April 2006 Challenge: Front and Back! (Page 1)

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Barb Vlack
Lighthouses, Baskets, and Boats -- Oh, My!

Barb Vlack
Backing for Lighthouses, Baskets and Boats -- Oh, My!

Barbara Gilstad
Smooth Sailing

Barbara Gilstad
Smooth Sailing (backside)

The inspiration fabric is from the EQ Palette of the Month for March, 2006. I created a bitmap export of the fabric from a layout in EQ5 in order to stabilize the placement of the fabric motif when setting it into this quilt.

St. Charles, IL USA

I love pieced backings. They work well with my machine quilting and I think they give a surprise element to the often-ignored side of the quilt. It was fun to work with this collage of theme-related novelty prints.

St. Charles, IL USA

 

 

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C.M.Verbiest
Sand, Sea and Water (front)

C.M.Verbiest
Sand, Sea and Water (backside)

Charlotte Kleiner
Beach Scene

Daphne Stewart
Roseate Spoonbill

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

I wanted to create a beach scene with various pieces of fabric and this layout from the layout library worked well. I did cut the measurements in half to make it a wall hanging size.
I used three embroidery motifs from the embroidery libraries (Amazing Designs and Viking) for the sail boat, crab and chair, which in a real quilt I would probably make into applique pieces.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

The spoonbill lives in swamps, lagoons, and on coastal islands -- close enough to the seashore to fit this month's required palette.

The spoonbill population was greatly reduced in the 19th century so women could display fans made with the wing feathers. This generation has a hard time understanding such short-sightedness, but we do other thoughtless things.

Pardon me now while I step down from my soapbox.

Sunnyside, Washington

 

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Daphne Stewart
Backing for 'Roseate Spoonbill'

Alexis Dunstan
At the Beach

Grace B.
My Sea

Grace B.
All Parts of the Sea

My father-in-law, Buell, would have loved some of the fabrics in this palette. Whenever he and Madie shopped for furniture, his vote was always for something orange. She eventually learned to live with it.

This is a custom set. The log-cabin-like borders were added one side at a time -- there are actually four borders. I couldn't resist adding a label.

Sunnyside, Washington

My rendition done in 1/2" squares of fabric (mosaic) of a child making discoveries in a pail at the beach.

 

 

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Hélène L.
Tongues et mouettes (front)

Hélène L.
Tongues et mouettes (back)

Jaymie Perkins
Sail Away

Jaymie Perkins
Sail Away

I used 2 different layouts from the EQ5 library for this challenge.

Cheers from France

Clermont-Ferrand

 

Quilt Front

Ceresco, Nebraska

Quilt Backing

Ceresco, Nebraska

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Leanne Davis
She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore (front)

Leanne Davis
She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore (back)

Sharon Lewis
aka MrsKen
Pointing the Way Home

Sharon Lewis
aka MrsKen
A Beacon in the Storm

The layout is one of the star layouts from the library.
I used the fussy cut tool to center some of the sea shells in the pieces of the star.

The name of the quilt is a tongue-twister I was taught as a child.

Adelaide, South Australia

This is another one of the star layouts from the layout library.

Adelaide, South Australia

The Mariner's Compass block seemed an appropriate choice for the palette. The name ties in with the opposite side of the quilt.

Canoga Park, CA

The Storm at Sea is a favorite block of mine and it seemed to lend itself to the "Beach" palette. The lighthouses on the one fabric suggested the name.

Canoga Park, CA

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E. Schooley
Day and Night at the Beach! (Day is front)

E. Schooley
Fireworks at the Sea Shore (night)

Linda Remley
By the Sea

Linda Remley
Under the Sea

Day and Night at the beach! Day is front; Night is back. Or Reversed. Both of these were designed to be backs, but I liked the use of the fabric more then in the staid front designs with all their fussy cutting.

I began with a whirlaround block and one of the EQ5 layouts. It just grew from there.

To get the scene for the front of the quilt, I colored a block with the fabric and saved the portion I wanted as a bitmap. I then imported and traced the scene as an applique block. I added a simple v-shaped piece for the birds. I colored the block with At the Seashore fabrics. I fussy cut some of them to get the part of the fabric I wanted to show.

Brockport, NY

For the back of the quilt, I drew an applique block with simple curved partitions. I colored it as a cross section
of the sea. I added EQblocks of applique fish and used one of the bird fabrics for the sky.

Brockport, NY

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Judy Zaspel
Something Fishy is Going On

Judy Zaspel
Back of Fishy Quilt

Audrey Smith
I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside

Audrey Smith
Didn't We Have a Loverly Time

I designed the fish block and have wanted to try a row quilt for a long time. The checkerboard is supposed to look like the shoreline.

 

What lovely fabrics, they remind me of the north east coast of England where I spent my childhood summers.
I wanted to do justice to the fabrics so I designed a quilt that showcases particular elements in largish sections.

Sale UK

(the day we went to Bangor = the rest of the line of the song)
Once again I wanted elements from within the fabrics to be showcased. The sails of the boats, a couple of mermaids, etc..

Sale UK

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Crystal Dano
A Mosatic

Crystal Dano
A Mosatic-back

Berit Pramm
Fishes

Berit Pramm
Back of the Fishes

I was very creative with this Mosatic. The whole mosatic is using the fabric pallette even though it may not look it!

I thought I would keep it a lil simple, yet still eye catching.

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Norway

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