The Migration Composite

 

I'll admit it up front.  The placement of the quilts on this one, in my vision, has no rhyme nor reason.  Quilters it seems are fond of flying geese!  I decided, again to eliminate the white background on the composite and add a cliche migration--realistic flying geese.  You'll just have to forgive me if it's overdone with the name tags of the same ilk; the colors just make a nice contrast.

Then, as to the placement of your quilts.  I began with Judy because I got tickled at her interpretation of the theme.  It reminded me of Rita's thrill of migrating on shop-hops!  Then I placed quilts in blank spaces where I could still see flying geese in the background.  In other words, a random pattern.

Nedra's Loons, Carolyn's Hummers, and Alice's Geese lead (migrate, if you will) your eye through the design.

Stopping traffic for a salamander?  That's a new one for me.  As a biology major in college, I do appreciate the effort--wonderful!  But flying cats?  I'm still grinning!

Kathy, God Bless America.

Again, another creative Job Well Done!

Randy

Judy S.- Fabric Migration

 

Migration brought to mind the normal thoughts of birds, butterflies and people, but nothing was popping for me and I did one with flying geese in the first year for "South". This one needed to be new and colorful. I realized that the one thing I have experience with is fabric. I made up this game in the 11"x14" format. 

The migration of fabric starts at cute quilt shops, quilt shows and gifts that I receive and give. From there it comes into my house and I wash and dry. Yes, I am a fabric washer because when I was growing up all fabric went into tubs to soak before we cut them out for garments. Preshrinking was a must and for quilts it is to get the extra dyes out. 

The next step is to iron it and get to know the fabric better. You really get to see the fun parts of it and it becomes your friend so that when you put it on your bookshelf, that only holds fabric, you will remember it and know when it is perfect for your quilt.

Now you have a stash of fabric that goes on to the next part of its journey. Cutting it up to make a beautiful quilt. Moving on down the game we chain stitch as many pieces together to make the quilt come together quickly. Once we have our block made we share those little accomplishments with our friends in many ways. Quilt retreats, quilting bees, or online. Then we finally have the fabric in its grandest form, a QUILT! That is a win!

To make this little quilt I went on the hunt for fabric that would show the moves on the game board. The cute characters with the quilt steps all come from a piece of fabric that I had a tiny bit leftover from years ago. It is similar to Lorelie Design fabrics, but I don't believe it was hers. I have such a small amount of it and no selvage to see who the real artist is. If anyone knows I would love to credit her. 

The only pieces that I didn't find printed on fabric were the quilt shop that looks like a cute mushroom to me and the quilt show banner. The bookshelf was a stripe fabric and I found smaller striped fabrics that I cut into little squares to look like fabric. The stripe fabric is all together in the photo. 

The chain stitched blocks and block next to the sewing machine were cut from a piece of Mary Engelbreit fabric that had little quilts on them. Those pieces were just part of a border around the center design. The washer and dryer I made real simple by cutting a circle for the dryer out of the orange circle fabric I had leftover from the word "Translate". It was a fun time of discovery in my quilt stash. I hope you enjoy finding where all the pieces came from in the photo.