2020 Welcome

International Free Form Fiberarts Guild

All of the Annual Challenges & Galleries are here on this site.

(Click the year dates in the TABS line above)

All of the books for each of the challenges can be found on the BOOKS tab above.

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We have a Facebook group here.
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The Annual Challenge

Every year we have a vote on what is going to be our inspiration theme for the next challenge.

The winning theme is announced on January 1st. and we then have a few months to design and create our free form fiberart piece for that theme.

The final photos are then collected and put into an online gallery and a published book.

All of the book sale profits are donated to the charity which has also been voted on by our members.

No one is allowed to show or share photos of their works until after the gallery has 'gone live' online and the book has been published.
This makes a very exciting show each year when everyone sees each others fiberart pieces for the very first time.

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Copyright

All photos, text and poems have been provided by the Artists. 

Permission for the IFFFG to publish these photos was granted by participation

 in the IFFFG challenges.

The individual artists hold the original copyright to the photos and poems that they have provided.

     Please do not abuse the copyright law.     

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2020 Andrea Graham

Andrea Graham 

Andreahorizons - Ravelry 

Andreahorizons - Facebook 

BRILLIANCE - THE FIRE WITHIN

100% Blue Faced Leicester hand dyed and hand spun. 

95% Merino with 5% stelena 

Fingerless gloves. 

Making fingerless gloves was a challenge I was set a few years ago for me. At the time I thought it would be an impossible task. 

As years have passed I have made many pairs. Each pair is still a challenge. These are out of my comfort zone using a rainbow mix of bright colours. These are also the first pair that I have made including freeform knitting with crochet. 

It was following the "fire within" that I even started playing with freeform. Continuing to follow the "fire within" who knows what what can be achieved. 

                     

2020 Tia M.M. Hegstad

Tia M.M. Hegstad

from Edinburgh, Scotland, currently living in Moss, Norway.

All I could think of when I heard the theme for this year, brilliance, was diamonds.  I love the way prisms and crystals catch the light and radiate different colours, so I decided to make my paper pieced diamond (my own design) colourful.  The flames from within are bursting out from the top of the diamond, and I found some lovely sequins and crystals in my stash which I used to embellish them.  The background fabric was one I was given that I never thought I'd find a use for, due to the gold flecks, but I think it works well here.

I woke up at 2.48 am on Tuesday the 7th of April and came up with the first line of my poem- that's why the moon was shining.  I'd written the rest by 2.56 am.

My Project Journey

Idea sparking,

Ember glowing,

Flame igniting, 

Brilliance forming.

Machine sewing,

Fabric joining,

Crochet stitching,

Shape appearing.

Artwork framing,

Diamond glinting,

Flames burning,

Brilliance growing.

Moon shining,

Corona threatening,

Hand writing,

Poem flowing.

Completion.

                                  

 

2020 Suzanne Barr

Suzanne Barr

Hadleigh, Essex, UK

Rainbow of Hope

"Without the rain there would be no rainbows."

I had thought of lots of different things to do to fit this year's challenge, but in the light of what has been happening in the world, this symbol of hope for the future seemed to be the only one to choose.  (I am sure I will not be the only one to choose a rainbow)

 The rainbow reflects future brightness and the light within reflects our determination to survive and hopefully make the world a better place.  

I made my rainbow 46cm wide, and have hung it in my front window.

                                       

2020 Sirpa Viitanen

Sirpa Viitanen

Karjaa, Finland

http://sipsansilmut.blogspot.fi/ 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sipsa

The Queen of the Moonlight

I spin the silverthreads of the bluewhite nature

Blue is the sky

Blue are the eyes

Blue are the lakes

reflecting the blue sky

White are the blankets of snow

White are the summer nights

White are the clouds, sheeps of the blue sky

                                   

 

2020 Rita Summers

Rita Summers

Tasmania, Australia

www.gonerustic.com

Facebook - gonerusticstudiogallery

Instagram - @gonerustic

Crucible

As I trap layers of freeform crochet and eco dyed scrap materials between a stabiliser that ultimately dissolves, never to be seen again, I unconsciously make visual the cycle of loss, fragmentation and the threads that somehow hold us together.

Fragments, scribbled stitch, odd shapes, the seepage of light (interior light) through the gaps - I am only now beginning to realise what it all means.

It is a lost map, a fragile crucible, the intangible becoming tangible. And I have no idea where this journey will lead me.

Materials - silk crochet; naturally dyed silk fabric, teabag paper and yarn; free motion machine stitched.

                                       

2020 Pauline Fitzpatrick

Pauline Fitzpatrick

 Derbyshire, England

Ravelry: crochetblue

Facebook: Pauline Fitzpatrick Crochet

The Brilliance in my piece is the snowdrops which come through in our front garden in the New Year. 

                                   

2020 Margaret Moore

Margaret Moore

North Alabama, USA

sharecropper on ravelry

Margaret Moore Holmberg on facebook

The Abyss

The chaos of my creativity seeps outward from The Abyss, a pit filled with all my life experiences and feelings. 

The center of darkness, like the birthplace of diamonds, fills with pressure and sends both waves and sinuous arms to the conscious world to become manifest. 

The fire within always burns with smoldering angst, smoky shadows, and fiery outbursts. 

(Translation: My creative inspiration comes from my life which had some hard times.)