Photos of the Week - Week 24
Critique Group Challenge: Week 24, Radial Symmetry Photo by Betty Gott Click to view a larger image Betty says: By increasing the exposure, I was surprised to see this plant looked as if it had been painted. Otherwise no changes were made except to crop it and give it a subdued frame. |
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 Stars and Stripes Forever
Designed by Ricky Tims
Made by Cyndi McChesney
Many moons ago when I was just starting to quilt, I joined a block exchange group at my local guild in St. Louis. When it was my turn to share a pattern, I designed my own pieced star block—but there was a twist. The points of the stars were in the adjoining blocks. At the time, I loved big prints o I gave the guidelines to use large prints, yellow in certain patches, and red in certain patches. I provided the blue and lavender fabrics. That quilt ... |
 Itchy's Marvelous Dish
by Kat Bowser, quilted by Ricky Tims
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While Kat has a degree in fashion merchandising, her career has been that of a professional singer. She's never made a quilt and never really seemed to want to. I've known her for such a long time that she's fallen in love with quilting and she was the brain behind using a quilt as inspiration for a story (see Lizzy Albright and the Attic Window, the fantasy novel we co-wrote).
During her recent visit she asked about making a ... |
Photos of the Week - Week 23
Critique Group Challenge: Week 23, On the Fence Photo by Julie Titus Click to view a larger image Julie says: Downpour of raindrops splashes off the fence and makes fireworks. |
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Photos of the Week - Week 22
Critique Group Challenge: Week 22, Abandoned Photo by Dennis Crawford Click to view a larger image Dennis says: Our beautiful, Nationally protected, Audobon bird sanctuary is a lovely place for a quiet walk, and bird watching. However not everyone sees it that way. There's no explanation for people who decide it's there for their personal trash dump. Nothing like an abandoned water bottle to beautify the place. Construction workers? Visiting grandkids? Who knows? What a pity |
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 It Will Be Green Again
by Daphne Greig and friends
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Most you you will know that in July of 2018, a devastating and very large wildfire ravaged south central Colorado. The spring fire grew to 109,000 acres and on July 2, blazed through my little 40 acres of paradise, located in a high elevation fir forest. The fire literally came within feet of the house which was miraculously spared. The experience was life changing.
A few months after the wildfire a parcel arrived. Inside was this quilt. It was a labor of ... |
Photos of the Week - Week 21
Critique Group Challenge: Week 21, Silhouettes Photo by Chris McCarthy Click to view a larger image Chris says: Silhouettes on the Shade. This is Kerry and PJ, with mommy getting a kiss. PJ, my daughter, is due in two weeks. And I could not pass up the opportunity to take a shot of her very pregnant shape. This started out as a solo shot of PJ. But Kerry wanted to get into the act. We took a number of pictures with various poses but this was my favorite. |
Photos of the Week - Week 20
Critique Group Challenge: Week 20, Multiplicity Photo by Marion Seasholtz Click to view a larger image Marion says: Soooo, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one! A dear family friend is playing chess with Dad 3 times a week. They often wear hats, and always have a great time. My Dad has the board set up hours before Peter gets there. I tried this on Wed but I had some issues with my camera, and although it came out ok I wanted to try again. Peter is a great ... |
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Photos of the Week - Week 19
Critique Group Challenge: Week 19, Forced Perspective Photo by Bruce Hinde Click to view a larger image Bruce says: Last years spring crop in the background that is just about ripe and small bud of a winter variety that has just come up. They should do well this spring if we can keep them watered and the grasshoppers don't get them like they did two years ago. All the Harleys were killed in the late frost we had 3 weeks ago. But, like the Denver Broncos always say... "Wait till next year!"
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Alvin and his mates may be cute - but the real guys have me snorting fire! It’s one thing to fight and struggle to grow a garden in zone 3 at nearly 9000 ft. elevation, but it’s even worse when the chipmunks and voles destroy all my progress and I watch all the money I spent on plants go into their bellies. I’m open to any and all suggestions to rid these pesky varmints. So far, live traps, essential oils, coffee grounds, and garlic/cayenne tea have been used.
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Photos of the Week - Week 17
Critique Group Challenge: Week 17, Cracks Photo by Mary degreef Click to view a larger image Mary says: Getting hot here in Florida. These is just a few cracks in a big pile of dirt on the farm. I put a photo of fire on top, layer masked that all out, then brushed back in the cracks. I put the fire on top so the photo would have the meta data for this week. Used a filter from Topaz.
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Photos of the Week - Week 16
Critique Group Challenge: Week 16, Triangles Photo by Karen Watts Click to view a larger image Karen says: This pretty blue spruce is in our neighbor's yard. It's very symmetrical, but I made it more so by doing a mirror montage. Then I lost track of the various filters I applied in Topaz. This morning I noticed the triangle fabric and decided it would make a good background.
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Photos of the Week - Week 15
Critique Group Challenge: Week 15, In Motion Photo by Jess Thompson Click to view a larger image Jess says: Yesterday, there was lots of land-based in-motion but nothing in the water. Today, the weather is forecast to downhill for 10 days so I went to the beach one more time. Today there was heavy surf and six surfers. I shot over 250 photos. After going through them and applying LR corrections I was down to 130. I liked this one, with the surfer in the curl, the best.
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Capriccio by Ricky Tims
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H 16.75” x W 16.75”
Statement: A capriccio (also Caprice) is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. This free-form composition seemed to follow that theme with movement and repetition. While many of my quilts are created “improvisationally”, this particular quilt is not improvised. It was created with templates and yet, the process is so easy and forgiving.
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Photos of the Week - Week 14
Critique Group Challenge: Week 14, Collection Photo by Debra Gagnon Click to view a larger image Debra says: Oooo, those in the know do not need a caption. Possibilities await!
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Granny's Tied Quilt
by Bertie Newsom Hudgeons (c. 1964)
Watching Lonesome Dove this past week (the mini-series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry), There was a scene with a quilt that was very similar to this quilt made by my Granny. I remember Granny making this quilt from trousers, corduroy, suitings, and other heavy fabrics. It has a wool army blanket inside, and flannel back. I helped her tie it. I’m sure I only tied four or five ties, but still, it's part of my memory. The quilt is heavy. I tell folks that ... |
Photos of the Week - Week 13
Critique Group Challenge: Week 13, Rhymes With Tune Photo by Gigi Kandler Click to view a larger image
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