April 2008 Challenge: Birds and Flowers! (Page 1)

St. Charles, IL USA
barb@barbvlack.com

clubEQ challenge for April, 2008: Birds and Flowers

I am looking forward to the goldfinches sporting their beautiful yellow feathers when they visit my birdfeeder this spring.

St. Charles, IL USA
barb@barbvlack.com

clubEQ challenge for April, 2008: Birds and Flowers

The foundation pieced poppy blocks from the EQ6 block library were combined with a leaf motif. The relaxed vine is also from the EQ6 block library, but poppies replaced honeysuckle blossoms.

Mischievous Texas Roadrunner is celebrating an Oriental Spring. I don't suppose he asked permission before picking someone's flowers, do you?

Canmore, Alberta. 2008

It is late April and we are still having winter weather where I live. This would be a cheering quilt to hang during the big freeze.
The weather men are forecasting real spring to start tomorrow.

The goldfinches are just getting their breeding plumage, but many other birds are in the air (Birds in Air block). I'm looking forward to all the garden flowers coming along.

I used 2 blocks from EQ6 library: tulips and peacock feathers that I arranged together using an on-point layout.
Cheers from France
Hélène

My mom gave me some Lily of the valley for May 1rst (a tradition in France) and that's gave me the inspiration for this quilt. I draw the motif of Lily of the valley and use the wreathmaker to make a block of 5 sprigs of lily that suggests a dance.
Cheers from France,
Hélène

Claudia Chang From Taiwan

Williamsburg, VA

Used Layout Library, Sashed Blocks - 14. All applique designs are from the EQ libraries.

Sale UK

I have always loved poppies, summer sun and the song of blackbirds.

When complete, however, this rerminded me of poppies for Remembrence Day and the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae

Norway

Club EQ April Challenge 2008

Norway

Club EQ April Challenge 2008

Up till now, there is the season of tulips. The fields are blooming with hyacints and tulips. So I have designed this little quilt.

Rotterdam the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Two tradiitonal dresden blocks become the tail feathers for the peacock.

Shown here in Japanese prints but I'm thinking this could be made with any group of seven coordinate fabrics with a common theme - stars -- summer --florals scraps -- rainbow colors !

First I made a block with a stone design,set it in a custom layout and set selfdrawn Edelweiss in different sizes over the whole quilt on layer 2.
Completed it wth an Auto Border.

The Mississippi River along the Iowa shores is home to many different birds during the seasons. We have the Bald Eagle all winter and Pelicans in the Spring. Mallard ducks and Canadian Geese are seen other times. The pictures were taken from the Internet and still have credits on them.

Davenport, IA

The pieced blocks are the curiously named Nine Patch Star. The flowers I drew myself.

This was a fun and easy challenge once the *Unreadable Polygon* gremlins stopped teasing us.

Sunnyside, Washington

The center is a variation of a block I drew last June. The Peony Border is from the EQ6 library.

I originally drew the parrots for a Round Robin in the summer of 2007. The other three members of that group -- nice ladies all -- 'disappeared into the mist' once the final pass had been made. Of the finished quilts, I saw only the one on which I added the third border and my own. At least, I got a finished quilt back!

Sunnyside, Washington

East Hampton, NY

The flowers-in-containers blocks came from Classic applique, Baltimore. The Rose of Sharon block and the border came from Classic Applique, 30's and 40's.

East Hampton, NY

This quilt uses a block called Priscilla's Choice, from Blockbase. The flowers are formed as a secondary design, since the applique is done in each corner of a block.

Houston, Texas, USA

This original block was drawn in EQ6 using the Easy Draw Plus Patch Draw function. I imported a garden photograph, made a rough tracing, and used the drawing tools to create depth and detail. I then set the block in a custom quilt setting and created a border using EQ's auto border feature.

Guildford, England

The flower block is from Blockbase and the 16 patch with leaves in the corner was amended by me to act as a companion block. The geese were added to fit the "birds and flowers" theme and to break up the pattern a little and stop it becomming too busy.

Guildford, England

The basket in the centre is made by adding the flowers and bird as motifs on layer 2. The friendship stars and nine patch blocks act as a frame and echo some of the colours in the applique blocks.

This is a much more whimsical quilt that my usual stuff, but inspiration hit early one morning. I was out on the patio enjoying coffee. It was early enough that the garden was full of bird songs and I could just imagine what my feathered friends were saying to each other as they planned their day.

The little birdies are from Barbara Brackman's magic book. While the blocks were drawn in EQ4, they can be linked into our current libraries just like all the other stand-alones.

This was a fun quilt to work on!

Haymarket VA

Thanks to Patti's Quilt Universty class, I was able to draw tiny stems and curly tendrils. This quilt is on my "to-do" list since I've promised a new wall hanging for my Mom's dining room. Once again guys, a great challenge.

Haymarket, VA

We always plant a row of sunflowers in our garden.and on a warm sunny day in the fall you can see many hummingbirds amoungst the bright yellow flowers.

I used the Sunflower Block from the llibrary and revised one of the bird blocks to create the hummingbird

Ontario, Canada

I used the trumpet vine block from the library and added the hummingbirds that I had creatred previously

Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada

The snowdrops have finished, the tulips and blooming and the robins are building their nests. It's spring in Toronto!

All blocks are from the EQ Libraries