December 2007 Challenge: Inspiration from Architecture! (Page 1)

Berit Pramm
Inspiration from a Barn

Barbara Gilstad
Inlaid Foyer Floor

St. Charles, IL, USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Designed for the December, 2007, clubEQ challenge: Inspirations from Architecture

I've always loved the Avery Coonley Playhouse window, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It offers an inspiration for an irregular grid background for a free-style (Custom Set) quilt.

St. Charles, IL USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Inspired by the beautiful Ardis Kranik Theatre of the Civic Opera House of Chicago, I named this piece after my favorite tenor aria, which means, "No one is sleeping." It's from Puccini's "Turandot."

The Art Deco ornamentation in the theatre is painted in gold leaf and embellished with richly colored accents. There are columns of the vines and leaves everywhere.

We have some decorations on our barn.
I was inspired to make this design.The
strips reminds me of the wood.The decorations is near the roof.

Club EQ Challenge December 2007

C.M.Verbiest
Church windows

C.M.Verbiest
Erasmus -bridge (the Swan) Rotterdam

Carolyn Laukkonen
Wrought Iron Fence

Charlotte Kleiner
Chrysler Building Beauty

When I am in the old dutch town Gouda I visit the St Jans church for the beautiful windows.

For Christmas I have made three gotic church windows.

C.M.Verbiest
Rotterdam
the Netherlands

C.M.Verbiest
Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Designed for EQ Challenge - Architecture Inspired - by Carolyn Laukkonen,
www.piecepatcher.ca

I have made a couple of quilted wallhangings (and have one more in progress) from the book Enchanted Views
by Dilys Fronks. This is my version, it was a challenge to do the applique motif overlay.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

This block was inspired by the top of the Chrysler building in New York City.

Charlotte Kleiner
Fiesta Fans

Cheryl Brown
The Liberty Tunnels into Pittsburgh

Claudia Chang
Gallary

Claudia Chang
View

Charlotte Kleiner
Winnipeg, MB Canada

This block was inspired by the top of the Chrysler building in New York City.

To get to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you drive through wonderful tunnels or "Tubes". Then the city opens out before you with a magnificant view of the Point where three rivers meet.

Cheryl Brown
Tampa. Florida

Claudia Chang From Taiwan

Claudia Chang From Taiwan

Christiane Wipplinger
Floor Tiles

Christiane Wipplinger
My Little Patchworktown

Danka Kruszewska
Miami Perspective

Daphne Stewart
Lancet Arch ©

For EQ 2007 Dec Challenge
"Architecture"

This is only my imagination - I have never been there yet...

Original designed for the January' 06 "Perspective" challenge on the "EQ_leicht_gemacht" German speaking yahoo mailing list. One Block and many new fabrics from EQ collections only.

Please show this picture necessary in Cm (new EQ6 fabric scale ability)
and possible without patch outlines!

Danka Kruszewska
Riegelsberg, Germany

My intention was to draw the lady in the window and give her red hair and a blue gown; the cat was going to be a calico. Then I realized that a mere mortal -- and her cat -- would be a temporary presence in a building that would have architecture such as this. The detailed drawing morphed into a sketch, a suggestion of an earthly life that comes and goes, while the dwelling goes on and on.

Challenges are for learning but I didn't spend too much time on research. I think a true lancet window would be tall and narrow and might not be of a height to sit on. This is a fantasy quilt with a fantasy window.

Daphne Stewart

Sunnyside, Washington

Debbie Weber
Back of the Farm

D. Katherine Willis
Christmas Neighborhood

Hélène Laparra
All colored Eiffel tower

Hélène Laparra
Rounded Eiffel Tower

This mini quilt was inspired by a slide found among my Grandfathers things. I actually traced the images from an imported photo. So much easier with JPG ability now. Yeah!! The house is the "family farm" and the picture was taken from the fenced area for the chickens. Debbie Weber
Wheeling Illinois

D. Katherine Willis
Houston, Texas

I placed standard EQ-6 blocks on layer 2 of a horizontal strip setting and took advantage of the auto border feature.

