GREEN 2020

Viridis 

24" x 24"

Traditional foundation pieced strings

Simple diagonal-ish unmarked free motion 

quilting lines with Glide thread in Kiwi.

Reverdie

24" x 24"

Liberated strings foundation pieced

onto varying size blocks

Quilted with liberated unmarked free motion all over fans

using Glide thread in a dark green.

In the words of the Sesame Street learning song,

"one of these things is NOT like the other . . . "

Such a great way to show that there's

more than one way to use strings in a quilt.

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These are my entries for GREEN 2020,

the annual challenge for this coming November's

Davies Manor Quilt and Fiber Art Show.

Hopefully conditions will allow the show to be held . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

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“Stories move in circle. They don't move in straight lines. 
So it helps if you listen in circles.”
Deena Metzger

Introducing Reverdie

While I wait for  my shoulder and neck to recover

I pulled out the blocks for Viridis,

my WIP for this fall's GREEN challenge

at the Davies Manor Quilt Show.

Here they are on the design wall

along with yardage I chose for the backing.

I've been reading the posts on Instagram

from Jill Fisher (aka Pie Lady Quilts) 

and this particular quilt of hers named "Over There" 

totally grabbed my attention.

Hmmm . . . I'm already making 

a traditional string quilt for the challenge.

What if I make a second string quilt

but make it in a seriously liberated manner?!?

I made a quick sketch and came up with 

these not-all-the-same block shapes.

I'll use their reverse side as foundations

since this will be a 24" x 24" wall quilt

and I won't mind the extra weight.

I rummaged around and found the last trimmings from

the Tula Pink backing of Awaken for the accent strips.

Next I pulled out a selection of greens for the strings.

(note: since the March kitchen table quilt - Bonheur - 

is still waiting to be quilted, we've been using 

Awaken's reverse side on our table this month)

I pulled the Laurel Burch piece (lower left)

 from the pile and use it for the liberated snowballed corners.

I've named this quilt-in-making Reverdie

which essentially means the re-greening

that happens each spring.

Here's a better explanation from page 65 

in the book GREEN by Michael Pastoureau.

Finally I pulled out another piece of yardage

to use for the backing.

Oh, yes - this one will be FUN!

Quiltdivajulie

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“Who else wants to shut off their phone, drive to the beach, forget everything, and just listen to the sound of the waves crashing?”
Unknown

GREEN 2020 - Viridis Begins

Lynne gave me this book -  GREEN: The History of a Color

 by Michael Pastoureau for Christmas last year.

Little did she know that green was to be the subject of

this year's challenge for the Davies Quilt Show.

I really like the definition of VIRIDIS - 

"everything that is green or pertains to the color green."

Seems like a terrific name for a quilt.

Little Man kindly shared his cold with us

when he was here last weekend,

so I didn't feel much like standing and cutting squares

for the back of the 70s quilt (or much of anything else).

Instead, I pulled out these green strings

and some 1" (cut) strips of pink and started playing.

(because this will be a 24" x 24" wall quilt, I'm not 

bothered about the weight of sewing onto muslin squares

that will remain inside the finished quilt)

A few hours later I had sixteen 6" (finished) string blocks.

(I have put them away for the time being

until there is space to arrange them on the design wall,

so the layout you see here is not the final one)

Considering how gray and rainy 

and just plain dreary it was outdoors,

these happy greens definitely lifted my spirits.

Now if only they could cure a cold . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Robert McCloskey

Davies Quilt Show Wrap Up 2019

This was my spot during the three days of  

the 23rd Annual Davies Manor Quilt Show

for my Dumpster Diving display and demo.

(L to R:  DD3-Waterfall, 

DD2-Good Morning Sunshine,

and DD1-Willy Nilly)

Here are the same three quilts looking from the 

wall towards the center of the room.

On the back side were the other three completed DD quilts.

(L to R:  DD4-The Christmas Edition, 

DD5-Catharsis, 

and DD6-Lagniappe)

Over the course of the three days,

in between talking to show visitors

and explaining the scrappy process,

I stitched together the purple and green strips

and assembled 45 DD triangles in squares

that will become DD 7 - Respite.

(layout TBD)

I also sat and chain pieced solids

for what will become DD8 - Bella.

It was such fun to see peoples' eyes light up

with the possibilities of these 1.5" strip segments

as they realized they didn't need a pattern.

Elsewhere in the show area . . . 

sCRUMBtious hung in the 

machine pieced-machine quilted area.

Conundrum was in the Small Wall Quilt category . . .

. . . as was Mosaic.

MO Color Story was in the Large Wall Quilt category.

My cross stitch pillow and a scrappy Christmas runner

were in the Accessories category.

And April Showers was part of the smaller

but still amazing exhibit of BLUE challenge quilts

from earlier this year.

Next year the Davies Challenge will follow

the same 24" x 24" approach

but with the theme of GREEN.

I have three ideas and I'd like to make them all.

Time will tell!

Little Man made a marble bag

with the help of Miss Andrea 

and her hand crank sewing machine.

It was awesome to see the difference

in his ability and understand

from last year to this year.

And this big bag full of now-freshly-laundered fabric

was my take-away from various vendors.

The local Modern Guild had four tables of fabrics

for sale this year - their members clean out

their stashes and sell the bounty to 

raise funds for their dues and speakers -

so we all benefit.

I picked up a set of 31 hand pieced

churn dash/hole in the barn door blocks

that have been hand washed in Orvus soap

(three times before the water was reasonably clear)

and are now drying flat between towels.

And there are enough random scrap pieces

from the grab bags to start cutting 1.5" strips

for a "someday" spiderweb quilt.

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It was a busy and worthwhile weekend.

Next comes the "take down" day

and the "give back" day

and then this year's show will be done.

Quiltdivajulie