creativity round up Happy Easter/Spring!

 

Happy Easter/spring y'all! 

For sewing this week, I have two things to share, Bunny and a sketchbook cover both  finished! 

Last week I showed my twinkle blocks, but I might not have shared that I made tiny 3" pinwheel blocks from the cut off's making the twinkle blocks... they were hanging around on the design wall, when I put my finished hand embroidery up there...and it was a good match!

I was smitten with the whimsical line drawing by J. Steves and wanted to use my pretty embroidery threads... it didn't take long to finish the image, using a couple stitches learned on Sarah Humphrey's video of how to make 5 flowers with two stitches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-gfXsJebM

I sewed the pinwheels to each other, then onto my finished bunny piece, put a strip of hand dye under for balance. Quilted sparsely by machine, so as not to take away from the hand work, and bound in same hand dye

Used some prisma color pencils for blush! For my RSC friends, I used a pink scrap for the background as it had some kind of cool embossed design of flowers, pink scraps made the pinwheel blocks. 

the embroidery design didn't have all those stitches on the dress... I just played with cross stitch for "smocking", and lazy daisy with french knots along the hem.  Chain stitch around dress and a mix of outline and back stitching on the body.
 

 

 Last week I finished the sketchbook cover with hand embroidery too, and this week I quilted it onto stiff peltex  with my cool "painting blobs" fabric to line it. I added in some black and white to define the front.

I sewed on some elastic to hold the folded thick paper to paint on, 

 

and put a cute VW bug on as a closure

I enjoyed this video along the way...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2USots87Q
 

 and have more paintings to share later, from my workshop this month with Sketchbook Revival... a teaser is this one done from a photo on my fellow I Like, Angie's blog https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/2022/04/mosaic-monday-172-bolton-abbey.html

while painting this twice, on different papers, I learned so much and that deserves it's own post. As people say, if you can see it you can draw/paint it... Angie's photo had so much detail to see

 

So there was a lot of painting, drawing, sewing and watching creative videos this week... hope yours was full too

Linking to

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

https://wendysquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/2022/04/taupo-quiltmakers-exhibition-im-guest.html 

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

patchwork Sunday                    
oh Scrap Sundays 
 slow stitching Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
lovelaughquilt.mondays 

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

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

off the wall Fridays 

finished or not