Waves of Blue by Sue Johnson for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
Story: With an adjustable monkey wrench on my mind, I headed to my stash. The surfing monkeys caught my eye and it became "all about the monkeys". Here they are, surfing through two big waves of blue. To embellish, I followed the ROYGBIV theme and attached a tatted B for Blue.
Blue Monkey Wrench by Sherri Moening for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
Story: I had fun making the monkey wrench block. I chose to make 4 of them for the center of the flower. I used buttons and beads and crystals for embellishments. Highlights were done with paint sticks.
‘Monkey Business’ by Zeeda Magnuson for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
I truly enjoy challenges, and this opportunity spoke to me. The monkey wrench block is a favorite of mine, so I knew I had to add a monkey showing the exuberance I have for participating in this seven month challenge. I look forward to the June 1st to see the next installment.
“A Different Perspective” by Nancy Kazlauckas for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
That old saying: "someone threw a monkey wrench into my plans" means I need to look at things from a different perspective and look at the big picture.
You can see this in the three monkey wrenches: the original plan is represented in the upper right, the perspective is below it and the big picture is painted in the background.
Silly Tomatoes Quilt for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
by Nancy Hutchinson
This color challenge using the beautiful scarlet red in the Cherrywood said "tomatoes" to me. My young nephews were here to visit over spring break (they were thrilled with the Georgia weather and did lots of digging ). I did buy 2 large plants, we got them in the ground , and I send a photo to their Mom to let them see the plant growth. I varied the size of the reds in the pieced blocks, and enjoyed the off set with strip pieced samples from a class but had to improvise to come up with the correct size for the challenge. The hands are actually drawn from photos of Lincoln and Sully's hands, then raw edge appliqued.
Monkey Madness Quilt for the Focus Through the Prism Challenge.
by Leslie Carmichael
I've always loved RaNae Merrill's mandala quilts so I took a class
from her a few years ago. I've been wanting to make some type of
spiral quilt since taking that class. I saw my mirrors in a drawer
when I decided to do this challenge so I thought I'd try a spiral
quilt. I divided a circle into eight sections and began playing with
different size monkey wrench's until I came up with this design. I
needed something to complete the quilt so I added the bars in the
corners. The middle looked so bare, I added the star to the center. I
used yellow cherrywood fabric for the monkey wrenches and after
finishing the quilt, I realized I needed red cherrywood on the quilt
since it read red, so the trim on the bars and star are red cherrywood
fabric.
This has been so much fun, I'm looking forward to next month's challenge.
Karen Golden’s quilt ‘More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys’ for the May Focus Through the Prism Challenge – Monkey Wrench.
I have monkey wrench pattern, monkeys and orange....so much fun to work them all together. Thanks for thinking this challenge up. I look forward to next month ! Karen Golden
