There are a total of 6 challenges for Project Quilting. Usually at this part of the Project Quilting challenges, I participate in fewer of them, so I didn't know how long they last. I've been doing better this year because I decided to add a challenge to the challenge. Make a quilt you already want to make. That is how I managed the red and white quilt I made last time.
This week, the challenge is to make a quilt that is inspired by a book that I've read. I've been told that twisting the rules is a way to show off my creativity.
The challenge immediately made me think of this elephant. I had watched the Mary Fons video. She had given a link to an Artificial Intelligence website that makes drawings for you. I played with it quite a while and it came up with this drawing of a patchwork elephant. It had five legs, and when I asked it to keep going and complete the drawing, it just added a different elephant made in a different style.
Anyway, making this patchwork elephant is on my list of quilts to make. And I had pink fabric on the table from the pink challenge and I had been using pink fabric for the Dust Off an Old Book blog hop project, so a pink elephant sounded good.
All I had to do was find a book about pink elephants. There were several, but I needed something that as big enough to be a novel and quick to read. Here's the book I found:
I pressed them down and cut out the shapes. It is always so ugly and scary at this point.
15 comments:
Cute! Love the eyelash. What is the name or link to the AI website? Sounds like it would be fun to play with.
What a cute elephant, and what better color than pink!
Looks like this was fun from beginning to end, with a delightful finish!
Absolutely darling. You do the funnest things.
How precious! Thank you for sharing your inspiration and sequence with photos.
I love your elephant.... so much texture...
Hugz
Yup, the eyebrow is totally awesome and the elephant is adorable. However, I must take issue with your approach of using Project Quilt to make quilts that you want to make because it is too smart and emotionally mature.
I adore this! Elephants are my favorite!
Fabulous! I love the design and the colour scheme.
Wonderful! So glad you found a book to match. My first thought was the children's book about Elmer the Elephant, because the colors the computer gave you are a lot like him. =) There are 17 books and the original has been reprinted many times.
I love her!
Too cute!!! You could've went with the "Elmer the Patchwork Elephant" series, too--children's books. Love those eyelashes!!!
SEE?!?! It works!!! You added your own spin on the challenge and ended up with an amazing project (and a new book to read.)
Your elephant is so cute! What a great back story for that mini quilt. Congrats on all the stitching time to date. You've done so well with all your metrics so far this year. Hopefully this week has been as good.
Well done! And yes, you've got the Japanese right. It is interesting to me how you get your shapes made with pressing onto fusible materials. It sounds like a good way to put small scraps to use.
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