Out of Bounds Challenges

I belong to a small group of textile artists called Out of Bounds. Every three months we have a challenge set by one of our members. The rules for 2012 were that the piece should be A3 in size, either portrait or landscape. The rest of the rules are set by the challenger.

In 2013, we choose the size, A2.

Winter 2013

As the size was bigger, I decided to try my Dales piece again but larger. The challenge was Gill' s, the theme Winter and the colours were black, white and one other.

Spring Layers 2013

This was Yvonne's challenge - the theme Spring Layers and colours green and yellow.

The design on this piece is not great but I learnt a lot about both design and colour

Summer 2013

This was Sue's challenge. The theme was summer and Sue went and took lots of photos in the Reading University Grounds. We are to base our composition on these photos. Here is the piece I made, Summer Reflection - back to the way I like to piece

Ode to Autumn 2013

This was my challenge for 2013 and I set the theme as "Ode to Autumn", a poem by Keats. The colours were reds and greens and two others.

Boundaries 2012

This challenge was set by Gill in January and we revealed our work in April. My piece is called The Dales and is based on a picture I found on the Guardian website. The grey sky is hand dyed fabric. The quilt is pieced and stitched by machine and hand.

Constraints 2012

This challenge was set by Yvonne in April, revealed in June and was very difficult!! I choose one of my pictures of local Saxon earthworks known as Wansdyke.

It is constructed of hand dyed shibori. The threads are couched down using the embellisher. The grasses at the bottom are hand stitched and the fence, the constrait, is machined.

Shibori 2012

This piece is called Walnut Whip. Karen set this challenge as well as making sure we had a workshop playing with shibori techniques. We revealled this challenge in September.ice

Walnut Whip reminds me of icecream! It is constructed of fabrics shibored in potassium permanganent - lovely colours as the result of pole wrapping. It was free motion quilts and contributed to the demise of my Juki which had to go to the machine mechanic!

Out of the Box 2012

This is the challenge which I set to be revealed in December. I gave everyone a box in which the piece was to fit. Not sure it was a great idea - but most of us managed a piece.