brown bag auction revealed

Last night was our regular monthly meeting of the Thistle Quilt Guild and the time to exchange our brown bag challenge pieces . First I will show you what fabrics I had to work with and then what I made with those fabrics .

I had this beautiful print , a mottled yellow and a deep navy solid , as I mentioned before when I looked at the contents of the bag although lovely fabrics , I had no clue what to do with them but I learned last evening I was not alone in this feeling . The challenge is to make something using only the fabrics in the bag and adding one fabric if necessary to complete your chosen project . This for me was the most difficult part s when looking for that perfect project I would find I would not have enough of one of the provided fabrics , oh I should mention both the print and the navy were FQS and the yellow was maybe close to half a mt. , I knew I had to be sure before cutting that I had enough .  So.....I found that perfect project but I had a dilemma , I had already chosen my extra fabric which would be the background and I needed a green , what did I do well I took some of the yellow fabric and I painted it green ,gutsy or what , maybe just plan stubborn as I really wanted to make this project.

Here is a photo of my painting process , this was for the vine and I also painted some for the leaves , want to see what I made ?

 

This is a garden flag or wall hanging designed by my friend Annette of in stitches and seams , Annette had kindly asked me to test out her pattern and when it arrived in the mail I knew this is what I wanted to make for the challenge . I passed on my creation last night to Kim and she liked it very much which made me very happy . Now you know what was really funny was Kim had my brown bag but of course neither of us knew that until last night . My fabrics were fall fabrics which is my favorite time of year and Kim surprised me with this beautiful table topper .

A lovely large Dresdan Plate , just perfect for my round table , thanks so much Kim you did a fantastic job of using my fabrics to their best advantage .

I have one more thing to share , some of our members exchanged postcards with the Whangarei Patchworkers quilt guild in  New Zealand and Lynda P who I corresponded with to arrange this exchange just happened to have Kim for a partner and Lynda sent along a beautiful art piece for me as well as Kim , it is just gorgeous .

This is The Bay of Islands in NZ, I sure would love to see this in person. Thanks so much Lynda , I will always treasure it . 

 I wasn't going to mention this but I  am just so darn proud I must share . My brother William Rogers(Bill) is a renowned artist and has won awards all across the globe , well this week , Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla have been  doing a royal tour of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island andWinnepeg Manitoba and Bill was chosen by Prince Charles as the official artist for this event . He travelled with them throughout the tour and now I am anxious to see just what he painted for them. If you are interested you can check out his work , here is a link to his website . http://williamrogersart.com . I am very proud of my brother and love his work .

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

 hugs Sheila