Forest Floor 2020

We decided to continue our annual challenge in hopes COVID would not derail this year’s round of shows.

• Landscape format/horizontal orientation.
• Height—31”, + or – one inch. Bear in mind that the AQS minimum is 30 inches.
• Width–anywhere from 36 to 52 inches.
• Create an interpretation of what you could find while walking through the forest. Embellishments or use of fibers is encouraged. Any techniques, any season.

“Forest Floor” — Diane Tennant

“Feathers” — Linda Fleschner

“Forest Floor” —  Judy Valentino

“Life On the Forest Floor” — Linda Sweek

“Red Fern” — Linda Fleschner

“Lone Log” –Kathleen Irons Sweeney

“Roots and Leaves” — Maribeth Schmit

Tila Baumann

“Tiny Trees, Large Leaves” — Kathleen Hughes

“Wood Louse” — Linda Fleschner

“Wood Violet” — Linda Fleschner

Supporting Words 2018 Challenge

Create a quilt using any theme, but use text as a background element, not as the main design feature. Any technique. Size: 36 X 52” (+-1”), vertical format. Quilts due at the MarQ March 2018 meeting.

“Dictionary Tangle”,  Kathy Downie

“Floating”, Linda Sweek

“Leslie and Gene in Gay Paree”, Kathleen Irons Sweeney

“Mystical Garden”, Kathleen Hughes

“Autumn: Behold with Gladness” Linda Fleschner

“Red”, Mary Ellen Heus

“Chattering Shattering”, Kathie Boucher

“Explore Serenity”, Judy Valentino

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Not So Mellow Yellow 2017

“Create an art quilt, any subject you wish, using yellow. Your piece must be at least 50% yellow, and read yellow. You may use the full range of values. Use of any green yellows or orange yellows would be in addition to pure yellow values, not part of the 50%. Vertical format, 31-32” wide by 41-42” long. Any style, any technique.”

I Love Yellow, Jane Walton

A Month of Sun Days, Linda Fleschner

Yellow Brick Road, Maribeth Schmit

Yellow Tree, Mary Ellen Heus

Autumn Ginkgo Splender, Diana Dunaway

Embrace Me, Deb Kinder

Our Yellow Magnolia, LisaAnne Giesfildt

Spring’s Future Canvas, Kathy Downie

Bright, Shinning as the Sun, Kathleen Hughes

Pointy Objects, Kathie Boucher

The Gift of an Ordinary Day, Nancy Linz

Cottonwoods on the Rio Grande, Maribeth Schmit

The Green Flash, or Not, Judy Valentino

Thirteen and a Blue Box, Kathleen Irons Sweeney

“Zen:Strength”, Judy Zoelzer Levine

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Art Deco 2016

Create a quilt using design elements of Art Deco.
Any colors, 31″ x 50″, vertical orientation. No borders. Due at the March 2016 meeting

ADD: Art Deco Door by Kathy Downie

Vogue by Diana Dunaway

Miami Moon by Linda Fleschner

Milwaukee’s Night Light by Kathleen Hughes

Studio 15W by Sonja Pavlik

Le Dame Moderne by Kathleen Irons Sweeney

You Decide 2016 by Judy Valentino

Forty Wonderful Years by Chris Lynn Kirsch

Shape Exploration – December 2015

This year’s small challenge was Shape Exploration: Choose one basic geometric shape and explore it. The shape of the quilt was up to the maker. Maximum size 31″ in any direction.

Rain Chains by Linda Fleschner

Magenta Pathways by Kathy Downie

Triangles Gone Crazy by Judy Valentino

The Humble Circle by Deb Kinder

Circle Go Round by Lisa Giesfelt

Isosceles Overlap by Chris Lynn Kirsch

Black & White Plus One

Use only black and white fabrics plus one other single color. This is meant to be visually high impact. You can use as few or as many fabrics as you want, prints and tones on tones are okay as long as they READ black, white and the single chosen plus color in hue, tone and value. Your black should not drift into gray or your white drift into cream/beige unless you want gray or beige to stand as your third color. Black & white should be the highest ratio; any amount of color up to but NOT more than one third of the total surface. Style, subject matter and technique is the choice of the artist. Size is 32″ square (+/- 1 “).

Lisa Giesfeldt, Higgs Boson

 

Nancy Linz, Endangered

Kathie Boucher, Noise

Kathleen Hughes, String Theory

Sonja Pavlik, Wakiya Thunderbird

Linda Flescher, Midnight Carousel

Diana Dunaway, Let It Bee

Mary Ellen Heus, Into the Woods

Judy Zoelzer Levine, Intersections

Judy Zoelzer Levine, Pods

Suzanne Riggio, A Star Spangled Banner

Chiyoko Bermant, Mis[s]fit

Jane Walton, Going Green

Judy Valentino, Coy Koi

Johanna Fritz, Off Kilter

Maribeth Schmidt, Market Day

Chris Kirsch, Golden Dusk

3-D Abodes – 2014 Small Challenge

Construct a 3 dimensional “abode”. The only size restriction is that it must be able to fit on an 18″ diameter pedestal. Any type of abode, any fiber technique.

The Old Woman in the Shoe by Judy Valentino

Flower by Sandy Hendricks

English Cottage by Nancy Linz

Muse Abode by Deb Kinder

Private Party by Sonja Pavlik

Where Have the Bees Gone by Ardene Brown

Kathleen Irons-Sweeney

Bird’s Nest by Sandy Hendricks

Eiffel Tower by Jane Misslich

Gnome Home by Chris Lynn Kirsch

Heavy Metal – 2014

Represent the theme in any way (music, chrome on motorcycles, musicians tools, etc.). The quilt must contain some metal, or have fabric that looks like metal. 38″ wide x 31″.

1932 Duesy by Linda Reuss Benson

Beautiful Beast by Judy Valentino

Cu 29 by Sonja Lambach Pavlik

Dark But Not Empty, Chaotic But Not Random by Chiyoko Bermant

Frenzy at Fort Knox by Jane Hyer Walton

Heavy Metal in Flight by Chris Lynn Kirsch

Mercury Rising by Terri Sankovitz

Transcontinental by Kathleen Hughes

The Bells – Call to Evening Vespers by Nancy Linz