I couldn't resist in drawing a symbol of French architecture for this challenge!
Anyway I wish to all a VERY Happy new Year full of colors.
Cheers from France
Hélène

Thanks to the wreathmaker tool to make this design with the Eiffel Tower block that I drew in a very simplified way.
Cheers from France
Hélène

Judy Messenger
Pisa 1

Judy Messenger
Pisa 2

Jo Moury
Mr Teeter's Star

Jane Turgeon
Bathroom Tile

by Judy Messenger
Toronto, Canada

On a recent trip to Italy, I was inspired by the mosaics on the Cathedral and Bell Tower (Leaning Tower of Pisa), and felt that they would make great quilt patterns. The block with the flower in the middle is inspired by the 12 mosaic blocks on the first floor of the Leaning Tower. Each has a 3-D flower in the center. When I make this block, I plan to tack a silk flower in the middle, rather than use the applique. The block with the pink design in the middle is inspired by one of the mosaics on the cathedral. It's drawn with a thin "outline" around the applicque in the middle, but I plan to use fusible bias when I make the block.

The colours are similar to the marble colours used in the mosaics on the cathedral.

by Judy Messenger
Toronto, Canada

This quilt was inspired by the mosaics on the Cathedral at Pisa, Italy, which immediatly reminded me of quilt blocks when I saw the cathedral last summer. The colours were inspired by the colours in the marble mosaics on the front of the cathedral. The border modif choosen is from the EQ library, but it is similar to the designs carved in the marble arches around the mosaics.

Original Mariner's compass variation based on the tile work on the fllor at the main enterance of Harris Teeter stores. I've looked at this compass many times and thought it would make a cool quilt, this challenge was the motivation I needed to get drawing AND it sure was a challenge to draw, I need Patti's book NOW!! The scrollwork is from the Auto border library 'cause every quilt needs a little applique!

Jo Moury
Haymarket, VA

This diamond inset is on the wall and floor of our new bathroom. The Roman blind now has a band from this EQ design that lines up with the wall tile insert. I used Seminole piecing as the construction technique. The pieced border is simulated in EQ to get the grout to line up.

Jane Turgeon, Northeastern Ontario

Judith Best
Stained Glass window

Judith Best
Oriental Screen

Judy Zaspel
Homage to Frank

Kay Ahr
The Trap Table

I used a picture of a Church window as inspiration using batik fabrics to color the window panes but a senic landscape fabric would work well. The "glass" pieces are motifs and reverse applique would work well for this design.

Judith Best
Ontario, Canada

I used the same window picture for my inspiration using a floral fabric.

Judith Best
Ontario, Canada

This quilt is custom set and is made from one block. The design was inspired by a Frank Lloyd Wright window.

Still in my classroom supervising standardized testing. There are trapezoidal tables with their four legs. Also narrow metal support bars from the legs to the table top.

Kay Ahr
Sparks, Nevada USA

Kay Ahr
Four-Drawer File Cabinets

Leanne Davis
Wellington Hotel

Linda Erickson
Little Boxes

L. Dickinson

Standing in my classroom, supervising testing. And there were those dull brown file cabinets sitting against the wall.

The drawer fronts are a little wonky.

Kay Ahr
Sparks, Nevada USA

This design is based on the floor tiles in the entry way of the Wellington Hotel in North Adelaide (a very good spot for steak if you're ever in Adelaide)

Leanne Davis
Adelaide, South Australia

Designed by Linda Erickson,
Sierra Vista, AZ

In creating this quilt, I was thinking about the old folk song, "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds, which satirizes suburbia by describing rows of houses made of "ticky tacky".

I used motifs set on layer 2 for the "windows".

This quilt was designed from the photo collection by Mary Ann Sullivan of the bell tower architecture at Mills College by Julia Morgan . The tower is stunning; everytime I drove past it I was thrilled anew at the sight.