The Jinny Beyer Challenge - Design Board Monday

Happy 4th Everyone - Thank God for Freedom and this wonderful country!!

Well taking a little break from the Crosses Series, to get working on my Jinny Beyer challenge.  You see our local quilt shop has issued a challenge in preparation for Jinny coming to lecture at this year's Quilting Around Chautauqua.  They hold this annual event at the famous Chautauqua Institute and there will be over 800 quilts there.  The challenge consists of you buying a complete 150 charm set of Jinny Beyer's fabric palette and then making some kind of project with using at least 25 of them.  Each charm is 2" by 4" and OMG!  they were fun to fan through your fingers!  Jinny really has put together a useful line of basics.

Inspirational photo

So I've had the set for a couple of months now - just thinking over what I wanted to do with them.  All spring I've had this growing fascination with stones, stone walls, and caves. The more I looked at the charms - the more I saw stone walls.  After picking out just the right inspirational picture, I started placing the stones.  I used a pellon base and then added a black fabric for the "mortar".  The stones were pinned onto the black fabric being placed by value.  I'm not fusing them since it would all start looking too flat for my taste.

I've auditioned a couple of fabric for the base foreground but none seemed just right - so I bet I'll end up painting one.  That should be interesting since I've never done that before (grin).  I'm also in the process of auditioning the fabrics for the inside of the "cave".

Ya know, this is another one of those projects where its all about value baby!!! 
Check out more design walls at Judy's Patchworks!