Art Squared Group-Mystical

 As a child, I was always intrigued by the darker green rings in the grass with mushrooms here and there. They usually appeared after a lightning storm. My Mom said they were fairy rings. The first challenge in my new group called Art Squared is "Mystical". The theme immediately brought back memories of those fairy rings.

This little fairy is early to the meeting. The others are on their way as you can see from the shimmery swirls.

I used batiks as well as thread work and paint to try to make the mushrooms look 3 dimensional.

Striated Muscle Cells

I made this for the Fiberaction 10th and final challenge.  We were to look in our closets and make a quilt using those colors. I  have lots of black plus every color of the rainbow which made this a fun quilt to make...despite the fact the main board on my Pfaff blew up, my feather weight would not quilt to the left, and Maddy broke my camera so I was a little late posting on the blog.  Hmmm...maybe it is time for a new machine?  This quilt represents striated muscle cells. I hope to make a series of microscopic quilts. 

 I started this quilt in WI with my "forever friend" Kim.  It sat as an UFO in my closet for a couple years.  I finished it for our quilt show in 2012.

It was fun to make and I love the colors. I have enough squares left over to make another quilt!

Pinto Ponies in the Aspens

21"x21"

The theme for this Fiberaction Challenge was "neutrals".  Ugg, I thought, I'm not a neutral person--I like COLOR! When I was a child, I remember seeing a painting by Bev Doolittle with lots of aspen trees and pinto ponies camouflaged in the background.  That painting popped into my head when I started this challenge.  I started with five fabrics for the background, then began planting trees in the distance and made my way to the foreground.

 The branches are made with threadwork. I happened to have several fabrics that made great trunks.

I googled pictures of pinto ponies, traced them onto fabric then colored them in with markers.

Since we are moving into our log home in Montana soon, I thought I would make this challenge more rustic/Western.

H1N1

I made a similar wallhanging like this during the H1N1 flu outbreak.  These are all viruses and the yellow spikey ones are H1N1  One of my patient's admires it in my office each month when she comes in for her B-12 shot. Her birthday was in August so I made this for her.

Fiberaction challenge 5

FANTANGO

20"x20"

This is the 5th fiberaction challenge piece.  We were to use a triad, which means to use 3 colors evenly spaced on the color wheel.  I chose red, blue, and spring green.

I had no preconceived thoughts in my head when I started this. It was fun to make it up as I went along.  The process reminded me of a round robin.  I may add embellishing like crystals or beads or not....I'll just have to live with it awhile.....although where.......the colors really don't go in my house!?!

Fiberaction Challenge 4

13"x20"

It was my turn to post the challenge for our Fiberaction group.  Not sure if people will like it, but it is supposed to be a challenge right?

We were to use our first and last name to pick 2 colors and then add the color black. 

For Susan I chose saffron.  For Freund I chose french blue.

I had no idea what to do, but I knew I wanted to use the new Big Shot Cutter I got for Mother's Day. It is so cool-love it!

I just started cutting, sewing, fusing, layering, looking at google images for butterflies.......and this is what I ended up with.

There are lots of crystals added, but they don't show up too well in the photo.

My S.F. quilt amongst the coreopsis.

Hmmmm...."S" for sunflower....saffron....Susan????