Liberated Challenge Quilt

Well, I promised you pictures of the finished baby quilt, but it will have to wait til I can get outside and shovel a path to the clothesline, probably tomorrow, since I’m feeling lazy today.  I tried laying the quilt on my bed and taking pictures, but between the lighting and my cat, and other logistic problems, I think I can do a better job just pinning it up to the clothesline outside and taking pictures outdoors.  Since there’s probably 18 inches of snow on the ground, I either have to break a trail or clear a path.

"New Territory" by Robert Bertram

So instead, I’ll show you what I’m doing with my Liberated Challenge Quilt for the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative.  Lots of ideas were perking in my head, but inspiration struck this morning, in my basement, of all places.

My hubby picked up this poster last year at the local DNR office.  When I went down to the basement this morning to put the baby quilt in the washer,  the poster caught my attention.  Here was my subject!

Tracing around wolf's outline on tracing paper

I taped some tracing paper to the wall and traced around the image of the wolf.

Auditioning fabrics for the AAQI Challenge quilt

The finished quilt will be around eight by eleven inches.  I wanted to make the wolf smaller, so  I used the old artist’s trick of putting a grid on the tracing, so I could make the image smaller.  This is a slick trick for those of us who can’t draw!

Here are the fabrics I’m thinking about using.  The wolf will be cut from the gray batik, and the snow from the lighter fabrics.  You can’t really see the fabric under the gray piece, but it gives the effect of snowflakes.  I’m thinking of using it for part of the sky.

I’m trying to decide if the wolf should be isolated on a whte background, like in the poster, or if he should be coming out from some pieced or appliqued trees.   At this point I’m leaning towards using the smaller wolf image by itself, appliqued to a background made by using the Wave Runner Tutorial from V at Bumble Beans.

I’m thinking of calling it “Winter Journey,” to symbolize the journey Alzheimer’s patients and their families must make.  I want to symbolize hope by having the wolf moving towards a patch of blue sky. I also have a piece of light-colored batik with pale multicolor spirals on it, too, that may work.   But we’ll see how it all plays out.  Sometimes a project takes over and tells you how it wants to be done!

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