GLAD TO BE BACK

Hi everyone! Glad to be back quilting again - and slightly less stressed out. My arm still hurts in places but the hand is much better. Still I have to be careful not to overdo, so I'll type little and post pics more, OK?

I am happy to report that I finished my round-robin homework. Remember, it came to me this way (left). The assignment this round was "any form of applique."

If you recall my thinking process, I mentioned Andy Warhol dancers, but was mistaken, it was, as Irene said, Keith Haring dancers that came to mind. I was going to put a square border, but it would've needed to be very thick to separate from the busy-ness, and even then I decided it did not separate enough. What to do? Why, turn it on it's head, of course! This was a hard decision because I knew that Ellen wanted to keep her center as squares, not diamonds, but nothing else satisfied me. If I had more time, I would have turned it again on point and added black triangles, with twisty arrows pointing outward appliqued in that toned down red and white that is the background here. I showed it to Ellen already, and she loved it, and she would have loved it even more if I turned it again. But the next quilt meet is tomorrow, and it's time to put this homework assignment to rest.

Here are the drawings I made, freehand, based on some web browsing on Haring. I put my guys on a diet as you can see!

Thought you might like to see some close-ups of the appliques. This first one's my favorite: