Challenge # 15-2013 MMDT Featured Grid: Sandstone
Challenge #15
August’s Featured Grid: Sandstone
Theme: our choice…my choice: Kidron on auction day.
Design Requirement: Double page panoramic
Paper Tiles used: Pear Crush, Deep Spring Green, Orchid, Icy Indigo, and White
Font: Cut with Cricut George
Sharpie Markers and Micron 02 for ‘stitching’ on ‘quilt pattern’.
Looking over the challenges for August I decided to approach both together. The spot I had in mind for my panoramic shot would take me through the heart of Ohio’s Amish country and I took photos with both challenges in mind. Consider this part one! The panoramic I went for would be more striking in the fall, there was just so much green, so a slight change of plans for the panoramic!
There are four Mennonite churches within 5 minutes of my home and the area considered Ohio’s Amish Country is only a short drive away. Close enough that we shop regularly down here as the bulk food stores meet many of our baking needs. Tourists flock to this area yearlong, but because we come and go it is often overlooked as being a unique area worth exploring. Let me take you through one town nearby, Kidron, in my photos.
I chose to take this drive on a Thursday to hopefully catch a lot of unique photos at the weekly Kidron Auction. The weather was the hottest most humid to date, 93* in the early morning. As I approached town I began to think of the smell of all those animals in one place in this heat…however upon arrival I didn’t find the usual overcrowded hustle and bustle of auction day, but still was able to catch some of the shots I hoped for and a few I didn’t even consider. I had my list of ideas to keep me on task and took advantage of the unexpected.
PAGE ONE
My panoramic photo shows a spot under the pines where a large group of buggies were “parked” as their owners were in shopping at the market, at the auction or kibitzing with their friends. This was one of those hoped for shots…but getting it without getting some of the Amish men in the photos was a bit of a challenge.
Next is Lehman’s. This store is renowned for its supplies that don’t rely on the necessity of electricity. It has catered to the Amish community for many years, and rose in profile nationwide during the buildup to Y2K when all sorts of dire things were predicted to happen. People wanted to survive and Lehman’s had the supplies. This new face to the frontage of the store resembles the false fronts of the western prairie stores and masks the true size of the building. I liked the corner clock, the old tin awning, vintage poster signage and the old filler station with the Chevy truck at the pump…the total sale was $2.89 for ten gallons and three quarts of gas! That I liked the best!!
I’ve included one of the farms out on the Kidron Rd.
A photo that shows small portion of one of the quilts up for auction at the Mennonite Relief Auction this weekend is at the bottom of page one, below the title.
My title block was inspired by the colors of the Alabama Star Quilt http://www.ohiomccreliefsale.org/auctiondetail.cfm?r=741 below it. I began with a large white Paper Tile to cover the 4-3/8”x 6-5/8” space in the pattern. It took a little bit of fiddling to decide on a design. I needed to have a way to get all my squares in the proper place and still occupy the pattern shape. Taking the white tile I laid it over the photo of Lehman’s and began to hand emboss to get the area between the squares to leave an impression on the white tile. This made it easier to place the paper quilt pieces in the proper place and to use a Micron 02 permanent marker to draw stitches on the open white area. The letters for the title were cut with a Cricut using the George font.
Lining up over the photo, rubbing the impression into the paper...
More definition achieved with a bone folder or scorer....
lining the pairs of squares and cutting....
deciding on a border or squares.
To get the tiles to fit together well I took two tiles Icy Indigo and Orchid and laid them on top of each other with just a dab of “dotto” glue dots to hold them in place and then on the bottom to keep them in place on the mat. Then lining up several in a row cut corner to corner. If you take the top Orchid triangle and pair it with the bottom Icy Indigo you get triangles that should fit together nicely.
PAGE TWO
On this side the buggies continue across the top. My center photo is a field where sheaves of harvested winter wheat are stacked to dry. A few of the horses tethered to a hitching rail at the auction are included in the bottom photo. The large photo to the right was one of those photo moments I’d hoped for but was surprised when I actually got it! As is often the case when traveling the roads in this area you have to wait behind a buggy or in this case a wagon for a good time to pass. I was one of many cars awaiting an opportunity to pass. Uphill and around a bend was not ideal, so as I held back I pulled out the camera and took a few shots of the grandfather and boys on their way home from market. The bottom right block includes another one of the quilts up for auction, Raspberry Truffle http://www.ohiomccreliefsale.org/auctiondetail.cfm?r=744 .
These are a few of the sights you can expect to find in Kidron, and several rural towns in Wayne and Holmes County. This is my Ohio.
Next challenge I'll show you a closer look...see you then!
Thanks so very much for stopping by, your comments and cheers are so appreciated,
Andrea
