my creative week.... a workshop, a little paint, a lot of sewing

 welcome to my creativity round up for the last week of October 2022.

Relax!?? when there is so much to do??

no not raking, 

ART-ing!!! 

The little index card with a message for me on it is about all I've painted except for fabric this week. I started with a word written with stabillo crayon, and wet brush dragged the paint into a shadow. Then leaves drawn with pigma marker, painted with watercolors, it was done! 

A workshop lesson this week was to try block printing on fabric

 

square stamp with spirals, lumiere paint

I used a foam brush to spread paint on a square stamp, stamped 8 times around a square with Stuart Gill metallic blue paint. Then a dog running was stamped in a loose circle with copper paint, and tiny hearts stamped inside in a 9 X 9 format.

I think I needed padding under the plastic bag for a better impression but like the idea of using one stamp repeatedly to make a pattern. 

another instructor suggested making a hand stitched needle book with overlapping scraps...

front and back

and pages insde from batting to hold needles

I thought, these are cute little Christmas gifts... hey here's a little Christmas fabric scrap 2.5" X 3.5"

little sequin stars and some beads

it holds needles believe it or not!

who doesn't like a miniature thing? 

rainbow scrap challenge color of the month is light green, so I did my wish upon a star block to go with all the colors so far....

all done in repro feedsack fabrics

the block with cutest little repro prints

I did a few little hexies in light green....

 a piece of hugo's thread control plastic bundles them to use later

they will  go with these two large diamonds

and the Pièce de résistance! another fall scrap piece completed from the gifted scraps from Jan at colorful fabriholic!

some close ups of metallic quilting thread etc

and general quilting

This is so pretty in person, and fits our Colorado house so well, I expect it might stay up all year

that about ties it up for this week.... working on this for next week

lots to quilt here, maybe in a couple weeks! lol

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Midweek makers wednesdays  

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off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

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finished or not