it's time for this week's creativity round up.... things I worked on rather than finishes this time
I take the RSC challenge to focus on a color each month, to heart. I not only pull out the purple scrap bin, but think about the shades and tints of a color, it's relationship to other colors.
I did finish this month's hexie block in purple. It's so satisfying to finish the block press it and see it all together. It starts with choosing the shades and fabric patterns, which ones to put next to the others, moving the little basted hexies around til it feels right. Sometimes I baste the whole set and don't like how they look in the block and choose another fabric.
no project too small to dither over
I now have 7 blocks done, and am already worrying over how to set them. Do I put black between each block? just sew them together into some shape then fill in around them to make a border?
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| just on the sewing table for a picture |
will it have too much movement if just set next to each other, too much to enjoy seeing on the wall?
And how will I quilt it? there are so many seams here.
My granny hand quilted every quilt she made, or tied them with little tufts of thread on top. She followed the seam lines. I seldom do that, and this would be difficult to hand quilt.
that's another decision for another day
I walk a lot lately, and on walks I often notice things in the RSC color of the month. this month it's purple so I notice what is purple on my walks....
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| clematis is purple |
I started a pair of hand knitted socks, in a summer yarn, that is stretchy and so variegated
Knitting is soothing to me, and I do it at night. Stop the day's demands, slow down, turn on the TV
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| the colors really blend and blur with this yarn |
I do like the meditative aspect of handwork. Slower, more chance to observe color, repetitive stitches add up and like in meditation my mind can ping pong or quiet down and I go with it.
I worked on this project, curvy improve joins of tiny mosaic fabric pieces to each other, then strips to strips, tidy order made from the chaos of a pile of scraps. Like tiny pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope.
I'm also working on the table scraps challenge to use purple scraps and focus on the word blossoms
I'll show it next week... it's turning out well so far
in between studio projects I turn back to just what a small shift in shade will do to this journal cover.
The circle in the center was a scrap square I cut into a circle, changing the whole feel of it.
I plan to do stitching by hand over this for a texture addition
My good sister friend Cindy sent me a box full of treasures.
I LOVE a box of things to go through. She said they were from a studio cleanse but I see nothing but treasures. The fabrics are so pretty, so useable
she said she wouldn't use them but knew I would, and she's right.
It's good to have a friend who knows you isn't it?
She sent it for my birthday meaning there is a second gift in being remembered and being "post office worthy"
notions, beads, ink blocks.... needles to try, bead scrapers, a lighted "un-stitcher" and omg
Joy sent me a birthday box with flamingo fabric, in happy colors along with a journal in pink which lifted my spirits so much!
Pat in NM sent a big box of tiny scraps that gave me hours of sorting fun, and some of those are in my current purple work.... it's like a collaboration between artists to receive the fabrics they chose to use, and now I will pick up the gauntlet and carry on in my own way.
I am so grateful
