Then we had the big reveal of quilts for the Novel Challenge.
Each participant was instructed to open their book to a certain page picked at random and write down the fifth sentence on that page. The challenge was to use that sentence as inspiration for a small quilt using whatever technique(s) they wanted.
Some sentences seemed to be more challenging than others (I thought mine was the worst), but we had a lot of fun and everyone did a great job on their quilts. This is certainly a creative group! Here are all thirteen quilts with their makers and sentences:
Book: Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Sentence: ‘Isn’t that a disgustingly romantic way for a scientist to behave?’
Book: White Out by Ken Follett
Sentence: ‘The four kids ate quickly, they retired to the barn to watch a DVD movie called Scream2, leaving six adults around the table in the dining room; ___ and Ned, Olga and Hugo, Daddy at the head and Kit at the foot.’
Book: Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
Sentence: ‘She would have the results of Mary’s test.’
Sharon Griffith
Book: Gone With the
Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Sentence: ‘Then you’ll be more comfortable.’
Book: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Sentence: ‘He began to rush his other customers by shouting at them and no one objected to his harassment.’
Book: Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Sentence: ‘The first fine day I assembled my three eldest sons and put my design into execution.’
Book: Murder at the Washington Tribune by Margaret Truman
Sentence: Well, well,” Michael said smiling.”
Book: Stiff by Mary Roach
Sentence: ‘Each cadaver was outfitted with strain gauges and lead cells in its heel and ankle and clad in one of six types of footwear.’
Book: The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
Sentence: ‘A muscle worked in his jaw.’
Book: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Sentence: ‘They had grown up among movie stars, but to them Jobs was a true celebrity.’
Vista Mahan
Book: One True Thing
by Anna QuindlenSentence: ‘But of course I remember that in one way I lost the lynch pin years before, not long after I acquired the date book.’
Ginny Minninger
Book: Abundance by
Sena Jeter NaslundSentence: ‘Had I been married to Artois, I would not find myself eighteen years old and still a virgin.’
Book: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robins
Sentence: ‘You prepare to scream.’
