Hello quilters, here we are! Today it’s the same date when we started with our first Quilt Improv Studio game two years ago, and we celebrate it with the launch of a new challenge!
Just a little introduction to let you know how this new game was born.
While we were googling images for the recent QIS Primary colors challenge we saw a lot of Pop Art pictures that impressed us. Some days later Paola told us she thought to an hashtag for our new challenge: #qispopimprov. We liked it right away! It sounded a bit weird since this was the first time we decided to build a challenge starting from a keyword and its concept, thus the hashtag popped out at the beginning instead of the end!
Some explanations now: what do we mean for pop improv challenge? You don’t have to do something really similar to Pop Art but just think of your quilt as an expression occasion, such as a poster, to popularize improv patchwork. Something that hits! It means that we’d like to see an explosion of colors! This time we invite you not to use a limited palette, but to use the brightest and most phantasmagoric colors you can find! Also fluorescent! Solids or printed fabric, whatever you have in your stash. We have to be daring and to create quilts with a strong impact, high contrast in a really modern improv style. So what about using only complementary colors? Or do you prefer to use primary and secondary together? Just be careful not to get a rainbow effect.
As always, in the next few days, we will launch some surveys on Instagram to decide together some elements.
So, let’s start to think about how your work will be!
See you soon
Carla, Giovanna e Paola
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