Feb 20th
My two pieces for the upcoming Ladies First show with the Tart Gallery!
She Follows Her Heart
11″x14″ , paint on fabric, quilted and embellished with sequins and beads and gloss finish on select areas
Ready to hang with a ribbon loop attached to the back and signed by me!
Her Hair Looks Like A Bird’s Nest
11″x14″ , paint on fabric, quilted and embellished with sequins and beads and gloss finish on select areas
Ready to hang with a ribbon loop attached to the back and signed by me!
Both pieces are for sale with the show, and it will be travelling to various galleries, starting in Toronto for the month of April, then on to Asbury Park, Phoenix, and maybe a couple of other stops too!
Posted by cynthia f in My Art |
Feb 19th
Action shot of Sherri!
Yesterday I hosted an art + fabric day at my house which was amazing and fun and bliss all rolled into one! I invited a few crafty fabric loving peeps to come play with techniques from the book Sew Wild. After a huge and delicious potluck lunch, including birthday cupcakes for Barbara,
we got started with a little chunk of fabric and sharpies & passed it around the table just drawing on it with Sharpies- not thinking about what you were doing too much, just make marks and pass it along, getting those creative juices going. Then we got down to business with some bits of fun foam to make prints, sharpies, paint, and some lace to use as stencils and make prints with, from the amazing stash my wonderful and über generous pal Rosanna sent me!
Barbara, Sherri, Carol, Lysa, Mary, and my mum Marg, digging in to the goodies!
Sherri and Barbara
Mary’s awesome experiments on velvet
My mum Marg’s stencilling and stamping with lace and metallic paint
Lysa and Carol working the fabric and paint
And some of the fantastic fabrics that everyone made!
My creations!
All in all a fantastic day filled with fun and friends, and a little Billy Idol thrown in there for good measure!
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a fun day- shall we do it again? How about now? Now?
Posted by cynthia f in Buddies, Crafty crafts, My Art |
Feb 17th
The February installment of our Unscripted all Canadian Bee!
This month there were no rules other than “improv” and use all of the fabric that was sent, and you could make the block, or blocks, any size or any shape. I used almost all of the fabric and made 4 blocks! I made one large mosaic block, ala the Mod Mosaic by Oh Fransson, and 3 crumb blocks.
(I made one minor error in the “grout” which I noticed after it was done. Humph! It’s more “improv” that way right?)
I framed one with some of my own pink (also ok to add from our stashes) as I ran out of the white that was supplied, more improv!
This quilt is going to be a stunner by the looks of the blocks that are coming in! SEW much fun!
More sew-y crafty goodness coming your way soon, I have been given not one, but two amazing quilted presents which I will share you with you once it stops raining & I can take ‘em outside to get nice photos, I am a lucky lucky gal I must say! Plus I am hosting a crafty day at my house tomorrow, with some fab crafty peeps coming to play with fabric and SHARPIES! Yessss! Stay tuned & happy weekend to you!
Posted by cynthia f in Quilts n' such, Sewing, Unscripted... |
