Fast Friday Fabric Challenge

A gallery of the quilts created for the Fast Friday Fabric Challenges. The quilt artists display their work here to give and receive constructive critiques. Only blog members may comment.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Geo I

Kathy... this challenge got me! It was not easy at all... I went out and took a picture of our mountains. Geo I Then I defined the lines...

The Grande Grand

Here's my small piece, about 14 by 10 inches. When I first saw the Grand Canyon I walked into a visitor's center and for the first t...

Monday, June 28, 2010

Strata

This is my piece called Strata. It is pieced with a curved piecing method, the seams are emphasized with metallic thread in a triple stitch...

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Geologic Wonder

I used a friend's picture as inspiration (with his permission). I tried to put a link to it but I guess Flickr had other ideas. Anyway -...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Challenge 46

FFFC Challenge # 46 June 2010 Host Kathy Walker Geology with Unexpected Colors: ou are free to use whatever techniques and materials you f...

Magic Mushrooms

Sorry to be so late. Busy as all of you are. Frankly, I couldn't find the inspiration with this theme, however, once started, I got...

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Tree Fungi

Here is my piece based on the Jack-o-lantern tree fungi . I used some scrips and scraps from other projects to pull this together. Although ...

Friday, June 11, 2010

Family Tree

I have made a family tree of flower children. Do you know how hard it is to acquire pictures of your children's spouses as small childr...

Sunday, June 06, 2010

'Shroom Invasion

Thi is small - only 4.5"x6.5", but I have come to really enjoy working in the small sizes. My split complementary color pallete is...

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Orange Fan Fungi

5 X 14 This was fun challenge as I have always had a fascination with mushrooms and other fungi. Betty provided us with some great links fo...

Friday, June 04, 2010

Pizza Hot Little Pepper/Button Mushrooms

I had two ideas for this challenge... my first thought was pizza and the other idea is still lingering... so...will have to make it too...

Fungus Among Us

I browsed through Google images and came across a photo of shelf fungus-then found some real ones on a walk through the woods (on a level, s...

Elegy for a Tree

23 1/2" x 12" The center focus out our back picture window had long been a tall birch tree. As spring blossomed this year, it was...

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Augie's mushrooms and There is a Fungus Among Us

My grandson Augies had been visiting when this challenge came up. He wanted to help with this challenge. Augie has a strong sense of color a...

The Changing of the Seasons

This one was very hard for me. It took me five days to come up with an idea. I don't know how to do abstract on purpose and as as for th...

Chanterelles

I used a photograph of Chanterelles as a guide and free hand cut and stitched. It is 3 layers.. altho' the actual backing is batting, th...

Waiting for Pizza

I kept thinking of the mushrooms in my frig and decided to use them for this challenge. I took a photo, transferred to fabric, then highlig...

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Challenge 45 - Fun Fungi

Fun Fungi finished size 17 x 25. OK after looking at fungi pictures - which grossly revealed lots of foot fungus - yuck - I like the round s...

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

High on Fungi

I am usually one who does very realistic art quilts so this time I stepped out of my comfort zone and went completely abstract with my fungi...

Red Hat Fungi Funguys

This was a fun challange! I have represented a gathering of many different mushroom at a Red Hat gathering. I used green hand dye for the...

Woodland Sleep-Over

For the last couple months, it seems I have gone from one looming deadline to the next. This month is no different but I decided I was going...

Challenge 45 "If Andy had been a mycologist" by Silvia Dell'Aere

(hemmm it's correct to say "had been"?) Yes, the Andy of the title is Warhol. I'd like to do a piece in Andy's styl...

Monday, May 31, 2010

Mushrooms by Cynthia Ann Morgan

Here's my little piece featuring mushrooms and autumn leaves. Comments and greetings welcome! Cynthia

Sunday, May 30, 2010

NEWFOUNDLAND ROSE

I took a picture of this red mushroom a few years ago while hiking in the Newfoundland Woods. I have always wanted to feature it in my art, ...

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Challenge 45: Fabulous Fungus

Challenge 45 – May 2010 Host: Betty Warner Intro: Fungus is fascinating whether it is in the form of mushrooms at the dining table, mushroom...

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Challenge 44 - Dandelion Dance

I have to admit this was so far outside my comfort zone I almost didn't do it - that and the fact we left for a two week vacation right ...

Monday, May 10, 2010

Flower Child

Flower Child This is my favorite little girl, Morgandy. I thought I posted this yesterday so I hope this is not a repeat. The upper fabric...

Happy Dance

18 ¼ " x 25 ¾" I've renamed this from Flower Child Dance! My only problem with including people is drawing them, so I cut out ...

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Also finished something for the Under the Sea Challenge 43. I've been taking a painting on fabric class at Quilt University which has be...

Just finished Challenge 42 - I'm just a bit behind! I was also doing this for a challenge in an art group I'm in here in Maine. We h...

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Flower Child - 10" x 10 3/4"

A bit late getting this one done and posted, but here we are. This piece, "Flower Child", was fun to do once I decided what to do....

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Flower Child Mary Jane

This challenge was outside my comfort zone so......I made it fit!!! I live in rural northern California. Our biggest CASH crop is possibly i...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge 43

The theme of the challenge was underwater. I used an extant wallhanging which incorporates a number of thread embellishment techniques inclu...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

My Favorite Flower Child

Is my only granddaughter, of course! This is a small quilt and will remain unfinished for now since I had foot surgery two weeks ago requir...

April May and June

#44 Flower Children "April, May, and June" The children are dancing about in silk flower dresses on a quilted background....

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Presenting Ms. Daisy Gerber

Here is my flower child. Her body is the stem. Her sleeves are the leaves. Her hair is french knots -- many, many french knots. I asked my h...

Flower Children

I love this challenge idea...it's right up my alley....I have even done a piece with flower ladies in it before..So I am sharing a littl...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Rudbeckia - Brown Eyed Susan

I finished off challenge 43 and saw the new challenge. I had an idea straight away, so set to! I thought I would base the child on one of ...

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