The theme for this collection is literary allusions. This summer, I saw the televised Joni Mitchell concert with Brandi Carlile. The...

"Damaged" by Paula Rafferty 24" x 32" Finished Quilt The first part of my process when starting a new project is to brain storm and do a...

by Mary Kay Fosnacht 24" x 24" (61 cm square) Inspired by the poem, Dark Night of the Soul, by St. John of the Cross written in the...

For this piece I was inspired by a photograph I took while hiking a trail along the Pacific coast of Washington State with my sister and...

When I took the reference photo for this piece in 2020 in the middle of the COVID crisis as part of an assignment for an online...

Having studied literature in my former life I have a bit of a thing about formality aspects of literature. It’s been a long time since I...

In the past few months, I have experienced some unexpected and life changing events. It reminded me of the last line from the book "Gone...

This is a collaborative piece made by our members in response to the monochrome challenge. It was organized by Jan Soules. She asked each...

By Kathie R Kerler I selected green for my monochromatic quilt, because although I have done a number of floral-themed quilts, green is...

For the monochrome challenge I chose the color red. It is one of my favorite colors. I tend to have a lot of red fabrics. The red...

by Mary Kay Fosnacht 24" x 24" - 61cm x 61cm Monochromatic Challenge - Red Violet The completion of this piece coincided with my...

I have taken a modern approach to a 19th century story regarding the colour violet; the story goes as such… In 1874, a group of artists...

Aqua 24"x32" Liking the idea and theme of a challenge is one thing, executing it is another! I had lots of ideas, did my usual mind-map,...

finished image "Sage" 24 x 27" The life of the nomadic sheepherders in Kyrgistan is physically demanding with exposure to cold and high...

Finished image au·ber·gine (noun) The purple egg-shaped fruit of a tropical Old World plant, eaten as a vegetable; an eggplant; of the...

Most challenges are just that. A challenge. Which is one of the reasons I love this group. When we decided we wanted to do a monochrome...

“Crimson Study; Chinese Lantern” Julie Haddrick 2023 Initially I struggled to connect my botanical theme with the colour palette had been...

Yellow is my absolute favorite color. I have repeatedly worked quilts in yellow. My first contemporary quilt bordering on what I try to do now was a yellow monochrome. And I have several other quilts in yellow, either rather monochrome "Here Comes the Sun (text messages 20)" 2019 Or sometimes in combination with grey(s). Currently, a piece of mine, a lockdown-coping-strategy quilt with a lot of yellow is traveling with the German Patchwork Guild’s presitigious biannual exhi

J'ai eu de la chance, puisque j'ai écopé d'une de mes couleurs préférées. Elle est difficile à utiliser seule, car les valeurs claires ...

I was a little stuck as to how to proceed with the monochrome theme. I had the colour – blue – but what next? It was too obvious to think...