quilt challenge

this is a art painting,that my friend linda over at eat, sleep, quilt blog has asked me to do a quilt challenge with her.  this is the painting that we are going to use.  she is doing the same challenge with a group of quilter's on another blog.  so check out her blog for more details about the challenge.  so i said ok.  the challenge is to take an art painting and make a quilt using only SOLID COLORS.  REPEAT SOLID COLORS. i am thinking ok this is easy. you can change the art work to your interpretation of the art work. but it must be solid colors.  my problem is that i only have in my solid stash fabric, is black, red, and a small piece of white.and two or three brown tones, what the heck can a sistah do with that.  we are not suppose to buy any fabric, but use what you have.  my stash color is ugly, you hear me, ugly.  so i am going to take myself to a quilt shop and buy myself some solid fabric.  now if this challenge was about using prints, african fabric, batiks anything but solids, i would not have to go to a quilt shop. solid fabric is not really my thing.  now if it is batik, solid black, know problem.  hey, a sistah like me will buy the whole bulk of michael miller black.  black is my favorite choice of fabric.  so just to let you know there will be some black in this piece.  and the challenge is due the first of august.  i will post how it is coming along until the first of august when i will give it to linda.

stitches for now

yetunde

comments

thank you all for your comments, i do read them.  sherise, i do have marilyn belford book and i do use her technique.  my problem is this technique takes longer to do vs the other technique that i do.  i just have to realize if i want it to be right i just have to take my time. whether i can finish it in a couple of hours or a couple of day.  i just want it to look right.  now for the person who left a comment and know my creative history.  why aren't you telling me who you truly are.  i have a idea who you are call me. i use to crochet and knit hats with people name or crazy design on them with funny shapes.  a few local well know singers would request hats from me.  i would also go into stores look at a sweater, go home and make that same sweater.  that is another time another day.  quilting is my passion now.  i truly started have problems with my hands. 

community day went great, no rain.  the motown quilt challenge was fun.  i could only name a few of the song and some of them i just didn't know what the name of the song.  my motown song quilt was "tears of a clown".  and it tied for first place for the peoples choice award.  we also gave two movie ticket to the person who could guess the name of the song to the quilts.  out of 16 motown quilts, two people got 11 songs right.  we also hung other quilts other than the motown quilts.  

here are a few picture of that day.  tears of a clown, wee bee quilters, (i am the one holding quilt), my newest piece as of now. and my t-shirt quilt.  i had 12 pieces hanging up that day.

we had a great time

stitches for now.

yetunde

computer problems and been busy

i am back, i have been very busy.  and have been having computer problems.  i have been working on a couple of quilts to send to some children in africa.  no pictures because pictures were lost.  i have finally finished a quilt that i am working on that will be on display for community day at michigan park rec center on june 18th. the quilt theme is motown.  we are to make a quilt base on a motown song.  i can not wait to see what everyone else has made.  sorry folks, i can't show this quilt until after june 18th.  i am  also working on a red and white quilt challenge and that is driving me crazy.  i have tried several time to come up with an idea for a red and white quilt.  this red and white is not my favorite  color.  this is due in december.  so i still have time to come up with something.  i am still doing zentangle and here is a picture of my zentangle quilt.  i plan to finish this by next week.  i came in first place to call bingo on a zentangle group site.  two other women also won.  i am suppose to get the super prize it is suppose to be deliver next we.  it will be zentangle items.

stitches for now

yetunde

ps
if you are in dc stop by michigan park on the 18th, free food, games, bingo, moon bounce and quilts hanging on clothes line a beautiful site to see.     and didn't say it is free.

harder and harder

for some reason these portrait are getting harder and harder for me to do.  i have to look at the picture for hours, before i can work on it.  i still have problems with the skin tones.  i am using photoshop element to break down the picture.  there are people who are just tracing the picture and getting the same results.  that is the way i want to do my portrait. instead of playing with the computer to get what i want.  i just order a book by aniko feher who makes portrait quilts.  i hope this book will help me out, because i don't like the fact that it takes me days to get one portrait made.  the other techique only took me a couple of hours to do.the prince portrait took me two months to do.  i don't like working on things to long, i get bore and throw it in the corner somewhere.

