Habitat for Scraps Quilt / Any ideas for a habitat?
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Habitat for Scraps Quilt / Any ideas for a habitat?
The 2013 Guild Challenge is to make a quilt that must have a minimum of six, 6 1/2" blocks that must be a habitat of some kind. (houses, pond for fish, chicken coup for hens, anything you consider a habitat.
Each member was given a different fat quarter that must be in one or more blocks. Mine was blue with tiny flowers. We are encouraged to use our stash to make the six blocks but may also use new fabric if need be. Any style of quilting is acceptable.
If anyone has any ideas/links to help me decide on what my habitat could be, please send them my way.
Thanks for letting me pick your brains and have a happy quilting kind of day! Copycat
Each member was given a different fat quarter that must be in one or more blocks. Mine was blue with tiny flowers. We are encouraged to use our stash to make the six blocks but may also use new fabric if need be. Any style of quilting is acceptable.
If anyone has any ideas/links to help me decide on what my habitat could be, please send them my way.
Thanks for letting me pick your brains and have a happy quilting kind of day! Copycat
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First thought, off the top of my head, would be an appliqued farm theme. You could do a block of each animal in its shelter, pasture, corral, bees buzzing around flowers, moles tunneling through the ground pushing the grass up (think I've had a mole problem?), field mice entering the house through a small hole in the foundation, etc.
I have a whimsical streak in me and think this would be a fun theme to pursue. Of course, not everyone has my sense of the 'silly', but it could be a fun quilt to make. In fact, I think I'll put this idea on my list of 'someday' quilts--when I finish some of my UFOs.
Let us see the progress of the quilt while you're making it. And of course the finished product.
I have a whimsical streak in me and think this would be a fun theme to pursue. Of course, not everyone has my sense of the 'silly', but it could be a fun quilt to make. In fact, I think I'll put this idea on my list of 'someday' quilts--when I finish some of my UFOs.
Let us see the progress of the quilt while you're making it. And of course the finished product.
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expend your thinking from "houses" to other kinds of habitates.......isn't a flower pot a habitate for flower seed and the growing flowers" - a vase is a temperory habitate for a group of flowers? A window sill box with growing flowers.
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Think beyone the obvious
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I will most likely do pieced and applique blocks after deciding on a theme. Thanks to everyone for their input.
2 heads are better than one and I appreciate your great ideas to consider.
The challenge is due in July so I have time to dream after looking through my scraps.
I do like the advice to "think beyond the obvious" such as flower pots and window sill boxes as habitats for flowers. What fun ideas you smart ladies have given me. thanks. stay tuned!
2 heads are better than one and I appreciate your great ideas to consider.
The challenge is due in July so I have time to dream after looking through my scraps.
I do like the advice to "think beyond the obvious" such as flower pots and window sill boxes as habitats for flowers. What fun ideas you smart ladies have given me. thanks. stay tuned!
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