Not Afraid of Color: November 2024

Saturday, November 2, 2024

creative time this week embroidery finished, quilting and painting

8" X 10"

Here we are again, a round-up of some of my art work for the week. I am a creative sort, and love to write, paint, draw, quilt, embroider and bead.

I also love to crochet and found a project that uses up little bits of leftover yarn so I hope to explore that next week.

I got out beads, sequins and actual rocks with holed drilled in them, and embellished this flower. Bugle beads that are copper iridescent went around the center and stem, gutterman flower sequins were added with seed beads. I used seed beads to form little flowers above the ones on the left, added seed beads along the imaginary growing weed at the top.

I enjoyed every bit of this tiny piece from the applique, to hand stitching, french knots, beads and rocks at the bottom. I chose to sew the backing on around three sides leaving the bottom open. turned it put in two layers of stiff peltex then turned the bottom edges in and did a ladder stitch to close the opening

since it's not over til you're done... and I thought I might want a bit more... some embroidery floss grass over the join at the bottom, tall and short stitches, some with a flower sequin on it would really finish it in style! For now it's sitting on the easel in the front hall.

It was started on a whim, to just sew something.

I started the RSC block for November, the EPP circle, in my color choice of the month. Gold.

The RSC leader Angela left the last months of the year our choice to finish our projects. I wanted 12 blocks so my quilt wouldn't be square so this month for me is gold. For the golden leaves I see right now! But I didn't realize gold would be kind of hard with fabric.

Is is gold? yellow? orange? tan? I did okay making the coffin shape choices but the hexies that go around is hard so I pulled some choices with the theme of dots. All my blocks have dots on the outside hexies...

How would I mix gold on the palette of paint? yellow + brown+ orange? Now that I have some, I'd use the quinacridome gold from Danielle smith!

speaking of paintings

Nina Rycroft shared a 4 lesson watercolor workshop for free online. I learned things like making wet on wet free form flowers

making characters, and other wonderful things. This is my version of alice and I like her face so much with so little pencil before, mostly shading

I love how the pink flowers look, just take a brush with pink, smear it onto the wet paper.

I lost control of the paint over the cat's mouth, so had to fill in with some ink, don't love that in these pics but in real life it's cool and DH commented on how 3-d the cat looks in person.

did I mean to do that he asked?