Fancy Threads art quilt group challenge

Just got home from our monthly get together of Fancy Threads.

Our group of quilters who our interested in stretching our creativity

gave ourselves of bit of a challenge last month.

We each brought a twelve-inch-square of fabric and one embellishment.

A half dozen of us took up the challenge.

Our challenge is to make a 'quilt' any size from 4"x6" to 30" square

using a bit of each fabric

each of the embellishments

and any other fabric/embellishment of our choice if we feel the need.

Here's most of my background using four of the six fabrics

Not too bad a selection, right ?

Well, here's where it gets to the challenge

These are the two remaining fabrics 

and the embellishments.

and a little closer view

How, oh, how am I to integrate this into 'art' ! ! ! 

Oh, I do love the challenge ! ! ! 

I'll keep you posted, hopefully my idea will pan out.

It needs just a little more tweaking.

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Susan , who IMHO is a mistress of longarm machine artistry,

Okay, okay, see for yourself if her recent quilt isn't wonderful, take a visit to Susan's Sunrise Quilt Studio

but don't forget to come back here and finish reading my post.

Anyway, Susan brought her copy of 

Art Quilting Studio  Winter 2010

[so many ideas, so little time]

this issued is packed with wonderful creative ideas

So the three of us who came to today's group

Annie, Susan and me

decided to use this issue as a basis for our next several months.

The first thing we're going to attempt

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photo-transferring to fabric using Ink Jet printing.

wooo-eeeee ! ! 

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Recently Interweave had a couple of video's for a dime each.

Lyric Kinard

was one of the artists

Much to my surprise when I downloaded her video for a dime

the dang video was some like an hour long

[Actually the other video about the same length

features  Malka Dubrawsky ]

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So, I've had this foil since forever wanting to give it a try but not really understanding the instructions.

Look at the selection!

Just sitting, waiting for it's time to shine.

Lo and behold, Lyric shows how to foil using WonderUnder.

Today was the perfect time to give it a try

not one of the three of us had 'foiled'

I traced out a star onto WonderUnder,

cut it out.

Applied it to my fabric

then

laid the foil [color side UP ! ! ]

placed a piece of parchment paper atop, just in case,

and pressed using my iron

Let it cool and pulled off the foil sheet

in the light enough to shine

not so much in the light

and a closer view.

The fabric is still soft and pliable.

There's no stopping me now ! ! ! 

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hugs

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