Guild Challenge

Our guild did the paint chip. The leader went to Lowe's and got color cards---the ones with 3 pages that has different values and shades of the 3 colors on the chip. We had to use at least 2 of the colors. All the cards were in a bag, we reached in and got one----no exchanges-you had to use the one you drew. Some used all the colors, some used as little as possible, such as batiks, etc. One went to Lowe's and got an actual small can of paint and painted a big flower in the main color. Fun Gen

Last year our guild did a "crayon challenge" The person in charge bought a brand new big box of crayons and put them in a paper bag. People who wanted to participate drew two crayons out of the bag without peeking. The person in charge wrote those two colors down. The quilt had to be made predominantly with those two colors, but I think another color could be added to the mix.

There were some really great quilts from that challenge.

marcella

First a question. How many might participate? Here's my idea.

Have one bag with a fat quarter, another with a paint chip (for a color fabric to add), and a third with a spool of thread. They would have to draw one from each and could add one more fabric to go with the first two. The thread would have to be used for quilting so it would show. Not just the piecing.

Just my idea.

Steve Alaska

Some great ideas! I especially like the one using a given thread. Thank you all, and keep them coming................

Hmm,

1. "Step outta the Box", do a technique you've never tried
2. "Who Are You?" do a self-portrait [boy! that can be fun, how each person chooses to interpret themselves!]
3. Poem challenge - take a poem to be interpreted, all use the same poem [or if a big guild, have 2 or 3 poems to choose from]
4. Have pe> OK, maybe I can start a discussion here. =A0Does anyone have any new idea= s for

Oh - I like number 4 especially. I must note that down for our group for the year after next. This year (for completion at our show next year) we are doing a 'tote bag' - minimum and maximum sizes specified - using a piece of challenge fabric (and boy will it be a challenge - very realistic olives in three colours). . In message , Ginger in CA writes

A medallion quilt you have never done before. Those can be as simple as old fashioned framed squares (which need not be simple at all), or as complex as gorgeous chrysanthemum. There are plenty of in betweens too.

A counterpoint challenge. Some blocks that are not traditional counterpoint patterns lend themselves to it very well indeed.

Secondary patterns. Use traditional pieced blocks that form an allover pattern, but make the secondary pattern they form the focus. Harder than it sounds.

Yellow, red, and blue will do... Can you make a quilt using nothing but the three primary colors? Of course you can!

NightMist

My guild did the "paint chip" challenge - the piece could use light, medium and dark values of the chosen colour plus black and white. We called it our "monochrome challenge" and the results were great!

Another way to do it is for people to get their own paint chips - the restriction is that the colours had to match their initials....so I would need an "A" and an "H". This was done at another guild and again with great results.

Alternatively is to set a theme. IMHO it helps if it is very broad. We did "Food" one year. Most people stayed with something edible.... I did "Food for Thought" with a stack of books LOL

HTH Allison

Olives! I immediately thought of a stylized olive tree with the (most likely???) over-sized olives hanging on it. And who on rctq was so very clever to make a Drunkard's Path using polka dots? (Sorry, my life got crazy again and I can't remember anything but I

*loved* the idea and the resulting mini-quilt!) Using the oval olives for a lop-sided Drunkard's Path could get very interesting.

Have fun, Pat!

Leslie & The Furbabies > Oh - I like number 4 especially. =A0I must note that down for our group

Again, more great ideas. I'll be well-prepared for the meeting! Thanks everyone!

I have a blank on ideas just yet! I have till next April >gOlives! I immediately thought of a stylized olive tree with the

Well, they sell novelty trees and shrubs now that produce assorted colors of flowers or fruit. You can get a Rose of Sharon or Butterfly Bush that flowers in three different colors, or an apple tree that produces three different kinds of apples.

Why not an olive tree that has three different colors of fruit on it? If anybody asks, you are experimenting with grafting!

NightMist

Great idea! And I have once seen a great tree pattern. Thanks NM. . In message , NightMist writes

Howdy!

Quite often olive trees produce fruit in more than just one color. (Google images shows examples.) Like other fruits & veggies, the produce develops at different stages & in different colors, on the same branch.

How disparate are these 3 colors, Pat? Greens, reds & purples show up on olive trees in many hues.

...Did someone say something about polka dot olives?

Cheers!

Ragm> Great idea! And I have once seen a great tree pattern.

Thanks Sandy. I'm getting a real feel for this now. They are exactly the colours you mention. The last fabric challenge we had was a fabric covered with multi-coloured bubbles, for a cushion. I made an elaborate border around an appliquéd champagne bottle; bondaweb-ed the piece of bubble fabric and cut out as many whole ones as there were; then stuck them in a spray pattern coming out of the top of the bottle!!! . In message , Sandy E writes