challenges

Challenge yourself.
At the last NYC MOD guild meeting, some of us participated in a scrap swap...
Want to break out of sewing rut? Play in someone else scraps!


We are featured on the modern guild page today! go see!

Our goal was to take the scraps and make anything out of them
to bring back to show at our next meeting.

I took the scraps out of the bag, and thought,
Wow, these really are different
then anything I use...
(that's a good thing)

Yesterday I was inspired by Rayna's post...
She sent out some old blocks to a bunch of people
and asked them to rework them in any way.
Being familiar with Rayna's work, I had an idea I wanted to play with.

There was one piece of fabric in the bag that really inspired me.
a bight blue wax print,
and I knew that was what I wanted to show off in my piece...

Wax prints make me so happy.
they dance, they tell stories, the move and shake!
so that is the direction I wanted to work with...

Using curves from my own style of work, making fabric with all the lights with strips,
adding beloved geese for movement, and also trying to use up everything I was given...
I tried to focus on patterns and the different directions it could go,
but I also had a RED batik I need to add in somehow.

Since I am still sewing geese for the BIG basics house quilt(here).I knew that was it.
Also, it would add yet another direction for the piece...

Now I feel like I have hit North, East, South and West...

...on my table I had a nice big piece of Blue Kona lying there...
And wanted to add a bit of solids to contain the movement of the square...


The square is now 24" square.
It's still singing to me... I can hear it...

I'm not sure containing the movement is enough,
I think it's telling me, it's needs to grow and expand.

What do you think?

If anyone else wants to try a scrap challenge, send me an email and I will organize it.
I'm always up for new challenges...