Exercises are posted in reverse date order... most recent first. Please scroll down. Click on images to enlarge some of them.

Calendar: First THURSDAY of the month, 1:00pm

February Meeting at Elaine's - Feb. 3rd, 2022


Kitty's Leaf Challenge	Elaine's UFO (work in progress)	Elaine's Quilt

Becky's "Grand Entrance" (work in progress)	Jenn's Red Poppies (work in proogress)

December Meeting at Jenn's home


Leti's Handmade Embroidered Dress"	Leti's Holiiday Pillow Prize	Leti's Table Mat

Kitty's Leaves (work in progress)	Becky's Baby Quilt	Becky's Redwood Trees (work in progress)

Jenn's "Machine" challenge (work in progress)	Jenn's Garden Wall (work in progress)	Jenn's Christmas Wall Hanging

Meeting at Becky's home, Nov, 2021


Sue's Xmas Stockings"	Becky's Underwater Reef

Meeting at Elaine's - Sept, 2021


Elaine's "Rockin'Jerry"	Elaine's sample blocks (work in progress)

Kitty's Forest (work in progress)	Jenn's Ice Dyeing Brushed Steel from Dharma

Leti's Mola Block (work in progress)	Leti's Rose of Sharon (work in progress)

Garden Meeting at Christina's - Aug, 2021

Kitty in her new kitchen

hanging the group's
surprise collaborative quilt gift


Leti's flower banner detail (work in progress)	Leti's Placemats (work in progress)

Jenn's 3D "Friendly Bugs" Pointless Sisters Challenge	Jenn's "Covid with Friends" Friendship quilt

Kitty's Farwell Meeting at Jenn's - June 4thth

	Kitty with Christina
	Fearless Designers (Left to Right) Sherri, Christina, Kitty, Jenn, Becky, Sue, Elaine (Leti missing)

Leti's Garden Meeting - May 6th


		Let's Garden


Becky's Baby Quilt (work in progress)	Quilt Back	Applique Detail

Leti's Altered 9 Patch (work in progress)	9 Patch Back	Leti's Drunker's Path

Spring Gathering at Becky's - April 2nd


Sue's Radiant Sun	Elaine's Llama	Kitty's Placemats

Meetings at Elaine's and Kitty's Homes - February and March


Kitty's Hearts Banner	Sue's Quilt Top	Elaine's Leaves	Leti's Quilt

Kitty's Quilt	Kitty's Mice	Kitty's Stars Quilt

Meeting at Sherri's in December

Sue's Village Quilt


Sue's Cross-stitch Stocking for Lexie	Elaine's Holiday Runner	Sherri's Halloween Quilt	Sherri's Garden Quilt

Kitty's niffty gift	Jenn's "New Dawn" (Better with border removed)	Jenn's P.S. Challenge Quilt "Path Towards Calm"	Leti's "Conchas de Colores" (work in progress)

Meeting at Elaine's in November

It was CRAZY cold outside and worth every minute shared together!


Becky's Baby Quilt (work in Progress)	Kitty's Safari Paths Challenge	Kitty's Leaf Challenge	Christina's Grandson's Quit Work in Progress

Sue's Xmas Decorations	Elaine's Baby Quilt (work in progress)	Sherri's Classrrom Quilt	Jenn's "New Dawn"

Meeting at Leti's in October

Christina's Wedding Quit
Work in Progress


Becky's Dragonfly"	Kitty's Path Quilt (work in progress)
Jenn's Fiber Reactive Dye panels

Meeting at Becky's in August and Kitty's in September, 2020

	Leaf Challenge Reveal Shared Progress
Elaine's Leaf Basket"		Sue's Leaf Challenge

Leti's Leaf Challenge" Welcome Leti to our Mini group	Kitty's Leaf Challenge (Work in Progress)	Christina's Leaf Challenge

Becky's Leaf Challenge"		Becky's Cut Work (Work in Progress)


Becky's T-Shirt Quit" (Work in Progress)	Christina's Cityscape	Elaine's Strip Blocks


Kitty's "Wheels" front	Kitty's "Wheels" back

Kitty's "Color Spectrum" front	Kitty's "Color Spectrum" back

July 10th Reunion with leaf panels


Christina at play....		Elaine's Fabulously Organized Stash


Becky's "Barbara You Are My Sunshine"	Becky's Redwoods (Work in Progress)	Elaine's Storm At Sea

