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.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Childhood

I remember living on my bicycle. I went everywhere on it and as fast as I could pedal besides. Needless to say, I had quite a few tumbles ...

Friday, January 27, 2012

Challenge 65 - Child Play/Childhood Memories

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge #65 Due: 2/3/12 Child Play/Childhood Memories Host: Kat...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Winter sunshine

I finished this piece made out of scraps. From my initial piece made while at my mothers, I needed to exchange a couple of pieces, but that ...

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Partly cloudy in the desert

It's partly cloudy in the desert. This is our second painting project in the online class taught by Annette Kennedy. We used Pebeo Set...

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Confused Weather

This winter our weather has been anything but normal. Normally we have cold, ice, snow, and more cold, but this year we are having spring-l...

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Leaves

This is a small piece, only 9"x9", and is mounted on black velvet. The quilt sits in a shadow box, but the glass does not photogra...

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Blowing Snow

This is the first challenge piece I have finished in a looonnnggg time.... I have a number of started pieces hanging around, but finally got...

Monday, January 02, 2012

Sonoma Sunny Day

This quilt is acrylic ink painted on Mulberry paper, glued to muslin, sandwiched with an old wool blanket found in my daughters studio. I wa...

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Winter Storm

The snow is batting and the sleet is metallic thread 19-3/4" x 17-3/4"

Friday, December 30, 2011

Wind Blown

12 X 16 We have had a series of storms accompanied by high winds that blew the snow onto the vertical surface of the fence. Snow is cheesecl...

How Many Wannabee Snowbirds Are There?

Certainly not the snowwoman who is tired of shoveling the snow but fears she may end up like the melting snowman. Answer: just one...The bir...

Desert Sunset

My son lives in the high desert of Utah. He took a photo on his way home from work and sent it to me to use for this dramatic sky. The roa...

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Here Comes the Rain

Finally I've finished a challenge on time. Actually I have quite a few challenges I haven't yet posted so better catch up. He...

SNOWY NIGHT - WINTER DELIGHT

For Snowy Night I choose a black piece of fabric, and used bleach to draw trees. The trees were then stitched using various threads, and ...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

CALIFORNIA WIND

This is a photo I took through my RV window as we drove by. It was just starting to sprinkle and it looked sort of surreal. I am fascinate...

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Winter from the Window

16" x 20" 6/4/12 -- This piece just won Third Prize in the Framingham Artists Guild art show! --------------- While I am th...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Challenge 64 - Weather

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge #64 Due: 12/31/11 Whether the Weather is Wetter or Whiter Host: Tobi Ho...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Double PinWheels

The piece is 14-1/2" X 14-1/2". All I got done after all this time was the quilt top. Too many things going on all at once, but s...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Calla Lily

I finally finished this challenge. I am taking a class taught by Annette Kennedy on Craftsy and this is her pattern, but I feel that it f...

Monday, December 05, 2011

Rose

I enjoyed this challenge. This little piece is 10 1/2" wide by 7 3/4" long. It was done from a photo I took a couple years ago....

Sunday, December 04, 2011

The Wizard

As requested here is a close up -I used some metallic thread the light makes it blur. Thank you for commenting My inspiration was ...

Saturday, December 03, 2011

Santa Fe Courtyard

As usual, I thought too long about what to do. After a week of procrastination, I started this on Thursday. It needs some finishing work an...

Rembrandt's Bird by Cynthia Ann Morgan

Rembrandt's Bird by Cynthia Ann Morgan Here's my piece for the high contrast with color challenge. I used Rembrandt's Samson...

Friday, December 02, 2011

Shadowed Grapes

Here is my finished challenge. I wanted to use only fabric etc that I had on hand, so chose to use some of my LWI hand-dyed fabric, in this...

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Under the Sea

I haven't finished this piece, it still needs stitched and quilted. I really admire the work of Jo Diggs so tried my first 'unde...

dahlia

I took a picture of a flower in my garden because it had one white petal amongst all the red. The light gave interesting color variations t...

Leaf in the Fountain

Here is my small project in response to this challenge to create something in the chiaroscuro style. I used a photo of the fountain at the C...

When Life Gives You Lemons...

The tree trunk represents my hand that wants to turn it around instead. The symbolic landscape was designed in Make the Cut Software an...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Water Lily

I wanted to do a flower for this challenge and I started with this photo (below) that I took last summer. I edited the photo (in Photoshop ...

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Onion Peel

The Art Piece As I started this design, I had in mind that it eventually would become a purse. I was given a gorgeous piece of burgundy vel...

Mesmerized

This is my first attempt at using value to do portraits. I am happy with everything except the choice of fabrics. I think there is too big...

Friday, November 25, 2011

Flower

Not much to say about this. Probably the easiest one I have ever done. I used the applibond method for the flower and the leaves are from a...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Challenge 63 - High Value Contrast

FFFC Challenge # 63 November 2011 Theme : Contrast Hostess : Susan Brittingham Experiments in Contrast and Color: Use strong value con...

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Untitled

Although, I am posting last this was done the week of the challenge deadline. I just never got around to the posting part of it. This was a ...

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Tails of a Phoenix

I had just made a trip to Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur and was inspired by the Phoenix image. This piece used two tails of my ima...

Monday, November 07, 2011

Sea Notan Art

I Have posted my Quilt to the blog and FFFCC 62 Thank you for such a great challenge. This was a fun project. I "think" this repre...

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Notan Snowflake

I started with a circle and cut the pattern to look like a snowflake. One side of the white fabric had some sparkles on it. I realized that ...

Three Studies

Here are three that I like. I haven't had time to convert to fabric yet...too many irons in the fire right now...LOL This is fun and a ...

Notan.....

You have all done a great job! Notan is such fun and with so few rules, its easy to just keep it going! I did a bunch over the summer... h...

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