creativity this week... sewing, runs with scissors, sketching and a cookie

 

welcome to my creativity round up for the week... 

This is my rainbow scrap challenge purple piece for the week.... all the papers are now basted and ready for me to hand stitch while watching tv tonight. I love having a variety of scraps so that I can see my fabrics! I'm trying to do dots in all the joining hexie shapes in each colorway. 

I used my portable design table (cardboard covered in felt) to arrange these a few days ago. I didn't like one of them so I found another scrap to baste around the paper and it's ready now!

One day I was a bit low and just needed to see fabric sewn to fabric... so I pulled out the little bag of solid color tiny scraps and did just that

I made some log cabins without worrying about straight or even bits, and then sewed them together. I made more improv geese, later piecing the strip between two black strips, using free form curvy sewing

then found 25 squares of grunge fabric, who knows where they came from. and since I love grunge, I sewed the 2 1/2" squares together in a pleasing way. 

Oh how pretty they are! then I made the log cabin strip and the geese strip fit the squares, 

and decided to add in more odd strips of solid fabrics, pleasing myself. 

I am LOVING this!!  I cut out some little hexies of solid colors plus black, and plan to hand baste those and maybe add in that as another strip set, just keep going. 

well, at some point it will feel done, and I'll stop. My plan now is to do some hand embroidery stitching somewhere on it but don't know how yet. Now that I like it so much, I want to keep it very modern version of amish style. 

Funny thing is this week I googled mondrian and was looking at his art work... and this is reminiscent of his style. 

While Joy and I chatted on zoom this week, I asked if she knew when the round robins were due? She looked it up and 

uh oh

about 2 weeks, so I pulled my top out, put on bright blue borders,

chose a backing, pieced some bamboo batting, pressed the top well, and the backing, then pin basted it ready to start quilting! Nothing like a deadline to keep you going! I love seeing a quilt pin basted, and doing the first quilting lines to stabilize it for free motion. 

I wrote several stories, meeting my writing goal too, but the real creative work was having the grand idea to add chocolate chips to my chewy coconut cookies lol!taste is like a mounds bar.

(link on Thurs "I Like" list post) 

this is an off week for PQ, thank goodness! 

While watching a video of SoulManna this week, I doodled and jotted down points to remember on a piece of copier paper... this is just a bit of it...

I felt very seen as she talked! 

linking with some of these:

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/monday-musings-6-26-23/ 

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

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/