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.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Rainbow Owl

I saw a picture of a photoshopped rainbow owl and immediatly wanted to make it. This seemed like the perfect time to try it. The backg...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

WORTHINGTON GLACIER

Here is my piece for this challenge, and a quote from my Alaska Journal: July 29 2000 "As we drove down the road we passed a huge ...

Panther Chameleon

I started this Friday morning, as soon as the challenge was announced. Most of the time since then has been spent sewing on beads. The...

Pod, Again

This is called "Pod, Again" because I find myself drawn to creating pods over and over. Pea pods lend themselves easily to textu...

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Challenge 77: Touchy-Feely

Theme: Touchy-Feely Host: Lisa Quintana Due: Feb. 2, 2013 I like to paint. Many of my quilts have painted elements. Not too lo...

Trout Rising

I know...this is a really bad thing to do...I think. Back a million years ago, in October 2010, the challenge was to use metallic stuff,...

Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Power of One

I have a hard time with these challenges...not thinking too much. I did a lot of research into Auspicious numbers....and I knew my nume...

Sunday, January 06, 2013

"Zero My!"

None of the numerology numbers that came up for me...'felt' right. So, I got to thinking about how I like circles (with beginnin...

Saturday, January 05, 2013

Three

Three seems to be an ongoing number recurring in my life. Three husbands, three children, three homes and 13 grandchildren as well as th...

Friday, January 04, 2013

Three and Seven

14" x 19" I could not settle on a single auspicious number, so I chose the month and day of my birthday, and made those the ce...

C'est moi

"C'est moi" is 10"w X 14"h. The background is regular cotton quilted with pearl-colored thread, and all the appl...

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Silhouettes of Indian Dancers

Auspicious numbers in the Indian culture end with one..11, 21, 51, 101, 501 etc. The silhouettes emphasize the form and movement o...

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

13!

After reading the numerology sites, I discovered my soul number is 1 and my personality number is 3. This is auspicious because I have l...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

7 Cranes

I have always heard that 7 is a lucky number. I choose cranes to represent this number because in legend the crane symbolizes joy and hap...

Monday, December 31, 2012

Cattails

Cattails, 18" x 24" Not being a believer in numerology or lucky numbers, I was a bit perplexed as to how to approach ths...

Auspicious 4x4

This piece is 4”x4”, which was a challenge in itself doing something so small, but 4x4=16, and that just happens to be my birthday! Besi...

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Sweet Sleep

Sorry this is so late, but I think it also includes some of the requirements for Challenge 76, as well, since my Outer number is ...

Friday, December 28, 2012

One Yellow Square

One Yellow Square 10" x 10" ready for framing One Yellow Square view to show depth and texture I had a dream la...

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Challenge 76: Auspicious Numbers

Host: Susan Slesinger Due Date: Jan. 5, 2013 This month’s challenge will focus on auspicious numbers. We survived December 21 2012...

Thursday, December 06, 2012

Golden Spiral

26" x 17" 12/9/12 -- I just took a new photo of Golden Spiral with better lighting, which lets the spiral show up much bet...

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Moonlight and Coconut Palms

I know this is quite late, but better late than never, right? I tried a lot of techniques in this project, and although the physical prope...

Friday, November 30, 2012

Falling leaf

When I am falling asleep and fall it is a gentle slow descent. It feels like a leaf falling from a tree. This tree is all thread painted...

Golden Swirl Cushion

Golden Swirl I got the idea for the design while cleaning. My hanging chair had the cushion I made ~ 40 years ago. Then it blend...

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Nightly Hot Flash Rituals: Ignition to Afterglow!

The quilt was designed in Make the Cut Software. It was cut with my electronic cutter using both the positive and negative shapes f...

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Golden Spiral

Golden Spiral or Fibonacci This piece represents flying and falling in a storm such as Hurricane Sandy. I was going for abstract, but I ...

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Untitled Challenge 75 Response

Friday, November 23, 2012

Challenge 75: Falling in a Golden Swirl

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge #75, November 2012 Challenge Hostess: Silvia Dell'Aere Title: Falling in a golden swirl Due: Dec.1...

Friday, November 09, 2012

Challenge #74 Done!

"On the Hunt" Finished this piece 12/27/12, but am posting based on an earlier date that will fall under Challenge 74 works. ...

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Cityscape on the River

12" x 21" This is really better as a touchy-feely kind of piece as the main fabric that I used is an Oriental flocked fabric ...

Friday, November 02, 2012

Button Quilt

Button Pony - My button horse was fun to make, like a mosaic with buttons. He does not show up well in the photos. The baby is highlighte...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Button-snatchers

I caught these Spotted Owl button-snatchers with my night-vision goggles. They are lining their nests with our buttons. Don't they ...

Button Plant

I know who the button thief is in my house -- it's my female cairn terrier. She chews the buttons off the laundry. She's crafty an...

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Over 50,000,000 Missing Americans and Counting…

The Statue of Liberty represents Freedom and our right to choose. We protect eagle eggs and destroy humans. The buttons ...

Castle in the Mist

I worked from a piece I had trialled in an abstracting exercise. Although it looks a little bit like a castle, it was in fact some chemical ...

Monday, October 29, 2012

Buttonmania Strikes Again..

My hand is up, the buttons are all at my house Small quilt, approx 15 inches tall, with hand-embroidered/quilted stitch holding the l...

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Porpita Porpita -- Blue Button Jellyfish

photo of Blue Button Jellyfish from Google Images This started out to be something very different. However, when I finished the b...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Challenge #74: Mission Possible

Host: Linda MacDonald Due Date: Nov. 3, 2012 (although late postings are permitted and welcome) MISSION POSSIBLE This month we...

Monday, October 08, 2012

Leaping Looper Fish

A planet covered with water must have lots of fish. This is a Leaping Looper Fish. Its side and top fins are loops of silk tubing. The ...

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Cygnus Loopy Bird

Hi everyone! This is my first posting for the Fast Friday Fabric Challenges! I loved the theme and was inspired by Marilyn Foulke's Loui...

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Melvin, the Spotted, Ridgebacked, Fuzzy Headed Pigasus!

As our space ship begins it's descent to planet Loopiland, I glanced out the window to see this wondrous creature waiting to welcome us!...

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