My creative week.... workshops, learning, and sewing

 

welcome to this week's creativity round-up!  I signed up for three workshops of varying demands for this week, how did that happen... the reason I sign up for these free online workshops is you never know what you'll learn in them. For instance, the fabric hanging bucket above came from day one on Rebecca Page's Christmas crafts workshop. 

the back of the folded hanging container

I didn't end up making any others of the 41 projects on offer, but I did print out the patterns for several

that look like things I'd like. Back to the container....I made two actually. The one out of mary englebreit fabric is the smallest size, and this is the largest 

since I thought it was to be for Christmas, I got out my bag of Christmas print strips to use

instructor Katy McKinley

sewing them together to fit the pattern piece, had just the right size fusible batting for it, then quilted it while it was open, with of course sparkly mylar threads....

you sew a side seam, and a bottom seam, fold it to stitch across the last two bottom seams

finishing off the outside... sew the lining into a bag too, tuck one into the other...

sew across the top leaving a place to turn it right sides out, inserting a hang tab. I think it would be good for my winter knitting projects by my chair

you could fold the top down like a sock

the pattern was only available in the workshop I think... and came with four sizes, I like that it has a square bottom and sits up usefully. Like I said, I watched the other videos but haven't made the projects. 

the collage workshop was a bust but I watched the available videos. Not everyone is good at these. 

the third workshop through Strathmore,(LINK) drops a video once a week and was excellent! Free too.

I did try to start quilting the big kaleidoscope quilt top from last fall:

All the seams, plus warm and natural batting made it so heavy and cumbersome it set off my shoulder blade injury so I had to stop after doing a couple rounds of straight line quilting to lock it in.

Moving on to the color of the month, neutral... I finished up putting setting strips in tan/beige around the acorns. I kept them in two sections to make quilting easier, and will join them after that is done, and reveal the finished project for Table Scraps next week if all goes well. the finished tops are 10" X 33" and 10" X 37"

but the acorns are made of 1" squares, and the improv geese even smaller... see?

Table scraps challenge is to use scraps to make something "mini" and use the RSC color of the month, which is brown/neutrals

a few months ago, I started doing little hexies in the scrap color of the month to have a hand project to work on in front of the tv

I'm doing them in diamond shapes, in that month's color, three are now done, orange, purple/green, and 

Brown!

and I'm starting with my 2" squares of neutral with prints....

I like the illustrator, Joanna Basford and get her newsletters. She sent a link to her free coloring advent calendar this month...

and the images are Saaaaa-weet! One could blow them up for their kids, or do them yourself with colored pencils.... sign up for her newsletter and she sends out notices and free things every other month or three.  Lots of ornaments to make on youtube tutorials... go finding.... but for now... we're officially starting the holidays and happy Thanksgiving ....

happy Arting y'all

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 slow stitching Sundays                

oh Scrap Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts
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http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

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off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

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finished or not