Voyage

Leaving it to the last minute as usula! Started these pieces months ago but only got around to getting them near a finished state today. My inspiration was a trip to Canada earlier this year....

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      Freedom  My inspiration for 2017 theme "Freedom" was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech also known as the four freedom speech. In the speech, during the WWII time, he ma...

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What does "Freedom" mean to me?  Are any of us actually "free"?  If we are not "free", how do we obtain our "freedom"?  And what is this "freedom" we are seeking? I decided to focus on a bir...

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I interpreted the Freedom theme to be freedom for me to develop an idea from source material that has been brooding  for a while. I have always admired the photography of  Edward Steichen , ...

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Kind of hard to believe that a whole year has passed and tomorrow 2018 begins. No doubt I'll be making lots of lists tomorrow in my shiny new 2108 diary, yearly goals, ongoing projects and deadl...

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Away from home until January 2nd - I have finished my pieces but not able to post photos of finished pieces on the blog as they are on my home PC - but I have some poor photos on my phone that I...

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I caught up with Betty when I was over at the Houston Show, Betty had a number of pieces on show including the piece below which was a tribute to her mother, Anna Marie Petersen who is 100 years...

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I have been a lot less active creatively this year as time has been needed on other activities - all very enjoyable but only now trying to catch up with work I have planned out but not executed....

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I was glad to see Paula's e-mail this morning about making an entry to the blog.  It's a good idea and a worthy goal for each of us to make entries and regular intervals.  We are separated by s...

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THÈME 2016 "TREASURES" Sparkles on the Leman Lake are alive thanks to the light which changes according to the time of the day, the colours of the sky, the weather and the movements of water...

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TREASURES Weeds Grasses Seeds Flowers These pieces were painted on my iPad and printed on charmeuse silk, then quilted on my Pfaff powerquilter 16.0 which is mounte...

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    My treasures This year I chose to focus on amulets as cultural treasures of the Mediterranean countries, mostly Turkey, Greece or Spain, but also among citizens of Israel, who brought ...

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TREASURES There are some special places that we return to again and again where we treasure memories of past visits and always intend to come back. My four pieces are based on two English pla...

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The Hopi (Tohono O’odham) people live primarily on three mesas in Northeastern Arizona, about 70 miles from Flagstaff. In Hopi cosmology, the katsinas reside on the Humphreys Peak, approximatel...

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'One Man's Trash is another Man's Treasure' 2 'Majani' Majani is Kiswahili for tea leaves. I saved old tea bags and quilted them onto a piece of cotton dyed in strong tea. My husband r...

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I was undergoing a rather difficult period of my life when I had to empty my parents' house in early summer. I had expected to find plenty of precious or not so precious memories, but the reality...

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And finally the fourth quilt this year and challenge completed! So this one is a little different to the others, in so much as the others where natural forms, shells and daisies. This one is ma...

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Daisies of all shapes and sizes but particularly the small kind found in gardens with the pretty pink edges on the petals have always been my favourite flowers. Flower symbolism associated wit...

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Porto 1 Here are my 4 Voyage Quilts, although I may change the last one, and do a different one. Porto is a UNESCO World Heritage Site so a "Treasure". I place I have been to a couple of t...

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As usual when I start preparing materials for a quilt I get a bit carried away and end up with enough fabrics for ten quilts!! I had such fun choosing and preparing the shells for the first piec...

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THIS IS MY FOURTH ND LAST OF THE SERIES FOR 'TREASURES' 2016 CALLED 'REEF' ALL PIECES ARE BASED ON AUSTRALIA AND ITS 'TREASURES'  IN ABSTRACT FORM. BACKGROUND FABRICS ON ALL FOUR PIECES ARE ...

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THIS IS MY THIRD OF FOUR PIECES FOR 'TREASURES' 2016 CALLED 'RAINFOREST' ALL PIECES ARE BASED ON AUSTRALIA AND ITS 'TREASURES'  IN ABSTRACT FORM. BY SANDRA SULLIVAN - AUSTRALIA

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THIS IS MY SECOND OF FOUR PIECES FOR 'TREASURES' 2016 CALLED 'DESERT' ALL PIECES ARE BASED ON AUSTRALIA AND ITS 'TREASURES'  IN ABSTRACT FORM. BY SANDRA SULLIVAN - AUSTRALIA

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THIS IS MY FIRST OF FOUR PIECES FOR 'TREASURES' 2016 CALLED 'RED CENTRE' ALL PIECES ARE BASED ON AUSTRALIA AND ITS 'TREASURES'  IN ABSTRACT FORM. BY SANDRA SULLIVAN - AUSTRALIA

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It's only been this week that I have had a chance to get stuck into my "Treasured Memories " pieces. I have had the research and some of the prep work done for ages but lots of other projects h...

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