Not Afraid of Color: sketching

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

creativity this week... sewing, runs with scissors, sketching and a cookie

welcome to my creativity round up for the week...

This is my rainbow scrap challenge purple piece for the week.... all the papers are now basted and ready for me to hand stitch while watching tv tonight. I love having a variety of scraps so that I can see my fabrics! I'm trying to do dots in all the joining hexie shapes in each colorway.

I used my portable design table (cardboard covered in felt) to arrange these a few days ago. I didn't like one of them so I found another scrap to baste around the paper and it's ready now!

One day I was a bit low and just needed to see fabric sewn to fabric... so I pulled out the little bag of solid color tiny scraps and did just that

I made some log cabins without worrying about straight or even bits, and then sewed them together. I made more improv geese, later piecing the strip between two black strips, using free form curvy sewing

then found 25 squares of grunge fabric, who knows where they came from. and since I love grunge, I sewed the 2 1/2" squares together in a pleasing way.

Oh how pretty they are! then I made the log cabin strip and the geese strip fit the squares,

and decided to add in more odd strips of solid fabrics, pleasing myself.

I am LOVING this!! I cut out some little hexies of solid colors plus black, and plan to hand baste those and maybe add in that as another strip set, just keep going.

well, at some point it will feel done, and I'll stop. My plan now is to do some hand embroidery stitching somewhere on it but don't know how yet. Now that I like it so much, I want to keep it very modern version of amish style.

Funny thing is this week I googled mondrian and was looking at his art work... and this is reminiscent of his style.

jay stanley: Piet Mondrian | Abstract | Contemporary art | Fine art prints, reproductions, print on demand, framing

While Joy and I chatted on zoom this week, I asked if she knew when the round robins were due? She looked it up and

uh oh

about 2 weeks, so I pulled my top out, put on bright blue borders,

chose a backing, pieced some bamboo batting, pressed the top well, and the backing, then pin basted it ready to start quilting! Nothing like a deadline to keep you going! I love seeing a quilt pin basted, and doing the first quilting lines to stabilize it for free motion.

I wrote several stories, meeting my writing goal too, but the real creative work was having the grand idea to add chocolate chips to my chewy coconut cookies lol!taste is like a mounds bar.

(link on Thurs "I Like" list post)

this is an off week for PQ, thank goodness!

While watching a video of SoulManna this week, I doodled and jotted down points to remember on a piece of copier paper... this is just a bit of it...

I felt very seen as she talked!

linking with some of these:

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/monday-musings-6-26-23/

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

Midweek makers wednesdays

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

Saturday, March 9, 2024

creativity this week, Project Quilting challenge met, purple scraps used and a few sketches for fun

see the fashionable ladies who lunch???

This was Project Quilting week, meaning we were given a prompt of "wearable" and one week to design, make and finish a project. She said we could include clothing fabric

cupcakes, fat chefs, chocolates!

repurpose a wearable

like an old Christmas apron?

or make something to actually wear, and I needed an apron so...

I picked fabrics starting with the fancy chefs, and fussy cut some strips to use, started piecing them large enough to cover the apron...

I cut around the apron with enough to fold under to stitch to the edge of the apron, and made a leeeetle ruffle of a scrap of dotted fabric just big enough to cut a few bias 2" strips.

Fold those in half and gather , insert into the bottom stitching. A few quilting lines to secure the lightweight fabric to the canvas xmas apron, and it's done!

the little ruffle reminds of of 50's aprons, plus looks good from the xmas side

I may not love to cook, but do an awful lot of it, now I can giggle every time I see the candy, cupcakes, fancy chefs, and fat ones!!!

I spent some time watching some drawing videos... one was 8 lessons to try starting with single line drawings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5B8kCsvME)

I have paper by the computer to write morning pages sometimes, so I grabbed one and sketched what I saw, coffee mug, fork and glasses. I usually hate that form of drawing but actually enjoyed it this morning. Maybe because I used my fountain pen in deep black, the flow of ink, the scritch of metal as the pen dances across paper... I've always loved a fountain pen

On this day, I watched a video by Lucky Luna art... two zentangles... those are great because they show you step by step how to draw intricate images. Just add a line, then another, then another... I like how the serrated leaf is made by little dashes, then go back with a v inserted between them! Shade a bit with pencil and brushstix to blend it

The color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is purple. I watched my friend Cindy making a Kwandi style quilt to go behind her bed, where you prepare a backing, batting, and then hand stitch squares to it. I never tried that so, I thought make a little one with some purple scraps to try it.

5" X 8"

It was tedious to turn little edges, hold while hand stitching, but I think I got the idea at least and used some scraps. I played with my embroidery threads, loving how the colors show, not worrying the least about stitch length or being even or anything other than letting my mind wander a bit

I liked the little french knots with thick perle cotton, the flowers, running stitch with french knots added in. Then it didn't fit well into my new book for hand stitching things (from two weeks ago)

so I played with it enjoying the feel of it, the slight gathering that big stitch makes, the texture and subtle colors until...

it became a camera case for my point and shoot. Yep, a canon, I like much much more than my iphone camera...

the back

when you fold it you get to see little cropped bits... and notice different things. I liked doing the chain stitch, I closed in some buttonhole stitch to become little boxes... I do love handwork and might add some into my sunflower piece after it's quilted.

happy creating!

project quilting #5

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/monday-musings-6-26-23/

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

Midweek makers wednesdays

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

Saturday, August 5, 2023

must create....

patterns from the book the paper pieced home

a few pics of my creative work this week. Even in times of trouble, my spirit wants to make something

the scrap color of the month at RSC is yellow. I do love yellow although the only shade I can wear is saturated lemon yellow almost gold.

the patterns are a pure challenge but I envision a small summer travel wardrobe and since I was a teen in the 70's, these styles remind me of the sundresses I made to wear all the time... next week I will share some cute embroidered jeans and halter tops too...