May Meeting Reveal

Our May meeting was the reveal of our Telephone challenge. For anyone that doesn’t know what a telephone challenge is let me explain.  It is akin to the child’s game of telephone where one person says something to the next person and they repeat what they heard to the next and so on, until it gets to the last person who says what they heard and everyone laughs at how distorted the original words were changed by each person.

One person creates a quilt based upon an idea or photo. I was that person which also made me the keeper of the quilts. I was the only one to see all of the quilts. The second person saw only my quilt and did their interpretation of that quilt. They returned mine to me and passed theirs to the next person who made a quilt based on the second quilt. The second quilt then came to me and the process continued until all the participants completed their quilts. Passing these quilts was done without others in the group seeing any of the quilts.  So now for the reveal.

I began with a composite of 2 photos of Chippewa Lake amusement park after the elements had gotten the better of the rides. I called it: Childhood memories…Forgotten in Time

Sharon went next and only worked from my piece. She saw the ferris wheel as a clock and remembered all the time she spent on her Gramma’s porch swing

Sharon M. kept said Sharon’s quilt made her think of feeling serene and so her quilt was her serenity of sitting in a comfy chair with a good book and her kitty.

Bev found the serenity in Sharon’s quilt and recalled sitting at Lake Erie with her cat watching the sailboats at sunset.

Jean found Bev’s water calming and restful and thought of where she felt that way at home, so she created a whimsical house that made her feel energetic, happy and creative.

Shirley saw home and it made her think of her ancestral home in Scotland. She went on the web and found a picture of the home and recreated it in her quilt. She called it Fortitude

Cindy saw the fortitude and thought of a fortress which reminded her of growing up Lutheran and the church. She created her stone church complete with a graveyard.