My hand tendonitis is pretty good. It’s not completely gone, but is much better. Now I just have to get motivated to work on the Halloween quilt. I have been making bread again and my hand has been OK doing that.
While I have been taking it easy in terms of working on quilts I’ve been thinking about all the art challenges that I have participated in. Seems that I have done a lot of them. I guess I must like the challenge of coming up with a quilt that fits a particular word or idea. Years ago I belonged to a quilt guild and I never did the quilt challenges that others participated in. I wonder why I never did them.
In 2012 I found an online challenge group that made a 12 inch by 12 inch quilt every other month. A word was chosen and you had to make a quilt representing that word. I was in the group for 2 years. I don’t remember the words and have given away most of the quilts. Here they are for 2012 and 2013. Apparently we only had 5 challenges in 2013.
When the 12 by 12 wasn’t enough of a challenge I found an online 15 inch by 15 inch challenge group in 2013. It was basically the same process as the 12 by 12 group. I did that for 2013 and only one in 2014. I dropped out of that group because one member was especially insulting of other people’s work. She never specified who she was insulting, but I took it personally. Also I was taking Elizabeth Barton’s year long master class in 2014. Each month was a lesson and a challenge. That was already a lot to deal with plus I was still working.
The master class in my mind was also an art challenge. Each month we had to make a quilt that fit the lesson. The lessons were things like line, monochromatic, value, motion, or a quilt based on a photograph. We made 10 quilts that year. We received the lesson on the first of the month, had to submit 3 sketches by the 10th, have it blocked out by the 20th, and finished by the end of the month. I still have all of those quilts. Here’s my summary of the class. It was definitely important for my art quilt development.
https://chrissquiltinguniverse.blogspot.com/2014/12/this-years-master-class.html
Since I retired and joined a local art alliance I have taken on the challenges for the recycle art show. You have to make an art piece from recycled material that fits a certain word. I have really enjoyed those. My favorites have been those made from plastic bags or my dad’s drafting vellums. I love the first 2 below.
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| From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits |
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| Dad Built Pittsburgh |
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| Abandoned Cement Works |
This year I also did the word challenge for a local art museum. My word was wonder. This was made of fabric.
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| Warhol’s Lunch |
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