Material Mavens

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Kathy's "ROUND TABLE"

I have to admit, when it was time for the "Round Table" Challenge, my very first thought was "Round Table Pizza !"

[ We lived in Anchorage, AK for 35 years, and believe me... "Round Table Pizza" was a pretty big deal for us... Delicious, readily available in just about any combination you'd want, AND... Free Delivery... A super great bonus because of our weather and road conditions ! ]

I kept pondering how to put "Round Table" into one of our Quilts, and had, "by chance" recently ordered a book on "Crop Circles" that have intrigued me for many years. How do they get those truly gigantic circles to be so perfectly "Circular" ? How do they accomplish the extremely complex designs ? How do they photograph the Crop Circles ? So many questions !

As you can tell, "Crop Circles" became my theme, and I had a blast making this quilt !

The book, "Crop Circles, the Bones of God" by Michael Glickman has been (and continues to be) an enormous source of inspiration and information about these phenomenal structures.

All the fabrics in this quilt were "Rust Dyed" using old, rusted pieces / parts we continue to find in our pasture; and I have to admit, any time I see an old rusty piece of metal I tend to pick it up and add it to the stash :-D

This particular Crop Circle, is called the "Angel Formation," and its one of my favorites. It was "created" in July 2001, and is about 700 feet in diameter !

5 comments:

Nedra WeaverOctober 31, 2020 at 6:59 PM
Wow, crop circles!!! I am too lliterl! The lighting makes the background look translucent and the large circles appear to be floating!! Stunning effect!Very creative and gorgeous quilting!!
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CarolynNovember 1, 2020 at 6:01 PM
I love to view these crop circles when flying on an airplane, and have also been fascinated by them. This is a wonderful quilt Kathy. Beautiful!
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Tricia DeckNovember 2, 2020 at 6:05 PM
Such a beautiful quilt. The colors are so delicate. Love that you rusted dyed the fabric.
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AndreaNovember 8, 2020 at 11:46 AM
You had me with "Round Table Pizza", which then morphed into Crop Circles! Thank you for adding a photo that could be enlarged in order to see the details of your quilt. I've never rust dyed any fabric, but after seeing how you have used yours, I'm intrigued. Thank you for the inspiration.
Beautiful little quilt!
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JudyNovember 12, 2020 at 8:23 PM
Mmmm! Round Table Pizza sounds delicious and wow that they had free delivery! Crop circles are an amazing piece of art as your quilt shows. Well done. I like the delicate colors.
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Themes for the Quilts

Below are the themes on which our quilts have been based:

Round One Quilts

9/15/11 Harmony

11/15/15 Surprise

1/15/12 South
3/15/12 Element
5/15/12 Mystery
7/15/12 Daydream
9/15/12 Spiral
11/15/12 Travel
1/15/13 Interwoven
3/15/13 Communication
5/15/13 Canyon

7/15/13 Cell

9/15/13 Green

11/15/13 Comfort

1/15/14 Strong

3/15/14 Translate

5/15/14 Spring

7/15/14 Friendship

Round Two Quilts

10/15/14 Contrast

1/15/15 Modern
4/15/15 Neighbor
7/15/15 Time
10/15/15 Circle(s)
1/15/16 Pun

4/15/16 Doodle

7/15/16 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

10/15/16 Reflection

1/15/17 Boundaries

4/15/17 Quote

7/15/17 Space

10/15/17 Reach

1/15/18 Rock

4/15/18 Blues

THE MATERIAL MAVENS

We are a group of art quilters who come from various parts of the United States, from the East coast and then south to Arkansas and Texas. We were inspired by the original Twelve by Twelve international art quilting group.

Beginning in September, 2011, we started posting our 12"x 12" art quilts, which were based on themes chosen in turn by our members. For Round One, we posted quilts every two months, always on the 15th of the designated months.

Round Two of The Material Mavens began in October, 2014. Some changes were made: quilts were posted every three months, and the quilts could be be either 12"x 12" or rectangular ones measuring 11" x 14", either horizontal or vertical in orientation.

Round Three of The Material Mavens began in July, 2018. Again, changes have been made. Now those members who wish to stay affiliated with the group are free to post quilts every time or every now and then. Two, our blog administrator collected suggested themes from the members who wanted to remain affiliated. These themes were then pulled at random from a "hat," and they were then assigned in order for the posting dates. Since we had 13 members who wanted to remain, we will be posting quilts every 3 months until 2021! This date is significant and appropriate, because 2021 will be the 10th year that our group has been in existence.

MEMBERS REMAINING

1. Alice Baird (Waco, TX) (abaird125@gmail.com)

2. Andrea Willey (MA)
3. Carolyn Henson (TX) (cjhenson214@gmail.com)

5. Gail Bradney (AR)
6. Jane Hartfield (AR) (arkjjhart@mynewroads.com)
7. Judy Steward (TX)
8. Kathy Harte (TX)

9. Karen Pulaski
10. Sara Norris (TX)
11. Tricia Deck (Lincoln, (MA)

12. Teresa Schlabach (AR)

13. Nedra Weaver