Those foil goodies ARE fun and that sounds like a challenge of a project. I am also doing an undersea project and had found a taffeta skirt at the thrift store in a shimmery dark blue. So I went to town with heat-n-bond and cut that baby up.....lol Can't wait to see what you imagined coming to life. DO get busy!

the unseen Q
 

OK here is what I eventually made for last month's challenge. This is a photo transfer project from skeleton's in the local community college science lab. It sure was fun to do.

What a great piece Suzie....love the detail you captured.

These pieces are wonderful!

Interesting - not sure what else to say - what are you going to do with them?

Skeletons
 

Well it's interesting and surprising to me those skeletons look classy and stylish in my slightly austere dining room. Odd huh? (lol A refined version of a carved turkey?)

But soon it may be hanging in an art gallery in the nearest tourist town of Valparaiso. It will be interesting to see what kind of reception it gets there if it gets a showing.

Love the links you sent to the art Q's BTW. Lots of creativity there.

Suzie

So I know it is hot for you guys... we are freezing down here BTW. It is winter in the southern hemisphere and I am staring at mounds of snow covered mountains.

But you guys must be lifting a few of those limp fingers on behalf of your quilt ideas to make the world a more beautiful and interesting place???? What are you up to????

Any takers for this month's challenge?

July challenge coming up soon.....start thinking cool thoughts to get ready.

Do we have anyone here living in Puerto Rico? If so, please PM me. I'll be there next week, would love to meet with you, if possible.

Hope you have a nice trip and that you get to me a board member. Wouldn't that be fun?!

I'm wondering if this thread might get more responses if it was more specific. There are so many versions of "art quilts". Let's name the ones we can think of and perhaps quilters will be more interested in less general threads. Here are some possible specific threads.... and please add to this list and let's see what happens.

Landscape
Scrappy
Bizarre/far out
Photos
Floral
Fauna
People (faces)
Children
Buildings
Animals

Already I can see too many overlaps, but "Landscape" could include people and animals, fauna, flora, even scrappy.

These are just some ideas, maybe good, maybe lame. But I am surprised that "art quilts" hasn't taken off better than it is. More pictures might help. I'm going to try to post some pictures to show the small range of quilts I have done as soon as I can find someone who knows how to do it LOL.

My avatar is a response to a 9 year old neice who told me "I like hummingbirds and my favorite color is lime green." The humming birds are taken (in general) from a Dover Press coloring book, the florals from on-line photos. Both were done with scraps and paper-glue sticks before being sewn down.