December 2008 Challenge: Inspired by a Beverage! (Page 2)

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The piña colada (Spanish, strained pineapple: piña, pineapple + colada, strained) is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with light rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice. It may be garnished with a pineapple wedge or a maraschino cherry - with an umbrella and a straw

Torquay, UK
Baileys Irish Cream is an Irish whiskey and cream based liqueur, made in Dublin, Ireland. Other ingredients used are not known but they include chocolate, vanilla, caramel and sugar. Whats not to like!

I have been trying out the fussy cut feature for the border.

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

The snowmen were found in the library then modified. I'm still in the Christmas mode here in Virginia. I'd love to be outside playing in the snow and then warming up with hot chocolaate... but it's 60 degrees today.

I usually decorate with snowmen when the Christmas decorations get packed away; I can see this little guy hanging in the kitchen.

Thanks for a fun challenge,!!
Haymarket, VA

40 oz Cranberry Cocktail
2 x 48 oz Apple Juice
10 Whole Cloves
2" Cinnamon Stick
1/2 C Brown Sugar

Heat to simmer - 30 min.

Serves 20 x 6 oz or 30 x 4oz

Jane Turgeon
Northeastern Ontario

My favorite beverage is tea with my best friends after our Saturday morning "exercise and therapy" session. We meet on Saturday mornings for a long walk and lots of chatting, discussing problems and sharing events that are happening in our lifes. I know they will always be there for support, encouragement and just to listen when I need them and I'll always be there for them. The block around the "our portrait" is the Friendship Chain Block.

Ontario, Canada

Tea with friends is time well spent

Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada

My favorite tea these days is Rooibos, also known "Red Tea" or "Bush Tea". The Rooibos bush grows in South Africa, so I envisioned a colourwash quilt made with various red fabrics (for the "red tea") and yellow/gold fabrics representing the African sun, with African motifs appliqued on top.
In researching the Rooibos bush, I realized that the bush is very spikey, and it wouldn't be easy to make a applique that looked like the bush, so I digitized a bush to look like the rooibos bush in my embroidery software, imported it into EQ and set it on layer 3. Oryx are native to the region that Rooibos grows in, so I created an applique motif of an oryx from a photo. The other appliques are also created from photos. I'm not sure if giraffes or the Acacia tree are native to the region, but I thought I should include motifs that are easily recognized as African.

Reno/Sparks, Nevada USA

Where the dark brown is, I picture the coffee bean fabric.

I love coffee and I love hot chocolate drinks. I elected for a lighter brown border -- it's for caramel. Worked part-time in a coffee shop in Manassas, Virginia one year. We made these luscious drinks called Cafe Carmel. I remember coffee, caramel, chocolate, whoipped cream, and a cherry. (Sounds like a hot version of the Chocolate Soda I described in my other quilt.)

Reno/Sparks, Nevada USA

See that big red cherry on the top!? It is nestled in a dollop of whipped cream. The dark chocolate syrup is not totally mixed into the carbonated water. The whipped cream is beginning to blend into the chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream.

Every Friday evening in the summers in the 1950's and 60's, when my mom was learning how to drive, we'd stop at an ice cream stand named Putz's. I'd have a chocolate soda.

Partially inspired by Barbara's "Bubbly", and also inspired by my other 'favourite' red wine - the Sparkling red wine.
This is something that seems to be more South Australian than anything - red wine made using the traditional champagne method.
Goes really well with turkey, so around here it makes a great Christmas celebration wine :-)

Adelaide, South Australia

The block in this quilt comes from the block libraries (The Grapes of Wrath). The colours have been chosen to be those of a good Barossa red wine (preferably a shiraz :-))

Adelaide, South Australia

LaCygne, KS

We are slowly getting back to our roots after moving to the country. We have five horses and enjoy going for long camping weekends to trail ride. My husband loves his cowboy coffee and it's always made with clean egg shells in the pot. For some reason that is supposed to make it taste better! Then again, maybe it's the blue graniteware coffee pot and cups.

What kind of coffee are you? These houses represent every shade of coffee you could want to choose from!

Perth Western Australia

I've always loved milk, and I also love a good latte. The 'Milky Way' block and the cow appliques and quilting emphasise the milk theme.

Perth Western Australia

Lebanon, ME

The 'screenless screen houise' is the best place for summer meals. It may be few for tea, sit down for thirty, or two with a late night glass of wine, it is a space that accomdates all.

Lebanon, ME

This quilt was inspired by some special vinary fabric (not in this version) and summer nights in the back yard.

Jacksonville, Arkansas

This quilt reminds me of my flower garden with my cat Rusty watching the bluebirds. I used blocks and motifs from EQ6.

My favorite beverage is water.

I evidentally 'inherited' my grandmother's love for quilting and coffee -- or 'Java' as she referred to it.

Lincoln, Nebraska

Pasco, Wa

Northern Virginia

If I were to make a wallhanging for the kitchen depicting my favorite beverage - this would be it. Could make it for the office or sewing room, too!

Although I drink my Raspberry Tea cold, this teapot just looked nice in the middle of all the palm tree fabric.

I didn't make the quilt as big as it should be, cuz I like the fabric motif as large as this looks.

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If I were to make a wallhanging for the kitchen depicting my favorite beverage - this would be it. Could make it for the office or sewing room, too!

Although I drink my Raspberry Tea cold, this teapot just looked nice in the middle of all the palm tree fabric.

I didn't make the quilt as big as it should be, cuz I like the fabric motif as large as this looks.

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Germany, 2008

The Ruhr Area - where we live - is famous for well and natural brewn beer and for the love of soccer. To fans it is a beloved event to watch the game and afterwards have a few well drawn beers with friends to discuss the players skills...
This project is my own design except the ball from EQ library. Drawing was fun to me and my husband likes it. Now I'm worried that I have to sew it!
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Once again, time for tea on a pretty dressed table with fresh flowers and folded napkins. Use your imagination at seeing an elegant tea cup and tea pot. In my mind I invision a beautiful fine English Bone China Tea Service. At least that was what I was trying to draw, but it didn't turn out that way, did it. I can't draw, but I can sew!

My best attempt at drawing a tea cup and tea pot. I don't know much about the applique feature and then colouring it too. Had some struggles, as you see, everything is one colour in the block. The flowers on the table and folded napkins (dresden fan) on a pretty table cloth make tea time extra fun.

Boynton Beach Fl.
24x60
done on a MAC

I don't necessarily love hot tea but I do love tea party things and butterflies.

We love strawberries here in south Louisiana and in fact the parish I live (Tangipahoa) in is famous for their strawberries. Mix them into a traditional frozen daiquiri and yum!

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