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texture reveal

Today is the reveal day for the last Fiberactions challenge word. The word was texture which was an easy one for me to work with…

“continuity”

18″x 24″

Materials used:silk,cotton,fluid acrylics,rayon floss,Mistyfuse,textile foil

detail view:

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departure

The latest word for the Fiberactions challenge was “departure”. It took me a while to figure out what direction to go in for this one and finally settled on creating a piece of work that was a departure from realism…

“purple vase”

18X24″ hand dyed cotton,Mistyfuse,machine stitching

 

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Horton's quiltHorton’s quilt

it’s reveal day for the Fiberactions group. The word for this challenge was environment and good grief did I have trouble with this one. I really liked the word and had several (6!) different ideas but when I tried to put them into form they all failed miserably. I was going to just give up [...]

transformationtransformation

The challenge word for the Fiberactions group was transformation and here’s mine:

hand dyed,Stamped,screen printed,raw edge Mistyfuse applique,machine pieced &quilted 16″x20″

See the rest of the quilts on the Fiberactions blog here.

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fragmentsfragments

It’s reveal day on the Fiberactions blog. The theme was stretch which for me meant working on a surface that I haven’t worked on before:

"fragments"16"x20"hand painted silk on stretched canvas

These are pieces left over from my silk vessel project mounted to a stretched canvas that I painted. See all the [...]

memoriesmemories

It’s reveal time for the latest Fiberactions challenge. This challenges theme was “memory”and the first thing that came to mind when I saw the challenge word “memory”was to choose a memory of some event in my life and depict that in fabric. But I just couldn’t seem to rally around that idea because [...]

memorymemory

Well it’s been a crazy week around here with all the construction going on so my studio time has been severely limited but I did find time to finish my quilt for the latest fiberactions challenge. This time the theme is memory. Here’s a sneak peek:

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Convergence

This past weekend was the day for the reveal for the Convergence themed quilts in the Fiberactions group:

"convergence"16"x20"

I had big plans for this challenge and originally had a bright colorful quilt in mind for it but a few weeks after the word was announced my dog Gertie got very ill and [...]

CommunicationCommunication

Today’s the big reveal day for the Fiberactions challenge group. The theme for this challenge was “communication”and here’s my quilt:

“Silent Communication”16″x20″thread sketched on hand painted silk

The silk was painted using Jacquard dye-na-flow paint. Once it was dry and heat set I used Mistyfuse to fuse it [...]

sneak peek and a question...sneak peek and a question…

I’ve been working on my communication quilt for the current Fiberactions challenge pretty much non stop the last couple of weeks and I finished it yesterday. As much as I would love to show you the entire thing,I can’t,so you’ll have to be satisfied with this sneak peek until the reveal day gets [...]