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, March 29, 2014

Perpetual Motion

I had originally thought I would piece this project, but it turned out to be way more complicated than I could handle...so I fused it. I u...

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Challenge 91: Art in the Gray Scale

Challenge Hostess: Karen Markley Theme: Non-representational Due: April 5, 2014 Technique: Piecing - Take the challenge an...

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Trillium Grandiflorum

It is almost Spring in Michigan and that can mean only one thing – it's trillium time! Trillium grandiflorum, also known as ...

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Spring is in the Air

We are experiencing the early signs of Spring with the buds on the trees thickening a little more each day. Today is overcast with ligh...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Snow and Crocuses

13 ½" x 17" A picture of early spring, I think I have it -- Impressionist style, probably not! However, I always love the sig...

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Reawakening

This was a really fun piece to do. I simply freehand cut all the fabrics, pinned them onto the background layered onto batting and started...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Challenge #90, February 28, 2014

Hostess : Cheryl Casker Title : Hurry, Spring! Theme : Interpret the gift of life (Spring) that rises from the death (Winter) that came...

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Blue Rose

Blue Rose Center When the 'Coming Up Roses' exhibit was announced, I choose to create this blue rose. I decided I needed to...

Monday, February 10, 2014

Blue Initials

This little quilt was from a guild challenge to use our initials. I like blue. It's nice to make a quilt just for fun.

Sunday, February 09, 2014

Cityscape: A Study in Blue

51" x 61" Commercial cotton, silk and polyester fabrics and threads This piece has been on my drawing board since last f...

Sunday, February 02, 2014

Comedy/Tragedy

Sorry for the bad picture but I have a new program and can't seem to make it work for cropping. I saw a picture of this small comedy/...

Sea and Sky

16½" x 13¼" A while ago I had gathered some black and white fabrics, and I always have plenty of blues, so I got a good start ...

Saturday, February 01, 2014

Ori-Nui Shibori

When this challenge was announced, I immediately thought of all of the wonderful Shibori fabric I have created over the past couple of ...

Blue Moose

I am working in a class taught by Pamela Allen. One of our assignments was to do a monochromatic piece. I chose blue, my favorite color...

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Blue Form

This could have been any color, but since the challenge was blue.... Yes, it's sculptural, but note that it is composed of five sect...

Field of Square Posies

Blue is not a color I use often, so when the challenge was announced, I was on the fence. But after all, it is a challenge, so I pulled what...

Monday, January 27, 2014

Wild Blue Yonder

Some friends and I dyed white fabric in an Indigo dye vat a couple of years ago, and I never did anything with the fabric. The Blue theme...

Friday, January 24, 2014

Bluebird of Happiness

My sewing room is too cold to work in right now, but I found this challenge irresistible. So I decided to make "something blue"...

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Challenge #89, January 24, 2014: Blue . . .

Hostess: Ann E. Ruthsdottir Title: Blue . . . Due date: February 1, 2014 Theme: Thinking blue When I think about blue, countle...

Friday, January 03, 2014

Sedimentary Strata

Painted Tyvek Rocks

Bend with the Wind

Painted Tyvek trees

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Winter Ditch

Here is the full view, followed by two close-ups This is my impression of a dried grasses in a snow filled winter ditch. I star...

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Challenge 88: Water and Wind

Challenge Hostess: Pat Findlay Title: Water and wind Theme: Create an image that shows the way the flow of water and/or wind can change...

Monday, December 23, 2013

Butterfly Mobile

When I saw the mention of butterfly mobiles I got excited and inspired. The first butterfly took 4 days. I used florist wire for the s...

Friday, December 13, 2013

Butterfly Dreams

25" x 21" "Once upon a time, Chuang Chou dreamed that he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting about happily enjoying him...

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Butterfly - OOOOoooops

My butterfly became a dragonfly. And I confess, I don't have a myth or legend about it. I really like the fabric I found for the win...

Saturday, December 07, 2013

Hauntingly Familiar

13"x18" Hand-dyed and commercial cottons, crystals, fusible Raw edge fused applique technique I finally...

Friday, November 29, 2013

Butterfly trio

I tried a couple of things before finally settling on this little trio. I was inspired by the article on the presence of butterflies in ...

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