Challenge #27: The color Orange/Strip piecing

The Quilters Studio – Art Quilt Challenge 2nd Saturday of month 10:30 am (Sept to May)

Challenge #27 Orange with free form strip piecing! Sept 8th/due Oct 13th

Challenge: Use the color Orange along with other colors in a free form pieced art quilt. Any hues, shades, tints, and tones in the Orange, Red-Orange and/or Yellow Orange color families.

Pantone named Tangerine Tango as the color for 2012  http://luanarubin.typepad.com/luana-rubin/2011/12/pantone-tangerine-tango.html

Free form strip piecing can be any technique you wish, such as:

• Sew various size strips together to form new fabric pieces.

• Cut up and reassemble into abstract design or background

• Fuse strips onto background fabric

• Foundation piece the strips aka string piecing

• Sew and flip directly onto the batting & backing

• Raw edge appliqué strips onto background fabric

• Horizontal strips in a landscape format

• “Strips” can be straight, wonky, curved or anything else you can imagine

• Some links for techniques:

o http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpatternsprojects/ss/string_piecing.htm

o http://www.equilters.com/library/techniques/sewing_curves.html    

o http://mariaelkins.com/index.php/2012/05/nc-strip-piecing-days-1-2/

o http://mariaelkins.com/index.php/2012/05/nc-strip-piecing-days-3-5/

• Examples of artists using free form piecing: Nancy Crow, Gwen Marston, Lisa Call, Jean Wells, Anna Williams, the Gee's Bend quilters and lots of others

   http://www.straw.com/equilters/annawilliams/index.html

o http://www.studio78.net/galleries12.html

o http://pinterest.com/scrinbham/abstracts-strip-piecing-reconstructing/

o http://www.jeanwellsquilts.com/gallery-color.html

o http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/explore/catalog/slideshow/index.htm

o http://elainequehl.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html

o http://pinterest.com/scrinbham/art-quilts-with-vertical-strips /


Have FUN!