Challenge 58 - Celtic Quilts

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge #58 – Celtic Quilts Host Pam Clark

Top o’ the mornin’ to all of you. Put your Irish thinking caps on and choose any subject matter, but put an Irish spin on it. You can go with Celtic designs or Irish chains or create an Irish scene. You can finish your project off with a Celtic chain border, or use a Celtic design as the focal point, or you could include the Irish chain pattern as part of your quilt. Regretfully, I’m going to be late finishing my own challenge, since I will be out of town from June 18 – 27^th and my sister from Portland will be spending the week of June 28-July 2 with me. I hope you all have fun with this topic. I know it’s not the month of March and St. Patrick’s day, but I’m an Irish descendent, and I know that there are lots of Irish symbols that can be integrated into your quilts somehow. Irish art and folklore offers a lot of springboards for ideas. If you Google Irish quilts or Irish art or Celtic Quilts, you will get lots of hits. Below are several links that might give you ideas. May the’ luck o’ the Irish’ be with you in this challenge.

http://www.quiltersmuse.com/Irish_quilts.htm

http://www.irishquilting.ie/Irish_Quilting/home.html

http://www.amishcountrylanes.com/Pages/hs1685.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/6f76qmf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra#Celtic_art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7665648@N04/4270396918/ (This is a picture of Jaynette Huff’s “Mantle” using Celtic designs around the fire place and in the borders.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7665648@N04/4270385108/in/photostream/

This quilt uses Celtic designs as space filler in the corners.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7665648@N04/4266872759/in/photostream/

This quilt uses an Irish chain motif across the bottom as a space filler.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martingaleandcompany/4011724787/in/photostream/

This quilt also uses Celtic designs as space fillers around the flower arrangement.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martingaleandcompany/3859987152/in/photostream/

Irish chain quilt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martingaleandcompany/3859987152/in/photostream/

http://tinyurl.com/6ky6dg3

http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/IrishChain/IrishChain.html

http://www.womenfolk.com/quilt_pattern_history/irishchain.htm

http://www.5min.com/Video/Irish-Chain-Patch-Quilt-Block-100310655

http://tinyurl.com/6kgk6n6

http://tinyurl.com/6h28uzg

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486237966

http://www.doverpublications.com/zb/samples/991113/art72.htm (look at the different samples)

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486991091 (vector motifs)

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/048699953X

Celtic Alphabets

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486995151

The link above is excellent. It lets you go page by page through several pages of Celtic designs.

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486997995

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486995917

http://seeinside.doverpublications.com/dover/0486289869

http://tinyurl.com/6cls8f7

http://tinyurl.com/6ex4m6d

http://www.ancient-symbols.com/irish-symbols.html

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/celtic-symbols.html

http://symboldictionary.net/?page_id=3

http://www.scarlettrose.com/celtic_quilt_patterns.html

http://www.scarlettrose.com/celtic_quilt_patterns_2.html

http://www.celticquilts.com/gallery.html

http://www.clanbadge.com/craft.htm

(Be sure to page all the way down. There are numerous examples of Celtic designs.