More fun! Silk Fusion

Silk Fusion Heart

It started with a simple question: "Want to meet me for a cup of coffee?" Sure, I replied, but only a quick one, I have tons of stuff I have to do (stuff=work for the family, errands, dry cleaning to pick up, bank deposits, oil change, etc.)

2 1/2 hours later, I'm running out the door trying to make it to preschool on time to pick up little bits.

But what a fun couple of hours, spent with Jan, Kristin and Sharon as we played with felting and silk fusion.

Time Flies when you're having fun!

I joined the Fast Friday Fabric challenge, a spin-off from Quiltart.com the first challenge was issued a few weeks ago. On a Friday morning the challenge is issued and participants have a week to finish their quilts.

September's challenge was Fall Colors with a 3-d element. Scores of ideas came to mind, but I settled on this one.

Harvest Moons

I love to free-form-cut fabric. This fabric is ArtFabrik that my mom bought me for my birthday last year. (Thanks Mom, it is gorgeous). I tightly quilted the piece, leaving half moon shapes as contrast. The moons are appliqued. I am going to take them off, make them slightly larger and re-do my edge stitching which was done at 3:00 am so I think it's a bit sloppy. My 3-D element? The moons, the stitching, hey come on, quilting makes fabric 3-d!

Harvest Moons - close up

Like Illustration Friday, Self Portrait Tuesday, Photo Friday and other creative challenges in cyber-space, the FastFriday Fabric Challenge is a great way to stretch your creative mind, execute a project on a small scale, and under the pressure of a looming deadline. What the deadline does for me is it pushes me to finish, and not continuously alter, "correct" or completely change my concept halfway through!

Don't let life get in the way of creating. That's hard to do especially if you have children, a job, a husband, a dog, or a cat! And certainly if you have a blog! Bye, gotta go make some art.