Woven Earth

Still working small in order to finish; this one is about the size of a potholder (grin). I printed two pieces of non-woven polyester interfacing with transfer dyes - one black and one chartreuse. Then I cut them and wove them into the earth shape. The blanket stitch came next - without it the earth looked more like a green chicken ready to roast. I did some machine stitching in black trying to keep them parallel but I must have felt the beginnings of the movement of the plates in my sewing room ...

Anyway, I am pretty proud of my edge stitching. I cut the backing a smidge larger than the front and as I stitched the extra green rolled around and covered the batting. Just what I planned.

Looking forward to any comments you care to leave. Thanks for the challenge.

Challenge #54, Pam Clark

This piece was made to meet the criteria of 2 challenges:

1. FFFC's curves

2. Our quilt guild's show challenge entitled "Artistic Journey Through Time", requiring the use of the challenge fabric (the clock fabric), and the use of silver somewhere in the piece to recognize our guild's 25th anniversary. The piece has to measure less than 25" square. This piece is 20" x 22". I first pieced black and white strips and then silver strips. I made freezer paper templates for the curves, cut out my shapes and stitched them together. I wanted my black curves to signify a road. If anyone has any ideas how I might improve this piece to show more of a journey, I would be glad to accept your suggestions.

Challenge 54 Observations on a Goldfinch

As I began to think about this challenge, I found myself watching some goldfinches at the birdfeeder.  They are just beginning to show a hint of yellow as they begin to lose their winter gray.  There are a lot of them around in the summertime and they explode from the farm field edges as I walk up our road.  So my version of this challenge is an attempt to capture the colors and energy of the goldfinches in a curved format.

It's about 25" square.  I tried a machine reverse applique for this rather than fusing, and I will probably tweak the quilting some more.  Although I usually face my quilts, this one seemed to look better with the black binding.  Originally, I had designed the "bird" to be "flying" toward the upper right corner, but decided I liked the above orientation better.

I'd appreciate critiques, even though this is late . .  . again.

Liquified Scotland

I posted Liquefied Scotland as my challenge work for number 54. I used Photoshop to make the circles, using the liquefy filter. I tried to quilt on the lines -- not so good at machine quilting. Need practice! Rosemary in St. Louis

Celtic Knot

This is late coming. My first attempt did not work out and so wasted three days. After starting over again, I came up with the Celtic Knot Quilt. Curving a straight line and interweaving the lines in and out and then finally connecting. It was bit of a challenge, but it was lots of fun. It felt like putting a jigsaw puzzle togther. The quilt is 22" X 22". Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Tangled

This Fast Friday Fabric Challenge was in some ways similar to last months challenge. I didn't want to do the same type of tangle, so this time I used fabric. My intent was to fuse it down and then do some free motion. Unfortunately, I used 'HeatnBond lite'. After bonding it, some of the pieces released, ie floated un-attached. Therefore, I edge stitched all the pieces down. Tough job because I did not want to cross over the wrong edge. This meant LOTS of stops and starts and therefore LOTS of work hiding those stops and starts.

Tangled

Tropical Fracture

I silk screened this piece some time ago with the intent of seeing how several printings on top of each other would look. The dye was very transparent so the underlying colors did not change too much. I need another few challenge months to finish the beading on this piece! Bonnie Ouellette, Seneca, SC

My inspiration for this piece came from some words from the book, "Under the Tuscan Sun" which were "bright, colorful and swirly". I can't remember what they pertained to but the image stuck in my mind. I drew a quick sketch and tried several more versions but the first one still seemed the best. With more time, I might have explored a better design. I used my own and some purchased hand dyed fabrics plus a very dark blue (which looks black in the photo) for fabrics. The streamers were quilted using my Acufeed foot on my new Horizon. I found it easy to wiggle the fabric to make the curvy lines even with the feeddog up. The background was free motion quilted in circles with metallic thread-which of course doesn't show up at all on the photo except for a light spot here or there. I have not finished the edges yet-will probably face it. I'm not 100% pleased with the piece but it was fun to do and to use bright colors which I don't usually use.

I posted a horizontal and a vertical version. Any comments on which you like better? The piece is 17" x 21".

