Rogue Art Quilters Environmental Challenge

Our latest challenge will be hanging at U.S.Bank in downtown Ashland through the end of July. The challenge was to do an environmental quilt and find a poem to go with it. We all used some soy silk fiber somewhere in the piece and we had a common fabric that comes in 5 different colors. In my quilt it is the blue fabric behind the fish.
My quilt is all about water - rain, oceans, etc. I used a batik from Indonesia as my jumping off point and I spent many hours embellishing with beads and fibers.
Each piece was created individually and then it was sewn together in a collage format.

The soy silk is the lightest fabric with the pearl beading on it.

This is the first time that Tina Somerset has participated in one of our challenges. She created her polar bears by felting wools together. Aren't they cuddly looking?

Suzanne McBride created this quilt after being inspired by a walk in Lithia Park. She did a lot of piecing to create the background before embellishing with yarns.

Shirley Snowden had fun creating lots of 3-dimensional leaves for her tree.

I love the stitching on the tree trunk. You really need to see this one close up.

Rona Barnes created this owl by thread painting. Isn't he wonderful? We watched him come to life over time - many hours of stitching and massive amounts of thread!




His face is so expressive!

Pat Gleitsmann did an incredible ocean quilt featuring this whale. This is another quilt that needs to be seen close up. She has embellished it beautifully with ribbons and fibers and there are fish in her quilting.

Can you see the fish in the upper right hand corner?

Elaine Turcke experimented with raw edges when she created her flower. It is a Fritilleria ( I may be butchering the spelling!)
Her quilt has a real feeling of depth.

Carol Stocking amazed us all with her polar bears. She used fake fur and colored it with pencils. Her Northern Lights are all free hand quilted and this quilt is just gorgeous. You have to see it in person.

There are some other quilts at the show with a nature theme that are also worth seeing. I am just showing the challenge quilts on this blog. Please visit our quilts in person and let us know what you think.