Home Challenge

 We are looking forward to seeing all the Home Challenge pieces at this month's meeting.

The group certainly stepped up and we had an amazing display of such a wide variety of takes on the subject of Home.  

Deborah

SHELTER LONG AGO

(City of Paris, Phoenix Mountain Grand Forks BC)

My husband and I are avid hikers and we enjoy spending time in the wilderness. Sometimes during our treks we encounter abandoned structures from the past.

Phoenix Mountain was once an active mining area in the Kootenays, with the City of Paris providing some amenities. I imagine that long ago, this deserted and aging house was a home, which offered a reprieve from the toils of life in a turn of the century mining town.

I have created a picture which invites the viewer to experience the Autumn colours of Aspen trees, the cool water of the stream, the smell of the coniferous forest, and the intrigue of a Shelter Long Ago.

Christine

Home - Today and Tomorrow

I see my home as our planet and the need to look after it, therefore, my piece shows how it is today and what could happen if we don’t care for it.  My piece depicts scenes through a window and has a blue jay in one and its disintegrating feather in the other as all life will be impacted by the devastation that man can bring.

Techniques: Commercial and hand dyed fabric, raw edge piecing and appliqué as well as traditional piecing using attic window design.  Completed with free motion quilting and hand embroidery.

Elisabeth

Home can be many places. After leafing through many magazines to get ideas I finally decided to stay close to my home and create a modern landscape art quilt. I had fun creating this piece as I had to think outside the box. I could choose different coloured fabrics as I went along, embellish and then finish it with machine and hand stitching.

Joan

Pebble Beach

The attraction of spending my childhood close to the ocean and Lakes, has made us extremely happy to move to the beautiful Okanagan.

Every summer my family travels here to relax and enjoy our time by the beautiful Okanagan Lake .

Thats what makes it feel like home .

Shirley

Vernon is Home

What makes it home? Basically, the people. Our daughter is here and two of her daughters as well as three great grandchildren. It is our neighbours. It is the community of car people that we have become a part of and it is the community of quilters that are like family. You make it home. 

We also enjoy the trails and being able to camp nearby with our family.  I am a water person so love having the lakes to swim in or kayak on. We enjoy the mountains close by, the farms and the large varied number of birds along with the wildlife.

We have both lived in a number of places in BC but Vernon offers us everything we need and enjoy. 

Linda W.  (Work in progress)

Bev (work in progress)

Linda B.

There’s No Place Like Home

This piece expresses my gratitude for calling Canada home. The title, “There’s No Place Like Home,” perfectly captures how I feel about the opportunities and quality of life Canada has afforded us. We have been able to travel to many wonderful places, represented by the silver sequins, but I am always grateful to return home.

The blue sequins represent the Ball family and our Irish roots, while the green represents the Caverhill family, originating in Scotland. Each country is created in a colour that represents it in some way—for example, Japan is pink for the cherry blossoms. The multicoloured border represents the diversity found throughout the world and at home. The stitched line tethers Predator Ridge to New Zealand, which has become our second home.

Cathy

Three locations mean HOME to me,

1. windy Pincher Creek where myself and eight siblings resided.                                                              2. fruit packing Vernon, as this is where our daughters grew up.                                                                3. the sunny beaches of San Carlos, Mexico which included days of searching for sea glass and seashells.                                                      

HOME is where our loved ones and passions live. 

Linda K.   (Work in progress)

Is a House a Home?

Inspired by Yoko Santo's quilting book                                                                                                         I Love Houses.

Judith

Shortly after we moved to this house, some friends relocated to a home up in the hills of east Kelowna. As the man's nickname was "The Eagle", my husband made them a gate plate with "The Aerie" on it.  Since our last name is Beaver, we countered by naming our home "The Lodge".

Cath

I stayed close to home with my quilt, it is my studio.  I spend a lot of time here and am surrounded by colours and inspiration.  It is my sanctuary in difficult times, my favourite part of my home.