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.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Challenge 69

Perspective on the Lone Triangle Blues

SEA OF HOLES

I finally finished my "Beatles" Quilt , a month late :-(...Oh well, better late than never, yes? The Beatles 'song' I...

Charm

This was my first time playing with Zentangles and a lot of fun. I started with a quote and then played with interpreting the letters in ...

Monogram

Here is my entry. It's an 8.5" square of computer paper. I used a BIC fine point Mark-It and a Pilot V Ball fine point pen to do ...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Ann In Zen

Tangling is addictive! I spent several hours yesterday and quite a few more today working on this tangle. It was a lot of fun finding patter...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Live Life by Inspiring Others to Fly

This was an incredible challenge -I had never heard of ZenTangles, I love to doodle, this was fun/ the doodling part of " Live Life...

Challenge 68

Wedding Memory Quilt

Wedding Memory Quilt I wanted to make a small memory quilt in appreciation of the wedding invitation. I figured I would just stitch...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Om

As a practicing yogini, Om is a big part of my life: the universal and complete sound we use in chanting practice. I've played with...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Zentangle

I began my zentangle design by drawing one in the original size format of 3 1/2" square. What started out loopy ended as a bird. I...

First Wedding Anniversary

The basic design was created with my favorite font and the infinity symbol in Make the Cut software. Then, I printed it wireframe on ...

BREATHE FREE

Breathe Free 17 1/2"x17" I have been thinking about Independence Day coming up and was inspired to portray Lady Liberty. The ...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Zentangle - Pen & Ink

Zentangles are right up my alley. I have been doing Zentangles for the last 2-years and have thoroughly enjoyed creating designs and patt...

Friday, June 22, 2012

Challenge 70 - Zentangles & Text

Challenge 70 : Text Inspired By Zentangles June 22, 2012 Due: June 30, 2012 Host: Meena Schaldenbrand What are Zent...

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Octopus's Garden

18" x 23" I first thought of doing Maxwell's Silver Hammer -- but I don't like the images from that song! Octopus...

Saturday, June 02, 2012

It Was A Musical Year

"When I'm 64" is a great little song, full of visual imagery. I chose these lines from the first stanza:..."Will you s...

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Imagine

My inspiration for the challenge was John and His historical song Imagine 1971

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

You Make Me Dizzy Miss Lizzy

I chose to do "You Make Me Dizzy Miss Lizzy". The backgkround is hand dyed. The dancers are printed, the music notes are beads. ...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I Wanna Hold Your Hand:

Still Crazy and Nuts About Him After All These Years! The Beatles' song that inspired this metal quilt is "I Wanna Hold Your H...

Monday, May 28, 2012

Under the Old Oak Tree

The Gestalt principles used in this quilt are Proximity and Similarity. The leaves of the tree were fussy cut and individually glued on...

Yellow Submarine

I loved this Challenge. It was like a walk down memory lane revisiting my teen years. Yellow Submarine was composed by Paul McCartney i...

Long Tall Sally

When I was going through the song titles, one made me stop! "Long Tall Sally"---what more did I need? This is really not coll...

Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Devil in Her Heart

I chose The Devil in Her Heart as my inspiration. This was made on a 12x12" piece of thin plywood. I used fabric, magazine photos, colo...

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

I chose the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" to illustrate. Growing up then everyone knew the title referred to the drug LSD....

Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Long and Winding Road 16” X 17” The lyric I chose is: The long and winding road that leads to your door… While searching for fabric,...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Challenge 69 - Pop Art

Challenge 69 “ Pop” Art May 25, 2012 Due: June 2 nd Host: Julia Arden Use the title or lyrics of a Beatle...

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Miss Lena Horn

Hi all, this maybe cheating a little but recently my time has been limited and I really loved this challenge. My husband's Mother, at...

Friday, May 11, 2012

Gestalt Leaves

18" x 24" The gestalt principles here are similarity/differences, and proximity, to create a trio of plants. I used reverse a...

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Spiral Galaxy M101

Hi Everyone, I took the suggestion from several of you to capture my galaxy pieces (from the previous challenge, Turner effect) by over...

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Amigos

I was on vacation when this new challenge was posted. I did not quite understand "Gestalt". This is my idea of gestalt. I did ...

"Mother Nature's Gift"

After a long absence from quilting or sewing of any kind (we're talking a couple of years I think!) I decided it was time to get back...

Monday, May 07, 2012

Zebra (En)Closure

When I saw Cherie's theme and read through the various Gestalt principles, the one that spoke to me was Closure. This is an interpretati...

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Waterworld

I wish I could interpret these challenges a little less than literally, but here it is. I wanted to experiment with Lutradur and colou...

Friday, May 04, 2012

The Biker

The Biker is created using the principles of Closure and Proximity. The biker’s head and the bike's wheels are separate from the body m...

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Where Ever You Go

I chose to do an abstract for this challenge, I used recycled fabric including upholstery scraps. Quilted with free motion embroidery. ...

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

'We All Shine On'

I have finally finished up my answer to this challenge. I quilted the circles and circle slices, added the sun in the right hand corner, qu...

Stalking Cat

I was interested in pursuing the idea of rudimentary shapes suggesting a whole. I did it in reverse, Starting with a high contrast photo o...

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