sewing Saturdays

welcome to this week's sewing round up! Looking back at my pictures, I realized I got a lot done this week. (I posted the week's paintings HERE)
The top picture is from one of my paintings from last week.

the black and white with the color version to the left

I painted a pretty pink flower, printed it out on fabric. Unknown to us, the printer setting for my computer was set on black and white so I figured I wasted a precious sheet,but then turned it into a design challenge.

 I put tiny squares of florals I had already, around it, a sparkly white to fill in the space around the outside, all kind of unmeasured and improv.

I used the B&W thumbnail detail images to try pencil coloring it. The shading is really too dark to showcase the delicate colored pencil though

As it turned out, I liked the finished black and white piece! That surprised me. The painting is so bright and happy.
There is room for a lot of experiments with this process, with photo manipulation and finishing techniques.

see my attempt at colored pencil over print

 I ended up machine free motion quilting in neon rayon threads, just enough color in stitch to marry the two sections.

What do you think?

the bottom one is the color print on fabric, and I'm deciding what to do with it.

I might like to have a trio of styles of this image to hang together actually, so plan to do that one 12" too, then a third experiment.  I'm so pleased that my painting and quilting are merging. Thank you to those of you who  encouraged me to print out some of them onto fabric!

Next...

I keep fabric with fusible on the back, in a scrap bin, and this week opened it up to just do another intuitive piece.
I did Three!!
All the random leftover letters went on that yellow strip above, fun to do.

all the random strings and hearts went on this one... with a few flowers and spirals

tiny squares went on this one!

A few years ago, I taught a mini make and take workshop for the Annapolis guild quilt show and these were leftover.
I quilted in one of my fave mod random right angle patterns, with variegated rayon thread. It looks messy here, and those bindings are quick and really messy, but it's a cute mug run, right?

It served it's purpose, to keep my mind off the larger situation we're facing.
I also took an embroidery class from Sue Spargo via blueprint til it goes away, and there are some really pretty effects but too many for this post so that has to be for Monday.

a teaser

just for fun, here's a pink puzzle to do
spring-cherry-blossoms

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