Nancy Schlegel

Curvilinear Pinwheels

I designed  Curvilinear Pinwheels  with Make the Cut software. It was then cut with the Cricut and quilted to emphasize the 3 dimensional design. It is b y 11x 19"

Meena

Challenge 54 - Three Daisies

I've posted my piece Three Daisies; not only does it have three daisies but I had made three attempts for this challenge.

Basically I stuck at cool colors turquoise, purple and lime green. Curvy sky and curvy grass. Actually size about 21 x 22 inches.

Lisa
In Sunny cold Seattle

Honeycomb

The piece measures 22" x 40". I used a cream fabric for the base. I fused wonder-under to three pieces of fabric (green, orange and mixed) which were also 22x40. I then traced large circles on each fabric and cut the circles out. I layerd the three fabrics down and then sliced some of the areas between the circles and tucked them under the overlapping fabrics. (Not sure this makes sense!) Then I fused the whole thing together and quilted it with spirals.

Challenge 54 "Leaning Toward Spring"

This little piece is 12” x 9 ½”. I’m not sure that it meets the challenge—but MY challenge was to do something and get it done on time! It has been a long time since I’ve done a challenge. I quilted the background in curves and then did the applique work. I sit here surrounded by snow very much feeling the draw of Spring!!

Uphill Both Ways

On a recent vacation to a mountainous region, we had the privilege of walking the children to school each morning. We were stunned, when after walking uphill to the school we found that the return trip was also uphill and seemed even steeper than the walk to school.

When I saw the challenge to use curvilinear forms, my initial journal sketch of the walk to school became the inspiration for this quilt "Uphill Both Ways." It is approximately 10" x 10" and is fused and minimally quilted to enhance the curved roadways between the house and the school.

Thank you for this challenge, I really enjoyed working on it. Ticia Wicks

Profile

Curvilinear Perspective threw me for a loop; that is until I took a deep breath and really thought about it. In my mind I kept seeing this girl's face in profile, with a sixties-style hair-do. After a quick sketch, I pawed through my stash to find fabrics to create just the right mood. The hair is overlaid on black to give it depth. Yes, I know the wavy-cut binding edges are crooked, but I had to hurry to finish. While I was doing the binding, we sold our house!!

"Path Home" Fast Friday Fabric Challenge 54

Path Home

15" by 15"

I started with a sketch of the curved house and path. I added the trees and lots and lots of free motion embroidery. Cotton fabrics, embroidery thread, collected threads and oil based paint sticks to highlight the sun. I just worked this as I went along.

Janice, thank you for the Curvilinear Perspective:) This was a challenge for me, not sure if I got the whole perspective and depth, I think it sort of fits. I had fun learning this technique. Great idea!

Susan Ward aka Susanpi2

Imagination is the power of forming mental images of what is not present:) What a wonderful thing.
Quilting In Kentucky

http://artquiltssusanpi.blogspot.com/

Love

This is shown in a vortex sort of way showing loving hands encircling a couple. All fused and stitched to show features.

Silver Moon

I hope this fits the category. I used the bottom of a can for the moon.

Challenge 54 Leafy Tropics

For this challenge I cropped a section of a photo I took at a botanical garden. The final piece is only 8 by 14 inches, I have it pinned here to a canvas which is the way I'll probably display it, altho I may cover the canvas with fabric or paint it. I layered the fabrics to create the leaves and shadows, satin stitched, quilted, and highlighted with colored pencils. Thanks, Janice for a great challenge, especially since I've been lost in the desert of no motivation and this got me working again at least for this piece! All comments appreciated.

Fireworks Zentangle

This Zentangle looks like someone pointing to a fabulous firework display. If you look closely you can see that I beaded the firework with shiny clear beads in keeping with the black and white theme of Zentangles.

This one was fun!

Jeri in Ballwin MO

Beagle Zentangle

I have been experimenting with fabric Zentangles. I am still experimenting with technique and details.

When this one was finished at 9" x 12", it reminded me of my beagle.

I've been told that if I rotate it 180 degrees it looks like Sunbonnet Sue playing tennis.

Jeri in Ballwin MO