Elaine's Cats	Elaine's Dog	Kitty's Rainbow (Work in Progress)

Christina's Stars (Work in Progress)	Jenn's "Path" Challenge (Work In Progress))

Catching up with Show-n-Tells...June 2019 to June 2020


Becky's Bouquet	Becky's Beach	Becky's Portraits

Sherri's Dyna-Flow Panel	Christina's Otis	Christina's Landscape

Kitty's Cityscape Challenge	Kitty's "Orange Ya Glad"	Kitty's "Fit To Be Tied" Quilt

Kitty's Whale Quilt	Kitty's Scrappy Octagon Quilt from Fern Royce wksp	Sherri's Xmas Panels

Sherri's Tote Bag (Front)	Sherri's Tote Bag (Back)	Sue's Spirals

Jenn's Teal Banner	Jenn's "From A Distance"	Sherri's Heart Coasters

Jenn's Jelly Roll Quilt	Christina's (title?)	Kitty's "Sonoma Strong"

Jenn's Waterfall Quilt	Kitty's "Shelter In Place"	Jenn's "Rosalile's World"

Kitty's Block Quilt	Kitty's "50th Birthday" (to her son) Quilt	Kitty's "Blue Ridge Mountains" from Diana Roberts workshop

UFOs and Other Shares - May 3, 2019


Christina's Mural (Work in Progress)	Sue's Book Blocks (Work in Progress)	Kitty's City (Work in Progress)

Elaine's Circles	Elaine's Hawaiian Blocks (Work in Progress)	Kitty's Bow Ties (Work in Progress)

Sherri's Bunny Quilt	Sherri's Pinwheel Quilt (purchased top from unknown quilter)	Kitty's Hand Dye

Jenn's COTS Top	Jenn's COTS Top	Jenn's Costa Maya
	Sue's Banner

PORTRAIT CHALLENGE - March and April


Christina's Otis (Work in Progress)	Sue's Great Grandaughter	Kitty at 10 (Work in Progress)

Elaine's Grandpa	Jenn's Self-portrait "She's Such A Puzzle"	Becky's (Work in Progress)

SHOW-N-TELL - February, March and April


Elaine's Butterflies Lisa Thorpe Workshop	Christina's UFO	Becky's Coast	Becky's Barbara Confer Workshop

Sherri's Lisa Thorpe Workshop	Kitty's Basket	Sue's Finished Sun Print Block	Elaine's Valentine quilt

	Sherri's Alphabet Quilt	Sherri's Trapunto Judy Schumacher Workshop

POSTCARD VALENTINES - Feb 1st, 2019


Elaine	Christina

Kitty	Jenn

SUN PRINT REVEALS - Jan. 4th, 2019 Happy New Year


Becky (Work in Progress)	Christina (Work in Progress)	Elaine (Work in Progress	Jenn (Work in Progress)

Show-N-Tell

Sue's COTS Quilts
Christina's Kaffe Quilts
Sherri's Christmas Wall Quilt
Kitty's Library Banner

MAKING SUN PRINT WHOLE CLOTH - Nov 2nd 2018

Becky
Kitty


Sue (Work in Progress)
Sherri

Jenn

Show-N-Tell


Becky's (Luminosity) Trout	Elaine's Bats

Christina's (Transparancy) Quilt	Kitty's PQG Library Banner (Work in Progress)

REVISITING TRANSPARENCY AND LUMINOSITY - Aug 2018


Becky	Sue	Elaine	Jenn

Other Show-n-tells
	Kitty's Blocks	Kitty's Fire Quilt

SHOW-N-TELL - July 2018

THEY'RE DONE!

Diana Roberts Workshop
	Becky	Sue	Elaine

Becky
Christina
Elaine
Kitty
Jenn

TRANSPARENCY AND LUMINOSITY CHALLENGE - June 2018


Elaine	Sue	Sherri	Jenn


Elaine's Transparency Quilt	Kitty's Fire Quilts (in progress)	Jenn's Abstract "Mueller's Investigation"

SHOW-N-TELL - May 2018


Kitty's Friendship Block Quilt	Becky's (in progress) Rosalie Dace Wksp	Kitty's (in progress) "Fire" Quilt start	Elaine's Day of the Dead

Sherri's (in progress) Barbara Confer Wksp	Elaine's Barbara Confer Wksp	Jenn's Barbara Confer Wksp	Jenn's Mini Quilt

