Sunday, November 18, 2018

Upcycled Archibald

Yesterday was Guild day and the unveiling of  the Upcycled Archibald quilts. We were all given a bag with lace, applique pieces   buttons and braid and were encouraged to use everything in our portrait. Here are a few, sadly I didn't get photos of them all

Tracee of Farmgatecreations made the beautiful quilt third from the left, it has so much detail in it.
You can see from the page attached to the quilt, the pieces Tracee started with.





Photo bombed by Mrs Perry 

It was such a great challenge and we had 20 entries, the best for ages. It was also wonderful to see all the different interpretations of a portrait and how people used the bits and pieces they had.
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Here is Donna's entry “A Pawtrait of Queen Elizacat I. Donna was winner and viewers choice for this challenge. This is based on her cat Sherman the Birman. The face and paws are beautiful needle felted pieces and the dress sari fabric. It is just stunning.
the cats eyes look at you no matter where you stand.

Here is my finished Masked Lady.
The supervisor and I had a walk along the beach this morning, today I got a talking to because another mans dog was off lead???? Not sure how it was my problem or why I was responsible!!

It is a beautiful day, I zoomed in on a ship coming into the Bay

lots of boats heading out fishing today.
I had better get moving, the washing needs to  be hung out and I have backings to sew together and iron and batting to cut!! But it is a sunny day and my book is calling.....
Have a wonderful day.


12 comments:

  1. Sew many amazing different interpretations..
    The winning one is great.

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  2. Donnas pawtrait is amazing.
    Great to hear you had a good day out.
    I agree, didn't know why something was said to you about the supervisor.

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  3. All of these quilts are fabulous! What a creative bunch!

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  4. Interesting challenge! The outcome is great. I love the winner!
    Nice to be able to walk on the beach.

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  5. Everyone was so creative with their artwork. Hard to believe that they created these from a bag full of random materials. They are all amazing. I of course love A Pawtrait of Queen Elizacat, no surprise there :) Your masked lady is really lovely!! Sorry you ran into trouble during your beautiful walk, I also don't get it how that was your fault/problem. Some people, really! Ha! The last sentence made me smile because my book is calling too :D

    -Soma

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  6. Your masked lady looks amazing Sue. You are so clever my friend. But my goodness, Donnas pawtrait is just stunning. Maybe because I am such a cat lover ... but I just adore it!!! So many clever ladies.

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  7. You are a clever lot....amazing! Donna did a wonderful job on hers and I loved the title too. Great work on your masked lady. Unfortunately Sue you can't vaccinate against moaning or stupidity lol!

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  8. What an imaginative group you are! Great pieces of work. xx

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  9. wow those challenge quilts were all just amazing.... I think it is so clever to see how people did theirs.

    so now it is hyour fault people let their dogs off lead.... haha....

    Hugz

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  10. Oh my goodness - so much talent and creativity - I just can't come up with words to describe my impressions of what people (ladies!!) can do with some fabric and thread and so on! Thanks for sharing these terrific pieces with us.

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  11. Thanks for sharing those. They are all quite amazing, but I do see why Donna's quilt won. I quite liked your masked person, though!

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