This is not a quilt blog, but...

My niece, Barbara, makes beautiful quilts and works part time at a quilt store. I visited her shop a couple of years ago and was amazed at the fabulous fabrics available for making quilts!  I don't have the urge to make quilts at this time; but who knows what will happen in the future?  Meantime, I know that quilt fabric stores are great sources for lovely fabrics to use in collage and other artwork.  With that in mind, I visited Red Hen Fabrics in Marietta Saturday.  It was a lovely visit!  I got to see lots of lovely quilts and found some nice little fabric remnants.  Here are some pictures.

Here's what I bought:

The blue fabric at the top of the photo is a fat quarter.  I really fell in love with this fabric!  The next 4 pieces are "fat eighths" which contain plenty of fabric for artwork.  The geisha fabric at the bottom is 1/4 yard.  These pictures were so pretty!  You can look for these things to show up in my artwork.

So Artful Challenge - Maude Fealy

This week's Soartful Challenge subject is the American stage star Maude Fealy.  Maude had a very varied career.  She still has fans today who love to collect her beautiful postcards.

I decided to frame Maude's beauty with one of my favorite bead-woven necklaces featuring Swarovski crystals.

Raw Silk - Blissfull ATCs March Swap

This is for Blissfull ATC's March Swap.  This is the first Blissfull swap in which I've participated! My partner is Electra.  We were given this image which had to appear somewhere on our Artist Trading Card:

I made this ATC card using a silk-like fabric background.

I transferred the 2 images onto satin fabric using TAP paper. 

The tie is raffia, and the dragonfly is from the Vintaj line.

Two Matroyshka Doll ATC Cards

For a trade.

ATC Card for my friend

The card starts out with cardstock, to which I glued fabric.  Then I whip-stitched around the entire card.   Embellished, affixed the tie and - voila!

Gothic Art Challenge - Fabric

I glued a piece of curtain lace to a piece of stiff fabric.  Then I stamped the tree images using Stazon Saddle Brown.  I then hand-beaded one of he trees, using three shades of beads.  I used an ink marker to color the clouds and skies.

Classic

Inkurable Stampers Gothic Arch Challenge - Lace

Here's my second gothic arch card for Inkurable Stampers' Challenge.

2010 Dress Up Challenge

I am taking Alice and Camilla's 2010 Dress Up Challenge.  The challenge is to design a dress for each month of the re is my 2010 dress - rather simple, I know - but inspired by the three inches of snow that Atlanta got Friday.  For a day or so, it looked like a winter wonderland outside, a sight which we southerners rarely see.  The dress is stamped with blue snowflakes and is fit to be worn by a snow queen!  Stay tuned for more dresses as 2010 goes by.

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This is a fabric-covered card. The tape is meant to be used to make stained glass items.