Team #1 - Telephone Quilt Game 2024

Remember the "Telephone Game" when we were kids? Sit in a circle and send a whispered message once around around.  The last person shares what they heard & the change from the beginning can be quite funny. 

This is the same concept but we start with a photo. Each Team has 4 quilters. Each quilter picks something from the photo that inspires them and creates a mini-quilt.  A photo of that quilt is sent to the next Team member, and so forth.  None of the Team members see each others mini-quilts until the reveal today!
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Original photo to start the Game

#2 Tomi S (Santa Rosa, CA)

#4 Hilde (New Zealand)

#1. Mini quilt by Pauline H (Vancouver, Canada)

#3 Mary Ann H (Santa Rosa, CA)

Notes from Team #1 Quilters:
#1 Pauline:  After a lot of hair pulling and teeth gnashing I finally put the last stitch in my "interpretation" of the beautiful Team 1 photo.  I really thought hard about this project and decided to give myself a week to just study the picture and let some ideas percolate.  Not many satisfactory ideas came though and I found that I just spent most of my time thinking about clouds in general.  The strong image of the reflected clouds together with the hot pink and primary blue colours kept me coming back to Joni Mitchell's songs Both Sides Now and Blue.  It could have just been fear of getting started on a project that was way above my skill level but I actually got a lot out of the time I spent meditating on clouds.  I remembered an incredible twenty minutes spent circling down through a surreal formation of pink cloud puffs in a blue blue sky over a Mexican airport while we waited for clearance to land.  I never wanted to forget that and haven't.  But, unfortunately when it comes to recreating clouds in a little art piece, I just had to admit finally that I really don't know clouds at all. 

​#4 Hilde: When I saw Mary Ann’s quilt with the bird applique I knew right away what my telephone quilt was going to be about. Outside my kitchen is a bird bath, which I set up many years ago. It is highly frequented by the birds in my garden. I did not have to wait long to take pictures that I could use to make templates.  The quilt is showing the resident blackbird making a big splash during its daily visit.
 Techniques used:  Bird – thread painted, Bowl and greenery – raw edge machine applique, Water drops - beads. Woodchip area – fabric confetti (held in place with wash-away while densely  stitched down, then washed)