check out what i have done so far.  i will quilt it tonight.

stitches for now1

YETUNDE

ZENTANGLE

about a couple of years ago i tried my hands at doodling on fabric.  i always doodle on paper. now i am finding out that they call this technique ZENTANGLE.  i love doing this.  it is so relaxing.  right now i am trying to make a collection of these and i plan to transfer these drawing onto fabric blocks. if only i had kept the one i did long time ago.  i would tangle and then throw them away.  i am now keeping them in a journal.  if you recall i did an zentangle of a lady on fabric about a year ago.  i have been trying to figure out what to do with her.  so i decided to do a few zentangles and add it to the quilt.the first zentangle is a challenge piece call mooka.  i am in a zentangle challenge of the week on another blog.  so check out what i have done so far and i hope you like it.  

check with me later i am working on a oprah winfrey portrait.  i will post it when it is completed.

stitches for now.

yetunde 

red and white exhabit



well, i went to ny to see the red and white quilt exhibit.  i was just blown away.  about 20 quilters, rented a charted bus to take us to the exhibit.  we also stopped at the city quilters quilt shop. it was a cold day, but a great day seeing the quilts.  the reason why some of us went was because we wanted to see the quilts to give us an idea on what we can make for the red and white challenge that we are in.  although all of these quilts are solid red and white, some of us, that are in the challenge will be using polka dots, stripe anything that is red and white.  i can not wait to see what we come up with.  we have until december to complete our quilts.  we are going to try to find a place to display our quilts in december. i have tried twice on working with these two colors and it is hard for me.  i am not use to working with just two color and it is not a portrait.  wish me luck that i come up with something.

stitches for now,

yetunde

out with the old and in the new

my first very large quilt was a guilt that i made for my bed.  and it was my first appliqued quilt with the paper in the inside. i had to cut little holes to take out the paper.  applique has come along way for me,  no more paper, thank god.  that quilt has proteted me and kept me warm.  when i made this quilt i did not know what the heck i was doing.  i had no pattern, just a picture and i was making changes to that.  during the time that i was making this quilt i thought about my grandmother. how i would watch her make a quilt, with her friends.  but i realize that none of them were teaching any of their children, or grandchildren how to quilt.  i always felt a closness to my grandmother.  she was seen as the mother in her community, people would come to her for advise. so as i worked on this quilt, i remember feeling like she was quilding me in how to make this quilt.  her spirit was telling me what to do and to who to go to if i didn't know how to do something when i was working on this quilt.  i always thought that quilt shops sold only quilts and not fabric.  i never took a  class for quilting.  i read a few books, but i was the type of person that can look at something and go home and make.  i would always do that when i saw a sweater that i like.  i would look at that sweater and go home and make it.  and that is what i did with this quilt.
 now that i have been quilting for several years and my daugther does not have a interest in quilting, i have notice that my granddaughter seem to be interested in alot of things that i do.  a couple of years ago i taught her how to hand quilt. and that seem to be to slow for her and my patience with her was very shot.  but as soon as i showed her what to do on a sewing machine she was hooked.  now that she is 14, a couple of months ago she has joined our jr quilters at the guild that i go to.  she just turned 14 on the 15th a couple of days ago, and i was thinking about giving her one of my sewing machines.  her little brothers are still running in and out  of her room and i just don't feel it is safe right now for her to have a sewing machine at her home right now.  i will just keep it here for now.

the title for this post is call out with the old and in with the new. the quilt that i have been writing about is old and has been laid to rest.  not thrown away.   it is somewhere in a box, somewhere in this house.

now let me show you the new. the new quilt that will be laid on my bed.