From Alice: I am at last home from my extended trip! I came home to find Randy's composite and his, as usual, clever narrative about why he placed the quilts where he did. As always, many thanks, Randy! I think he did a brilliant job with this one, truly! So, in his words:
Seems I must again apologize for the delay in posting the
composite for your creative work. Well,
I’m at least a little apologetic. I was at my brother’s home in Cascade,
Colorado, up the Ute mountain pass from Colorado Springs, just at the foot of
Pikes Peak.
First, row three: my process in this creation is to download
all your images, put them on one page, then lean back and see if I can find a
row by row pattern for the composite. My quirky sense of humor led my eye immediately
to Sara’s Circle – and my distaste for those traffic circles – Waco has two,
one historical, one new “traffic calming” creation that still is not logical to
me – but that quilt just had to be centered and it still makes me grin – Thanks
Sara. And then the patterns and colors of Jane [I read two opinions of which quilt/backings–
so I made MY choiceJ]
and Kathy’s quilts seemed to nicely blend so row three was completed and that’s
why row three was designed first.
Row one: two squares, one rectangular, nice color patterns,
interesting complementary circle compositions and I’m now leaning forward and
excited about the process.
Row two: Gail’s baby said to me, “the circle of life” before
I read the description. I’m a biologist by education and Alice’s tree made me
also think of life’s cycle, again before I read the narrative, so I think those
blocks pin the corners of row two, with a nice, almost “nother world” feel in
Andrea’s beautiful colors.
Row four: and we do have a “nother world” in this row? How
could those three quilts NOT be in the same row – WOW! All three are so life-like,
makes me wonder if there IS a quilt guild out there?
Row five: knowing how difficult it would have been for David
and Janet to pin her quilt on a wall, I used the techniques of Photoshop to
“hang it up” – hope you don’t mind Janet? The colors of Carolyn and Judy’s
quilts nicely frame this row and make a finishing statement to a challenging
theme for this round.
