The Fiber Funsters, my small art quilt group, met this morning at my home for our monthly meeting. Our group decided last summer to start doing a challenge piece based on a particular word every-other month. Our first word was “Opening” and we shared these pieces with each other in November. Today I […]
This week I’ve completed this windmill design for the 5 x 7 Challenge. As I mentioned previously, I haven’t done a lot of paper-piecing before, but it seemed like the perfect technique for the background color splashes which I wanted. Week 2 completed piece for the 5 x 7 ChallengeDesigned and made by Christina Fairley […]
My “Celebrate” piece (unfinished) I’m working to finish up my “Celebrate” 10 x 16 Challenge quilt for my small Art Quilt group, the Fiber Funsters. I struggled with this theme for some reason… with the holidays, it seemed like it would be a no-brainer. But I finally decided to play with some of my hand-dyed […]
Today was a fairly low-key day. I’m trying to go along with Leah Day’s Freemotion Quilting Project focus on UFO’s each Sunday. Today her FMQP blog post discusses getting negative reviews online. I guess I’m kind of shocked. I feel like Leah has given such a wealth of knowledge out for free and that she […]
Today turned out fantastic at our CQA meeting! We had the following stations for making surface-designed fabrics to contribute to Stashfest: Christina Fairley Erickson (me!): Shiva Oil Paintstick Rubbings, Stencils, Fabric Markers and Tsuneko InksCameron Mason: Mono-printing with thickened dyeColleen Wise: Thermofax silkscreening and foilingPeg Swartzman: Oil Paintsticks with resists and stencil brushesKathy Cooper: Printing […]
Sketched in pencil first from a photo, then traced to fabric and thread sketched by Carol First, I want to share Carol’s first 5 x 7 Challenge piece. Check out Carol’s blog: LandscapeLady – Art Quilts from Vermont. I think she’s done a wonderful piece and is working on a fantastic quilt of a dog in […]
You might want to start with a little history and look at Designing for a Theme: Innovation Part 1. Artist rendition of Graphene molecules With the topic “Fiber Artists Look at Innovation and Civic Action”, I personally decided to narrow down possibilities by choosing to represent innovation. Since I’ve always enjoyed science, I started with […]
Original sketched design New week, new project. Well, actually one completely new, one just finished, and another in process. First, I started my next 5 x 7 Challenge piece, which I had sketched out last week. Paper-piecing pattern In thinking about how I could most effectively make this, I decided that paper-piecing would probably be the […]
For my first week of the 5 x 7 Artist Challenge, I completed a little freehand machine-embroidered piece that I’ve been thinking about for some time. Freehand machine embroidered and quilted byChristina Fairley Erickson This zebra was adapted from a photo, drawn onto the fabric with pencil, then stitched on top. It’s difficult to see […]
I’ve been thinking once again about designing with a specific theme in mind. If you have entered into juried shows that have a theme, you know the dilemma. How literal do I need to make this piece to fit the theme? Or perhaps you’ve just skipped entering those shows. Since my preferred style in which […]
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