August 2008 Challenge: Postcards! (Page 1)

This design illustrates how quilting and embroidery can be combined to create an elegant greeting card.

St. Charles, IL USA

A combination of foundation piecing, crazy patch stitching, applique, and embroidery combine in this greeting card. For a reality card, the "binding" would be cut with a scalloping rotary cutter blade and fused to finish the edges of the card.

St. Charles, IL USA

I used a crazy block, some embroideries
and a happy wish for the trip.

Norway

A crazy block and an embroidery,
and the best wish for the cats!

Norway

Nashville, TN

Rather than piecing this one, I'd print it as fabric, appliqueing the boat.

Nashville, TN

I used a Variable Blocks quilt layout to create this postcard. Then I chose an
applique block before adding the text
to the top.

North Cape May, NJ

I wanted to try and use a picture to
create a fall feeling for a get well
postcard. Custom Set used for
postcard.

North Cape May, NJ

I confess that I much prefer taking pictures of gardens and flowers than the actual gardening part. I wanted to use some of my pictures in a quilt project so decided to make this postcard that a gardener might want to send.

Winnipeg, MB
Canada

With dutch scraps "blue" I have took the town of Delft.

Well know town from the painter Johannes Vermeer.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The typical dutch souvenir for the tourist. Here the Delfts Blue statuettes in an attic window.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Taiwan

This is one that I just might really do, the pearls and heart doilies are imported as gif photos. The butterflies are EQ embroideries and I changed the colors to be more muted. The stitches and lace I drew as motifs.

Sheboygan, Wi.

The zig zag motif represents rick rack.
Some of the leaves are from EQ and some I have drawn.

Sheboygan, Wi.

My youngest sons birth date. Wish I could have had this back then.

Australia

Australia

© Daphne Stewart

Since I couldn't use my print-on-fabric-add-embroidery idea -- as explained in my other challenge quilt's notecard -- I used it here.

I'd print a block and borders that would be really difficult to sew in a small size -- as this 'Sixteen Points' block would be -- then embroider a greeting or a person's name in the center. On most machines with an embroidery feature, the lettering is fairly easy to position.

I used a bunch of solid colors to keep the file size small. For a real postcard, I'd color the block with yummy fabrics.

Sunnyside, Washington

© Daphne Stewart

I was designing this quilt on what would have been my brother Dale's birthday.

My first idea was to print my postcard on printable fabric, using a certain block along with text about the traits of the star sign Leo, then add the zodiac symbol for Leo in embroidery. Guess what? I couldn't find any zodiac signs in EQ's embroidery library.

I did find this "Crazy Patch Embroidery" by Viking, so I drew a block to match the embroidery shape. This really would be an easy posrcrad to make in real life, using the decorative stitches on your sewing machine.

Sunnyside, Washington

This could be used for Fourth of July greetings or to thank the volunteers who man our voting booths.

Houston, Texas, USA

Here's the flip side of the Celebrate Freedom postcard if you're brave enough to send it through the mail.

Houston, Texas, USA

Flower Notecard

Patriotic Notecard

I made a wall hanging similar to this using homespun fabrics. I couldn't fine any in the libraries but these worked for me. Got to play around with editing a pattern, resizing, rotating and using the brush tool.

I just liked the shapes together and the colours suggested Asian to me.

This lucky card has 3 symbols of good luck, happiness, ... I drew lilly of the valley for a previous challenge (200804). Ladybug is from EQ library and could be replaced in a real quilt by a button. I drew the Kanji (Japanese characters) that mean best wishes (for wedding, birth, retirement e.g.) and could be hand painted in a real card.

Cheers from France

I used the palm tree block from EQ6 that I slightly modified to fit the card. I drew a hammock, the hand and the glass. Flower is also from EQ library and could be replaced by a button.

Cheers from France

This was created using foundation pieced blocks from the EQ library which are embellished using embroidery. As I don't have a machine that can do digital embroidery, I would have to do this by hand if I decide to make this quilt, but at only 4" x 6" this wouldn't be too challenging!

Guildford, England

I used a crazy patch block for the background and applique trees and apples from the EQ library.

Guildford, England

Notecard

Torquay UK

Sunbonnet Sue on holiday
I adapted the blocks from the library to add a banner to the plane and changed Sue's costume. View with block outline unchecked.

Torquay UK

The symbol for the Canadian Alzheimer's Society is the forget-me-not. One of their fundraisers is a packet of forget-me-not seeds with a request for donations. This could be an alternative. Best viewed with 'outline patches' unchecked.

Northeastern Ontario