VP Challenge for 2022-2023 is .... Big Magic!
My daughter gave me a book by Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic; Creative Living Beyond Fear. The book goes beyond Gilbert’s creative process. She coaches you to find new ways to live your life in a curious, passionate, mindful manner. In the book, she asks, “Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” It was a light read and I enjoyed it!
So this year, my challenge is … bring forth the modern quilt within you! Be enchanted by things around you. Try new techniques. Go bold with new colours. Let go of that ruler. Try a new interpretation of a traditional pattern. Make a statement!
The challenge is simple. Design and make something as unique as you are! No rules. It can be any size or shape. Feel free to share your treasures along the way in our monthly Show and Tell or on Instagram #ottmqg. Check out the blog space each month where I will provide three prompts; design, artist and word/picture. Hopefully, they will provide inspiration to spark some creativity.
Bring forth the quilt treasure within you!
May prompts
- Design prompt: Modern Traditionalism. Combining modern design elements and applying them to a traditional pattern, or block.
- Artist prompt: Amanda Carye. In the Introduction to her book, Amanda touches on how she started with traditional blocks and daydreamed of future quilts.
- Word/Picture prompt: Patches.
April prompts
- Design prompt: Stretching the definition of Functional
- Artist prompt: The quilters of the Changi quilt
- Word/Picture prompt: “We Are Enough”
March prompts
- Design prompt: Large Scale Piecing.
- Artist prompt: Check out Nelson Salsa’s Double Quatrefoil on IG
- Word/Picture prompt: star
February prompts
- Design prompt: Alternate Grid
- Artist prompt: Jackie Benedetti designed a quilt called Vortex Redux.
- Word/Picture prompt: beehive
January prompts
- Design prompt: Functional - having a special activity, purpose or task.
- Artist prompt: Rachel DK Clark - Creative wearable quilting.
- Picture/Word prompt: Journey - A mind that is stretched by new experience can no longer go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
November prompts
- Design prompt: Minimalism!
- Artist prompt: Karen Bolan’s Echo Chamber
- Picture/Word prompt: Albert Einstein, “Be a voice not an echo.”
October prompts
What really matters? Give yourself permission to find your right balance between being creatively organized and disorganized.- Design prompt: Deconstruction!
- Artist prompt: International Quilt Museum
- Picture/Word prompt: Ying/Yang
September prompts
- Design prompt: Improv piecing. Heidi Parkes explores where her inspiration comes from, exploring techniques and being playful. Check out her webinar on the MQG site, “Slow Improvisation: Improv Piecing with a Specific Theme in Mind.”
- Artist prompt: Maria Shell (aka Tales of a Stitcher) has a way of exploring pattern, line, shape and colour. Check out her website and portfolio of chairs.
- Picture/Word prompt: Pull up a chair! What does a chair mean to you? Does the image, line, shape or colour intrigue you? Bring forth the modern quilt within you!
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Karen Mahoney
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