The finished top of X blocks above is pressed and ready to pin baste then quilt. Still not sure what to quilt. I've been seeing stars this week in studio. The color of the month at RSC is light blue and here is my twinkle block for the month.
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| pattern source superscrappy |
I use scraps and find some botanicals to use when I can. The center was a scrap I tried out a stamp on.
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| uses the tri rec tools |
I also made in blue scraps, the pattern https://www.americanquilter.com/media/AQS-pattern-104%20(1).pdf
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| "wish upon a star" pattern |
next is a bit of drawing....pen and ink
I tried gesture drawing (on my desk calendar page) in brush ink pen... love them. I got the idea after seeing a stencil for sale online with similar but better done shapes. Stencil Girl store, the designer selling stencils is Valerie Sjodin. I realized it doesn't take much effort to do a simple gesture drawing.
Next up is an index card painting. The idea was to draw around your watercolor paint lines, that are not usually noticed. Where one color bleeds into another. Outlined here in either stabilo crayon, black ink, or pigma ink in blue. I used quinacridone gold (my current favorite color) fushia and coral.
after that dried, I followed the blended color lines with ink, then added in marks with brush pen, white gel, and gold gel pens. While it's not my usual style, it was interesting, making me look closely at blended color lines. After I finished I looked for recognizable symbols... I see mountains and distance, petroglyphs found on mountains, an old gold mining map.... gosh. The colors blended into a southwest feel from really saturated ones when wet.
it's small, didn't take long but kept my interest to the end. Looks different horizontally
So I finished all-but-sewing-binding-down two more wall quilts this week which I'll share next week for Table scraps reveal. I broke down and used a rich beautiful rust color for the fall piece, and blue scrap strips for the other tropical UFO, a sample from teaching a kids class years ago.
While cleaning off the cutting table and studio space, I came across a baggie of these string scraps
I questioned my own reasoning in keeping them, and decided they were pretty. But I felt like using them that day and thought....what if I wove them. So I did, and put fusible scraps on the back
and hung the group on the design wall... O. M. Dog. I LOVE them! I instantly saw a tree...
and that's how the next project came to be born!
I'll do that again I think, it's such a surprise to see what shows up since I wove it upside down so I could put fusible on it. I love the impressionist feeling. I like that one longer strip of green was used over and over instead of different fabrics each time. I see the value in repetition, an art principle. The challenge will be to make myself leave the straggling edges instead of tidying it up. Can't wait to quilt it!
last up, a card made for a friend...
and my mark that goes on the back of all cards
Linking to
design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays
