Just as the season opened for quilt shows here in So Cal, they have all been canceled or postponed. One was canceled the night before it opened. So many people are so sad but understand the necessity of trying to avoid the virus and to keep the cases from overwhelming the health system. Our show is due for the end of April and while a decision has not been made yet, I am sure we will be in lock down by then. Our guild meeting and workshop have been canceled for this upcoming week.
But in the mean time, we had a challenge for the show and this is my entry. Come below for further blather.
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This is titled “The Times of His Life” and shown is the Vortex Time Clock, Tardis, the Police Call box that’s really a time traveling space ship, and Dr Who, this one being David Tennant. Dr Who reincarnates from time to time, as it were. I chose him because he is the cutest and most recognizable in silhouette. The challenge fabric was the beige pieces with the Vortex Time Clock printed on it now. It had some clocks, some measuring tapes and sticks, postage stamps, linear measurements, and various numbers. The title of our quilt show is “A Stitch in Time” and the prompt for the challenge was “The Time of My Life”. It was restricted to 14” square, in any arrangement you wanted. I did not set out to make a tortilla warmer, but this is how it ended up. I had a 14” sq that I cut into eight pieces and sewed back together to get a kind of swirl and then I had to make it some geometrical shape which turned out to be a circle. I printed the Vortex Time Clock twice on the fabric and stitched around the spirals. I didn’t like one, ended up cutting it for the two flying wing shapes and the bottom inset. I printed Tardis and Dr. Who on blue fabric, inked in the silhouette of the Dr and stitched around him and the door jambs. I quilted the circle before I adhered the appliques and stitched around them.
I am not a big Dr. Who fan but I liked the clock graphic a lot and it fit the bill for me. I don’t expect to win and probably a lot of the ladies will have no inkling who Dr. Who is but I bet there will not be another like it in the challenge entries.