Creativity this week.... pinwheel joy, hand knitted socks, paintings and Valentine quilts

 

This week, the prompt for Stay at Home Round Robin is " pinwheels"  

I love color, and also love feedsack reproduction fabrics. Of course I have a collection of them, and have used them in many quilts over the years. I even have a big baggie of little scraps of them I pulled from to make these pinwheel blocks

I had enough scraps to make all my blocks only pulling one half yard out of orange to round out my colors! I had such fun mixing and matching the prints.

Bubbles on red, hexie's on yellow

I inserted a bit of black and white on two sides for definition (all the way around was too predictable

Bunnies on black, posies and beach scene on pinks

scotties on B&W, lillie of valley on lavender, posies on orange

I found these itty bitty YoYo (s) in the scrap bag... they MUST go on the finished quilt don't you agree? 

I didn't feel like the brain drain of drafting the perfect size blocks, and sure enough at the end, I fell short on the sides so I added in a little strip of green. 

shrug

Make do or do without as Granny would have said

I like the effect a lot even though it is totally a lot! But it's all so happy right? 

continuing  the Mary Englebreit theme, my pincushion on the cutting table is by her. 

A little story about my delight in feedsack style fabrics. I was in a large traditional guild when I lived in Annapolis Maryland. I made a predominately yellow but with a lot of the colors quilt and several people angrily said, "those are not like you! You use bright saturated colors!!" 

not being one dimensional, I said, it's SO like me to like the silly little fanciful prints and soft colors! 

My sister shared with me after seeing the lovely finished quilt, how much she hated feedsack retro fabrics. (er, okay) 

that quilt is one of my all time favorites, competed in many national contests and won ribbons. 

It's SO me... maybe I'll find it and share a pic here soon. 

I started the fun embroidery project my husband got for me

it has directions for unusual work I've not done much of, and I've already done many of the stems in green after this pic...

One sock is complete and the cuff is still to come on the other, it's fun to keep the project in my new knitting basket finished last week. 

One small painting done this week, the colors are kind of dull to me, but the gold ink heart saves it

this watercolor plus ink doodles heart is older but I just love it. it lives in a photo holder from a big box store 

one of my 30 Valentine quilts, one from each year of our marriage, this one from the year we moved to Colorado. The tree is hand embroidered in chain stitch, the flowers are paper, the word trust is from the scrapbooking section of Michaels. Around the self binding is a red beaded trim hand-stitched on. 

I've been showing some of them on the I Like posts, Thursdays. I used to do a trunk show of all quilts but haven't been able to run workshops or do speaking engagements. 

that's it for this week except for RSC color of the month blue

some feedsack scraps

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