This creative week ...working in Fabric with orange tones

Index card art... One Line Leads to Another

Welcome to this week's creativity round up... a bit of paint on fabric, lots of stitching, and a bit of recharging going on at Chez LeeAnna's. The first pic was a continuous line drawing with thick pen on index card and I wrote one line leads to another with the letters all touching too. 

I find that to be the case...  

I enjoy many art/craft forms... and find I go back and forth between them. This week was spent back in my sewing studio, working with orange scraps because that's the color focus of the month at rainbow scrap challenge. 

 I saw a quiltmaker using these x blocks to do a big cross stitch quilt and thought how fun to play with this repetitive shape and lots of scraps. 

right now these are about 3-3.5" squares

 I needed to see fabric sewn to fabric this week, needed something that required little of me. 

You start with a 3" background square, cut in half on the diagonal. Insert a 1.25" strip, trim to square, then cut across that on diagonal and insert another 1.25" strip between the two. There is a little matching requiring a small ruler but other than that, it was good to play and imagine the possible color combinations as you sewed. 

I listened to several books on audio as I sewed. The design wall filled up with projects:

I have been making a twinkler block in each month's color way this year, and love the energy and happiness orange brings to the group...

Twinkler block pattern from Superscrappy

Orange in some amount or form will make any quilt sparkle. It's not as dense as red, not as pale as yellow.... but somehow makes me optimistic.

Did you notice the orange fabric on the wall?  It started as a piece of plain white about 9" X 20"

I used these to paint it

fuchia, golden yellow, sparkly rust

 by wetting the fabric, putting it in the pan, pouring on color, and mushing it around with some extra water. 

 

After the fabric absorbed the paint, there was still pretty watery paint left so I dunked in a strip of lavender with dots, and a scrap of old calico with red somethings

calico repurposed

I loved how the lavender absorbed the paint, and turned a great shade of pinkish orange!!! 

Ya never know! 

just try it!

so after it was very wet, I sort of mushed it out onto a plastic garbage bag and left in the hot 100 F colorado air to dry. 

Heat press, rinse with clear water and iron. 

this is intended to make this month's table scraps using orange scraps plus embroidery.... Still deciding on threads to use, and designs if any. 

maybe poppies? Maybe a big pumpkin? 

still needing therapeutic sewing... I moved on to really tiny thready strips...

and have no idea what will become of them... they did their job in calming my spirit so they will likely return to the orange scraps bin unless they become the table scraps piece... heyyyy a thick black thread embroidered just so might look like a poppy...

DH brought in two shirts with ragged hole/rips in them for mending so that's on the docket for this week. One is a Yale tshirt, bought on one of our trips... I would have loved going to school there but when I came of age, no one told me it was possible. Going on to university was enough and probably wasted on a "girl" 

two poorly shirts in the mending hospital

 One shirt is a black linen button down, totally terrific except for where the tear happened along the grain line and disintegrated into thready chaos.  I fused fabric to the back of each rip, and will go over with matching threads. It will be nearly invisible, especially when we seldom leave the house these days of infection running rampant. 

I basted and arranged the pretty orange hexies to be sewn at night as well. So it turned out this week was one of fabric... but I feel the pull of paint, beads, and book binding. The life of a creative person is never dull

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday                    

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

tgiffriday 

finished or not

art for fun Friday

I Like Thursday # 310

 

doesn't everyone have a pink ukelele on the mantle?

welcome to this week's list of likes... 

Land Management

still waiting for the bell peppers to flower and fruit! This little ladybug is helping! I like ladybugs, circles on a circle!  Does anyone know what this wild flower is called? Love my patio pots of blooms!
 

 Being Creative

I've painted fabric this week, sewn blocks, hand sewing hexies in oranges, and planning embroidery on the painted piece... more on Saturday. Last Saturday's creativity round up is seen here: 

https://lapaylor.blogspot.com/2022/08/creativity-round-up-for-first-week-of.html

 

 

making books now too

watching on tv

same things.... plus Love Island (don't judge, it's summer) and same shows mentioned in previous weeks. The Chair, Brokenwood, Murdoch Mysteries, Chateau DIY, big brother, and whatever movie looks good on the weekends on Netflix.

reading

audio 

ebook

Summer Wine review

Love this for patio sitting enjoyment... sort of tart and sweetish but perfect

 the prompt this week is what seasonal fruit or vegetable are you liking right now? 

Watermelon! Since there are two of us (Milo doesn't like watermelon) we get kind of a small one and try to get seedless. We used to slice it, then cut off the rind and have it in a bowl. 

We have gone the easy route now, and use an ice cream scoop to put balls of melon in a bowl...

 

 so easy, the leftovers can have saran wrap cover and put in fridge.

 

I also am in love with peaches. Nothing special with fresh peaches... just eaten cut in half, pit pulled out, dripping down my arm! I use frozen peaches for cobblers. 

