Ingrid Whitcher

This is a challenge project for the Pensacola Quilter’s Guild. Each quilter was given 3 paint chips with the challenge to use those 3 colors and the theme “Shades of Nature”. My 3 colors were yellow, green and orange. I did the 36” option. (I am also working on a smaller sized quilt idea.)

It was also the first day of school yesterday. On the way to school, I noticed a grey hair. Emilie’s comment was’ “Pull it out quick before it spreads!” Not nice!

Here are the first day pictures. Logan was not in the mood, so I will try to catch the front of him sometime soon. :)

Wow, what a week! The lecture at the Santa Rosa Guild went really well. The hit of the program was definitely “George”. This quilt was made as a high school graduation present for a friend’s daughter. My friend help with sewing all the half-squares together. The curved pieced sea turtle was designed specifically for this quilt. It was so much fun to pick out the fabrics, piece and quilt.

I wanted to have a freebe for the presentation at the Santa Rosa Quilter’s Guild. So we worked up this block. You can download it here.

I have the opportunity to do a lecture for the Santa Rosa Quilt Guild this week and have been busy preparing for it. I like to have a work in progress for this lecture, so I pulled out a drawing that I did last year and did the pattern. I have one small corner pieced. It has 92 pieces total and I got about 16 of them pieced. I really like the colors so far and how it is turning out.

I have been working this week on getting a new class sample done. I am going to be teaching a thread sketching class in September and it is always good to have a sample at the shop for people to see. I had wanted to do a lizard for my son-who is in love with anything reptile. I found a really cool photograph of a lizard and asked the photographer’s permission to use his image to make my sketch. He was kind enough to say yes. I have done several thread sketches but this is by far my favorite. It is going to look great on the wall. Only the top is done now, it needs a lot of embellishment yet.

I tried something different to make the lizard shape stand out. I used organza on the top and cut away the extra around the shape before doing the thread work for the leaves and the tree trunk.

The pictures are the rough sketch that Mark helped me with, a close up and the completed quilt top.