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Junes Flash Make! Official Thread! EXTENDED to 14th July!

Iminei

Junes Flash Make! Official Thread! EXTENDED to 14th July!
« on: May 22, 2022, 13:01:08 PM »
Hi there, I realise Ive been pretty quiet on here this year and the Darkside seems to have been languishing in the Doldrums a bit recently

BUT...

Were back with a

TSP Darkside 1st Flash Make 
JUNE 2022

I would like you to a find pictures of TILES;
Tiles have been around for centuries in all the major cultures of the world

They decorate paths, hallways, walls, ceilings, roofs, courtyards, temples, churches ....
Tiles are everywhere!

Choose any image that takes your fancy
and make a block from it!

You can choose to make a miniature block, 6"  8" or 12" block or even larger
as a stand alone wall hanging

YOU have to work out the dimensions, technique and colour scheme.

Here are a few images to get you started

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A lot of you may have tiled areas to take inspiration from in your homes
as in the last pic, which is of my redecorated hallway (Yay Lockdown!)

This will run throughout JUNE ending on the 30th.

This has been extended to end 14th July!

Please post pics throughout showing inspiration, materials, progress and completed block
and I will amalgamate them into an album.

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Acorn

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2022, 13:11:50 PM »
Mmmmm...  :thinking:
I might look as though I'm talking to you, but inside my head I'm sewing.

Pearl

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2022, 13:12:03 PM »
Do I have to finish this in June?  I'm going to make the pattern in my hallway!  Plan to make a FPP pattern.  Hope to work less in June but I always say that!

Iminei

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2022, 13:22:55 PM »
Yes you got me, told you Im not 100% ...

This will run through June not May (considering theres only a lil of May left!  :rolleyes:  )

I would also like to credit @PBear  for the idea and impetus! Thank you Hon  :hug:
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Pearl

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2022, 13:39:59 PM »
Thanks, @PBear

I love it when what is happening on here coincides with what I want to do.


StitchinTime

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2022, 08:53:39 AM »
I might be up for this, though I have no tiled hallway to inspire me, but I'm sure Google will help with that.

Iminei

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2022, 15:53:29 PM »
Indeedy Dr Google is your friend ... or your camera phone when youre walking around historic houses.
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Lowena

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2022, 15:57:20 PM »
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The photo is sideways for some reason :D
Triumph of hope over experience :D

Sheilago

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2022, 08:26:32 AM »
I have a tiled porch, but I’m not sure it would help with inspiration.

 I went to photo it and looking at it with a critical eye after living here for over 30 years, I saw that the tradesmen of 1904 were not too fussy. No ‘unpicking’ here when they made a mistake in the pattern :embarrassed:  ( Dog trying to get in on the picture as usual!)
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Iminei

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2022, 08:35:41 AM »
I must be Psychic ...

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 :laughing: Only kidding I made this last February when I was playing round with a BOM idea ...

3/4" finished in case youre wondering!
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Celia

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2022, 09:32:01 AM »
@Iminei that has given me an idea for the quilted jacket just 2 fabrics :thinking: :thinking: love those colours

SewRuthieSews

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2022, 12:30:49 PM »
I think this is a great idea @Iminei.

Our bungalow was updated all in one go by the last owners and has white subway tiling with black grout in the shower, round the bath and basins and behind the cooker. I can't complain really as I did something similar when I replaced the kitchen in my old house before I sold it, though I went with off white tiles and pale grey grout which gave a gentler look.

So my June flash make will be using this sort of tiling scheme, perhaps with sashing, perhaps on the diagonal.
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Sheilago

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2022, 12:52:46 PM »
This is a good idea @Iminei . Have spent a good hour looking at Glasgow tenement tiling- Glasgow is famous for the beautiful Victorian and Edwardian tiles in the entranceways ( closes). Found this bright one, which I might use as better inspiration than my porch, if I get time in June. I’d need to do some fmq in the yellow sections!   [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]  

Catllar

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2022, 12:03:44 PM »
Lovely idea but I'm not feeling up to anything at the mo. Yesterday at hospital, surgeon casually said " we might have to remove the bladder but it's not a big job ."  Hello? What? It's not a darn tooth we're talking here - knocked me back a bit to be fair! We are talking another major surgery and a permanent stoma.  Might not be much to him but we don't feel the same!
If life gives you lemons, add to gin and tonic !

realale

Re: Junes Flash Make!
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2022, 13:20:47 PM »
Love those tiles and colours @Sheilago.
I have plain white square tiles in the kitchen (here when we bought the house) so I suppose I could enter a white sheet and call it quits?!!  :laughing:
So many beers, so little time.