sewing Saturday it's greening up around here

I've spent time in the studio this week, painting and sewing both equally.

I enjoy following along with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge each year because it
1. encourages us to use scraps and I love scraps
2. gives us a focus color to explore for a month
3. provides a ready made menu for the year, once you choose your patterns then it's just sew those blocks each month in the chosen color, then see what everyone else is making in same color

I admit, I'd have liked not to do turquoise, then light blue, then dark green for the last three months but I dutifully pulled out the green scrap bins.

I knew I wanted to make an art piece, something to do with color. I like to be inspired by the seasons, so turning dark greens into a spring piece was the goal.

There were many thin strips in my bin, so I started by sewing them together, and love to see tiny strips of different tones come together like a painting

 I sewed like lengths together to please myself, and I began to see they would go together into 12.5" widths.
NICE!

This would be okay on it's own! Just like this on the design wall it's about 12.5" X 44"
I don't like the idea of sewing the sections together in a straight line though... maybe I'll lay them on the batting and just quilt over the joins to connect them so there won't be a straight seam or a curved seam but an integrated up and down overlap

leftovers with fusible on the back

Next it was get out the fusible scrap box to see what kind of spring flowers I could concoct

I built them on the goddess teflon sheet, color by color, free form shape on top of free form shape. I used about 5 colors for a poppy and then a black marker to make the centers. Once they were made and in one piece I could move them around the green strips til I was content.

I see some light gray green thin strips as stems, added in curvy lines of applique, some whispy leaves.

It's pretty to see when I enter the studio!

I looked at some small strips and didn't want to put them away so I stitched them together and put the section under the others but I don't really love it right now... I think it pulls the eye from the middle section to the bottom, and one might miss the flowers.

I want a long piece I can hang in the stairwell when done.
Imagine it with lots of stitching.... pretty orange threads on poppies, pretty dark blue purple ones on lupines, gold on the white trilliums.

I also am doing a cross over art piece to go with what I learned painting the art therapy lessons on paper. I am pretty jazzed about that, and I'll have to show that to you later.
For now what I learned,
1. it's much easier to paint some projects on paper than to slowly do the color mix with fabric.
2. but what I do with watercolor isn't as easy to change as moving a piece of fabric before fusing

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