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My landmarks challenge for the  International Quilt Challenge is based on the stone walls in the Burren. I've recently finished making a quilt which is part of a group entry for this year's Festival of Quilts. After cutting my FoQ quilt to size I had a good few pieces of quilted fabric left-over, so I decided to incorporate them into my landmarks challenge (waste not, want not!) The left-over strips were satin-stitched together and I added a very thin binding to finish off the quilt.

I'm currently a member of the International Quilt Challenge . Every two months we have a different challenge, the most recent challenge theme was through "Through the Window" so here's what I submitted for that challenge. A contemporary quilting group I'm involved with (Genesis Patchwork) are currently working on a group project about the Burren. So I decided to use my "Through the Window" piece as a sample piece for my Burren project. I have a number of photographs of old church windows and ruins so I took 2 of this photo's and turned them into a thermofax screen. Then I screen-printed the windows onto hand-dyed fabric. This photo of a window in Carron Church was used to create one of the thermofax screens

The 2nd challenge for the International Quilt Challenge  has just been announced - it's "Through the Window". I actually quite this like this theme, and I have a number of photographs of windows so have plenty of inspiration to work from. Photo taken at Noughaval Church in the Burren Kilfenora Church

I'm a member of the International Quilt Challenge group, and for our 1st challenge we had to create a quilt on the theme of "light and shadows". The deadline for the 1st challenge was today. I'm just after posting my challenge piece over in the International Quilt Challenge blog. My piece was based on a photograph I took in Fuengirola, Spain while on holiday there a few years ago. One of the footpaths in the town had a number of coloured concrete balls all the way up the street which caught my eye. I've always meant to make something textile-related using the photograph, so this challenge was the perfect excuse to use the photograph. Here's the original photograph that was my inspiration for the light and shadows challenge