STACK AND SLASH CHALLENGE - March 2018


Sue	Becky	Kitty	Elaine

Sue	Sherri	Christina	Jenn
Christina's "Right As Rain" PIQF Entry			Kitty and Christina's PIQF Entry

Sharing our own projects with the group - February 2nd 2018

Becky
Christina
Sherri
Sue
Jenn		Jenn and Metha's PIQF Collaboration

SUE CARLSON SPIRAL CHALLANGE REVEALED - Nov/Dec 2017

	Color	Color Removed		Color	Color Removed
Becky			Christina
Elaine			Kitty
Sherri			Sue
Jenn

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE CHALLENGE
Part I Blocks - Sept 1st 2017
Part II Blocks - Oct 6th 2017


Becky's Start	Finished by Elaine	Elaine's Start	Finished by Becky

Metha's Start	Finished by Christina	Jenn's Start
Finished by Marianne

Christina's Start	Finished by Kitty	Marianne's Start	Finished by Metha

Kitty's Start
Finished by Jenn

Sharing our own projects with the group - April through July, 2017

Becky
Metha
Marianne
Kitty
Christina
Jennifer

Our mini group originally came together to focus on doing exercises as presented in the book "Fearless Design for Every Quilter" by Lorraine Torrence and Jean B Mills. The purpose of these photos below are soley for our group's referance and are quick studies only so many may be lacking in quality. Sorry... they are certainly not color accurate either but hopefully the information needed will translate anyway.

Exercise 8:
MAINTAINING UNITY USING PANELS - Mar 3, 2017

Select a panel you already have and recreate another composition using all or part of it


Becky's Panel	Elaine's Panel	Elaine's Quilt (bonus)

Kitty's Panel	Marianne's Panel	Jennifer's Panel

Metha's Panel	Christina passed

Exercise 7:
USING IMAGES FROM YOUR SURROUNDINGS - Feb 3, 2017

Pick one, two or all three photos (from pg. 58) to inspire your intrepretation of these images.


Becky's "Grease"	Christina's "Canyon"	Elaine's "Mudflats"

Marianne's "Mudflats"	Marianne's "Canyon"	Marianne's "Grease"

Kitty's "Canyon"	Jennifer's "Mudflats"	Metha passed

Exercise 6:
WORDS THAT INSPIRE DESIGN - Jan 6, 2017

(From list on page 53) Select a noun and create a motif that represents this word. Select a verb for ideas on how to use this motif.

You can click on images to go to larger images now... yay


Becky's combined assignments	Christina's "Multiplied" Blue Moon Green Tides	Elaine's "Petals" "Spiraling"

Marianne's "Pyramid" "Elongated" and "Simplified"	Marianne's "Pyramid" "Sliced"	Metha's "Stamp" "Sliced/Expanded"

Jenn's "Tile" "Exploding"	Kitty's "Houses" "Tilting"	Kitty's "Black, White, One Color"

Exercise 5:COLOR - Sept 2,2016

A seven part assignment: 1) Design a composition, 2) Achromatic intrepetation, 3) Monochromatic color scheme,
4) Analogous color scheme, 5) one of the Complimentary options, 6) Triadic color scheme, 7) Polychomoatic color scheme.

	Achromatic	Monochromatic	Analogous	Complementary	Triadic	Polychromatic
Elaine
Kitty
Mariane
Metha
Jennifer
Becky	We all missed you Becky
Christina	Great to have you back Christina
Lolli	We all missed you Lolli

Left:
Kitty's "Tetradic" Collage
Green, Orange, Red-Violet, Blue

Right:
Christina's "Anaglous"
(in progress)Collage

Exercise 4: IDENTIFYING VALUE IN COLOR - Aug 6, 2016

Design a balanced composition #1) with achromatice values, #2) with same values as #1 but using color, #3) with same values as #1 but using different colors, #4) using same commposition with different values, #5) using different color values that are NOT balanced

	Achromatic	Color Subsitute Same Values	Different Colors Same Values	Same Composition Different Color Values	Values out of Balance
Becky
Christina	We all missed you Christina	Get better soon...
Elaine
Kitty
Lolli
Mariane
Metha
Jennifer

Exercise 3: SCALE, VALUE AND BALALNCE - jULY 1, 2016

Choose any color of fabrics you like; however each fabric must represent 1 of the 5 light to dark values relative to the other selected fabrics. Cut acording to pg.33 instructions. Make one arrangement symmetrical and the other 2 asymmetrical on 3 separate 16" squares.