ago, and took loads and loads of pictures of architectural things. Doors, windows, fences,winding staircases, a sea of roof tops, lots and lots of geometric, and in my mind, artistic shots. Then, near the end of my visit, my memory card got full (yes, I've learned my lesson), and in order to take other needed pictures, I had to delete all the artsy-fartsy pictures. So, I'll just have to try to juggle my memory. ( or go back to Switzerland..)
Or I could just do a gingerbread house and use lots of large white rick-rack.

BTW I have a funny story of an engineer (my son) and an artist/chef (my soon-to-be DIL) making a gingerbread house when they were just getting to know one another. There was a protractor vs a spatula mini-war! Then are now still married since 10 years.

lotti wrote:
Lotti, This post brought to mind pictures I've seen of buildings in the Greek Isles. I see white, white walls with very bright blue as accents. Was the blue the roof or the shutters. I think that in my mind I see clay tiles on the roof. Then there is the blue, blue sea as background. The colors of the Greek flag are there too. I can see why you would be looking at photos from Greece. I wonder what pictures are emerging in your mind.

lotti wrote: I would have thought that detesting icing would make you the ideal person to make it - more would end up on the cake, than in you

Other than that you could sew one with lots of Tom Russell bling

great idea - but:
i don't like gingerbread
all my attempts at making proper gingerbread houses have ended up in a sticky mess (absolutely detest icing! - not good for a gingerbread house manufacturer)
so - leave that one up to someone more suited to the task

With all this talk going from architecture to food and back again, shouldn't someone be making a gingerbread house?

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Rita, i was considering the posibility of participating too and was wondering if Talavera Tiles (Mexican), could be used as inspiration so, I found this:
"Talavera Tile Design Considerations
Sensitivity to the architectural "look" of the installation is an absolute necessity when using Talavara tiles. The scale, mass, and general character of the space or object being enhanced by the use of these tiles will dictate what particular pattern, color, quantity and size of Talavera tile to use so as to maximize the aesthetic impact of this particular architectural element." (color highlight is mine)

We'll probably have to wait until BJ returns from the PA show to hear what she thinks.

By the way, did you see this last year? [url]daily-blog/107-just-for-fun/14787-the-star-of-david-quilt-the-cosmati-floor-janet-cook[/url] Impressive!

Virtual parties are all the rage these days, I hear!
Tiled floors sound very very very architectural to me, just think of all those ancient mosaics, or the tiled walls in the Turkish mosques....
Whenever I ponder on this challenge I decide I've first got to go through my photo albums from old trips to Greece and to istanbul...
My new blue fabric for this challenge? Wasn't really planned, but as I have always wanted to make a blue quilt, I've been buying lots of blues this year... But yes, an architectural blue idea is taking shape in my brain... Now to get it out of there before it dissolves

We can all make and bring a recipe that we submitted for the Recipe Book that goes with the Reels Exchange, ( or...intended to submit) for the party at Lois' place.

Is is possible to have a virtual party?

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
oooh, I can answer that! My idea is based on a cobblestone sidewalk, which I likened to a tiled floor, and BJ said it is totally fine for this challenge. Which is good, 'cause using this challenge as a reason to work on a project already on the list is much better for me than thinking up a *new* project to add to my already too-long list.

You can scroll back a few pages of replies to see it from BJ's mouth/fingers if you like And -- can't wait to see what you come up with!

EDIT: well, I went back and I didn't compare the cobblestone to tiled floor in my question to BJ, and her answer just said "tiled elements as you've described them would definitely be architectural....", so maybe I'd better wait and see what she says on interior tiled floors before I answer for her. Just in case! (but I think they'd count....)

As for the stash-sharing, food-eating, extended sleep-over at Lois' gorgeous home, count me in! I'll bring all my stash, such as it is, and we can all share. Except that most of my stash is project specific, so you'll have to first help me figure out how much fabric I actually need vs. how much I bought (since I bought too much, I'm sure). LOL!

BJ I have a question. DH and I were in Dublin today wandering around St. Patrick's and Christchurch Cathedrals and we found the most beautiful tiled floors and stained glass windows. The question is this - although we both agreed that the stained glass windows are an architectural feature we were not sure that the tiled floors would be considered the same. Is a tiled floor part of the decor or part of the architecture? I had it in my head that I might do a quilt based on these floor tiles but don't know if this would fit the remit for this challenge. What say you?