Wednesday, June 9, 2010

look at the view I woke up to this morning!!!

Of course when I went to go outside to the deck to take a photo or 2, the ranchslider door was frozen shut!!! so I had to lean out the window...

we have been rather busy over the long weekend - Queen's Birthday weekend is historically the Masters South Island Rowing Reggatta, where lots of middle aged "crazies" get together and compete in a fun way - yep on the lake in their rowing boats, sculls etc, freezing cold 'n' all. I reneged this weekend and stayed at home playing on the quilty toy, as I had several quilts that I wanted to get done for a few friends, but I did enjoy the Sunday evening dinner and dance, oh what fun!!

On Saturday, our local quilt group held an exhibition,


some months ago, we set ourselves a challenge, and 10 from our group decided to take this challenge on,

we all started with the same group of fabrics,

each person brought along 3 strips 21/2" x WOF,

so we ended up with 30 random strips -

our own personalised jelly roll you might say,

we were allowed to add only one other fabric, for sashings/borders etc,

and look at all the different interpretations,

absolutely everyone has done something very different -

such a lot of creativity... how amazing!


do you belong to a group, and what do you do??

have a fun week,

cheers,



p.s. hmmm my signature seems to have disappeared again, strange things happening here in blogland - I don't always seem to be getting updates for everyones blog on my blogroll either....

9 comments:

Jo in TAS said...

Beautiful mountain view! Your challenge idea is great and very different outconmes!! great work!!

Deb said...

Gosh, with a view like that it will be a bueatiful day down there hun. Those quilts look fabulous and all so different.
Wish we had a crisp view like that instead of the city view sometimes, its so much nicer.
hugs Deb

loulee said...

I can think of no better place to be.....under a quilt in progress, looking at those mountains. With or without snow would do me.

Elyte said...

Fabulous view. I love the challenge quilts. I really enjoy seeing how different people interpret the same thing. Hope all is on target for you.

Chookyblue...... said...

bbbrrrr..........nice view but cold.........

amazing how all the quilts look so different even though they all started with the same fabrics.....

Sue-Anne said...

Wow, you live pretty close to the snow! My snowboarding son would be thrilled to be able to see the mountain from home. It has been snowing here on the mountains and we can feel the chill in the air where we live.
Love all your challenge quilts, such variety in interpretation!

Simone de Klerk said...

Lovely view and great to see so many different quilts made with the same fabrics. Incredible, what a design and one different fabric can do!

Micki said...

Lovely view and I do love all of the pics of the exhibition!
Micki

suzitee said...

Those quilts just make me smile...what a talented group you have there! Amazing how many interpretations you can get...they look awesome.
Brrrr...your view makes me feel cold!