I love fresh bruchetta made with vine ripened tomatoes but food is so expensive in Colorado, and I can't go to a roadside stand, can't grow tomatoes in Aurora (tried for three years) so I seldom make bruschetta. I used to dice tomatoes, shred fresh basil, minced garlic, minced onion, lemon juice and a splash of apple cider vinegar. Let flavors meld, and serve on hard chips. 

Milo's Moments 

 Hi Y'all... before you ask, it IS hot enough for me!

too hot to chase the ball!

I like that the bedroom is cool now due to Daddy getting us a noisy cold making machine so a dog can sleep better on the bid bed snuggled up to his peeps

I like  burgers and Mama always gives me some of theirs at lunch.
 Mama: er, Milo, those are VEGGIE burgers. 

Milo: don't spoil it Mama! I thought they were meat, they taste like meat and are good! 

Mama: go ahead and think they are meat...and be glad your peeps share! 

Milo: I like to stand next to the counter to remind you to share... thanks Mom!

please visit these people to read what they like right now too!

 http://littlepenguinquilts

 craftscaviescontras   

http://www.piecefulthoughts.com

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

 

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

 http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

 https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/   

 

 the knitty quilter

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

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Melva Loves Scraps

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Faith, Trust and Breast Cancer  

https://quiltschmilt.ca/blog-posts/

princess bubbles creates   

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http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com  

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

 

 

                                                                  LINKING WITH 

https://brianshomeblog.com/ 

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://www.knitbygodshand.com/   

http://all4boys.blogspot.com/2022/08/thankful-thursday_02125806378.html

friday smiles at a stitch in time   

floral passions 

rosie and the boys nature pics  

 

creativity round up for the first week of August

 

this was a full week of creativity at chez LeeAnna's!  Above is the little hexie project now with orange scraps being added in... a night time stitching project. 

now, how am I gonna close that box again!?

The color of the month at Rainbow Scrap challenge is Orange, use those orange scraps! 

This week I took a free online paper crafts class at Rebecca Page, as well as sewing a good bit. I'll show you the things I spent time on, so let's start the show! Starting with fabric...

this fussy little star, pattern by Gyleen Fitzgerald, was made with repro feedsack fabrics, like all the other months of colors... now how am I gonna set these when all 12 are done? Suggestions?

I also set these little scrap geese with free form curvy piecing... don't know where it is headed but it also needs more borders and pieced work...

Sadly this year's index card prompt a day is now over... this is the last one...

prompt is "prism"

not much painting this week as I was busy learning new craft forms using paper... but I sneaked in a little bit, using some tombow watercolor markers and some stamps

use tombow markers to paint your stamps for use on paper

Overall, there were on average around 6-7 presentations a day, but I related to only a few this time. These fine folk use appliances I don't have, and apps and tools.... so I adapted the lessons to suit what I have. Over time I have accumulated some interesting papers that behave like fabric, and some embossed papers some from Joann, some from Paper source. I got those out along with stamps. 

I learned how to bind books two ways by making little ones. These are bound with ribbons that also hold the signatures in place. The inside papers are all made with copier paper

I was so enthralled with these 4.5" X 5.5" books I made a third one ! Along life's way, I purchased a bag of cute paper quotes, and one went well here...

Another presentation showed us a more traditional form of book binding that connected all inside papers with thread to the binding... I used a thick scrap booking paper from Joann for this one...

SO cute! I used my new book binding kit from Amazon (links on Thursday's I Like post) and was purely gleeful at how useful this little kit is. Can't wait to get into more book binding !

I colored in some of the embossed swirls with a posca pen and gold ink, then pasted on ribbon with a word on it, for the inside cover. When learning I try to use fun supplies but not worry if there is a stray mark or hole, after all it's a learning project. 

I also enjoyed some oragami projects. For these I used some printed sheet music from DH... and stamped or drew over it 

crane

little boxes

I love these little boxes. The top one was made with some greeting cards sent to us from colonial williamsburg once... I cut them into squares to make this

gosh I hope I remember how to fold these for the future. It sure was fun!!!

last was the tiny ornament box, to hold tiny gifts or advent calendar gifts...

made with in embossed silver sheet of paper from Joann's

All this was fitted in around the usual house demands, laundry, cleaning, cooking, poodle ear treatments, yard management... all necessary but all in all, I'd rather be creating something!! 

thank you to friends Joy and Kathleen who zoomed with me this week, as well as Diane and Cindy who chatted with me by phone.  It's a wonderful thing to be able to connect in some way. 

technology has made me less happy. An update to the computer removed the browser button for a new tab, and removed the compose new email button from that program. That took way too long to correct. I still am unable to comment on many blogs, and comments to mine often don't go onto the post, just to the blogger home page. Grrrr..... so thank you to creative endeavors to balance the aggravating!

Hope you're all able to find time to express yourself in the coming week!

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday                    

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays 

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

tgiffriday 

finished or not

art for fun Friday