QuiltArt Raven Challenge

The Raven Challenge, created and coordinated by Lynda Thompson, was recently unveiled. My two fiberart postcards, "Nevermore" and "Poe Meets Frost" will be contributed to the Fiberart For A Cause Collage Mania, to raise money for the American Cancer Society. (Please see my earlier post of January 12 for more details.) Here are the two cards:

"Nevermore", front and back:




"Poe Meets Frost", front and back:

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

Lynda Thompson of the QuiltArt List organized a Raven Challenge to honor the January 200th birthday celebration of Edgar Allan Poe. The theme was "raven", and the parameters were a 4x6" postcard size. Above is my interpretation of "Nevermore", a mixed-media fiberart postcard, using acrylic paints and thread painting on cotton fabric. Click on the picture for a more detailed image.

An additional element of the challenge was the opportunity to contribute our postcards to Virginia Spiegel's Collage Mania, a part of her Fiberarts for a Cause, which has raised over $165,000 so far for the American Cancer Society. Since this is a cause near and dear to my heart, this little postcard is of course going directly to Collage Mania for sale. More about it later ... it won't be until May of this year, and I can't wait!

Thank you, Lynda, for organizing this challenge, and Virginia for giving my "Nevermore" a way to contribute to FFAC!