sewing Saturday new to me techniques

 

Today's focus will be on fiber arts since I spent the better part of this week taking a workshop on  the Zen of stitch. There were 4 - 5 videos of lessons a day, only available 24 hours so it was not zen, it was a race to see and try it all.

I began to try all the stitching on all my samples if possible, to at least experience as much as possible. 

Above is my last project for the week, embroidery quilting. I turned my little object into a needle book

with a place to tuck some new needles

and am trying to decide whether to do a large stitch bold whip stitch on the edge or add beads with a blanket stitch...

We experienced things like free form improv needle turn applique

 I used a green leaf from the scrap box (green is RSC color this month) to try stitching, and adding raw fabric patches

Tried one of three shibori dyeing techniques, which I did with paint

poured the rest of the paint onto a scrap

finished shibori with green and brown

as always with any instruction, I tweak it to suit myself. For instance for the above piece, I didn't fastidiously measure, draw pen lines, hand stitch with special knots. I folded the square in half started hand stitching a half moon, then switched to a machine basting stitch to repeat across the fabric. I daubed brown paint on one side, turned it over and daubed green paint on the other, blue in corners and let it bake in the hot colorado sun (did I mention the temps are in the 90's here already?) 

we learned to weave on a piece of cardboard...not having the right supplies since we aren't given a supply list ahead of time, I used what I had, yarn

warp yarn

mid weave

my finished piece

and I'd forgotten how satisfying and calming just a tabby weave can be.This looks good on my other samples so I will see where it ends up. No worries as I learned a new technique

I practiced beaded flower embroidery, couching a thick thread by hand, button hole stitch done improv fashion, a yoyo mushroom on this piece of jeans leg.

becoming a purse

loved the white crosses

 meanwhile I was taking another workshop this week on creative practice, and she wanted us to think about what we want when we think of our own creative process...

It was hard to view and make all the lessons this week but I got through 99% of them and just hope they stick with me. I'm not showing all the work I made because I'll save the others for another day. All this computer time really strained my body, and took up much time and focus. 

as Michaelangelo said, "I am always learning" and being a craftsperson, making.

stay tuned for more!

Linking to

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

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

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