Saturday, April 5, 2025

Creatively this week.... a quilt finish, two paintings (& two works in progress)

 

welcome to this week's round up of creativity starting with one of my design wall works in progress. The color of April's scrap challenge is teal, and I include turquoise and aqua in for myself.
 (This just in, the color of April now is red, oy vey!)

I love this background fabric, it's been in my stash for years. I think I'll use it instead of the ones originally chosen to border it. Also on the wall is this embroidery piece:

with another favorite background fabric. It seems to need some space so maybe larger borders work

I finished the yellow quilt started last month. 
I love a finish, do you? I love the last binding stitch tidying up the edges, I love the last bead... 
a skirt hanger is the perfect size hanger for this one at 23" X 20" 

I made it for the yellow scrap challenge in March, focusing on small scraps and different blocks

I think yellow stimulates me, but I seldom use it like this. I actually love how this came out! 
showing quilting lines before binding


bead choices to use

the little scrap of batik here is one of my all time favorite fabrics and this is what was left. I used bracelet bits, bugle beads seed beads and a wee hand charm to help quilt it.

details make the art I think  


like the binding fabric, a little scrap large enough was found that frames it 

I took a wellness workshop this week online, and while listening to the speaker I painted in my newly made journal
I just used a cheap waterbrush and my kuretake paints and started with squares (like my quilt) of pure color,  another pure color, then mix those to and paint between them. Repeating across the page
gosh I liked how they came out. Then I began doing the same thing but in strips across the page. 
pushing the wet paint with the brush, forming darker lines, blending colors, just feeling the color
something like mountains showed up. I like the harder edges like overlapping photos, I like the blending of colors dividing "scenes" that show up as it dries. 
I love watercolor work
I liked the finished page as it was, but wanted to try a drawing technique watched on youtube
using a pigma pen in black size .06 ......
I just risked it... the tutorial was from "creativecove" and mine aren't like hers but close

while listening to a different speaker I doodled another page in my journal
using my KOI paint and the same water brush (the barrel holds water so you don't need a waterbowl) and I realized the quality of my old KOI pan paint isn't as fine as kuretake. Still satisfying to do, trying mixed colors, next to direct from the pan. Then doodling on top of the dried page with white posca pen
I tired of triangles and merged into hearts then circles. 
Each experiment teaches me more about blended color. 
Easier than fabric art as it's immediate. 
I love that I have lots of journal pages to fill up now and keep supplies at hand for that moment when I think, 
"what if I ....."      
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Thursday, April 3, 2025

I Like Thursday # 445 Easter dresses, sewing, memories of a poodle

 

welcome to this weeks (short) list of likes.... starting with my  parasol finished block. 

not large but very happy, I made three stand alone blocks one year, and this one sits on mantel for spring

still life.... I love fresh fruit, honey crisp apples navel oranges 
I made citrus salad again, and this week made waldorf apple/ walnut/grape salad
the goddess behind is Venus de garlic, and of course part of my cow collection

love cool weather   it returned for a few days here: 

DH looked at the sprigs of grass pushing through the snow and said "Colorado, where you keep the mower and snow blower out most of the year" 

also from the back sliding door... from my blogging perch I can look out and this week watched our yard bunny come onto the porch, climb into and around that turquoise pot, hop out and peer into the back door. 

She sat up, put two tiny furry feet onto the glass, and peered in, then peered closer.... I said Hi honey
she hopped off but we've seen her eating the new grass instead of the apple peels tossed under the tree

Sewing

I love handwork so I am happy to sew back binding by hand on my latest quilt finish, then add beads. 

 I take a free pull out drawer to hold things like this to take down to the TV room, needle/thread/beads and quilt to sew the binding to the back with a sleeve. Detail pics on Saturday's creativity round up post

23" X 20"  no quilt too small to over stitch! 

Fine Dining

we tried this frozen dinner and loved it. It is spicy but not too spicy, and savory and full of flavor. The only bad thing was we each ate what they thought was two servings, we weren't stuffed after. We'll get them again for sure

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On TV  anyone watching Survivor, Amazing Race and American Idol? what do you think? 


 This artist sells home goods with her pretty spring color/designs


Want these after seeing a Korean artist using them this week (from amazon) bamboo watercolor brushes


literal Easter dress

conversation starter this week

as a youngster or teen,  did you get a new dress, hat  or shoes for  Easter?  go to church or have big family gatherings? Do you mark the holiday now in some way?

after all,   we are all antique little girls  under all the adult-ing we do  

It was a big ritual every year in our house. New clothes and shoes for Easter (can't wear those worn out brown school shoes with a pretty dress) and being the youngest/'now only I got a dress, socks that fit usually with a bit of lace, new shiny patent leather shoes, hat, tiny white gloves, and sometimes a child purse. I have one pic of me age 3 dressed like that crying. The mother said I was mad because I had to wait til after church for my candy basket. 

pretty... I'd wear this now

We went to the formal turn of the century Methodist church and had family luncheon after. As I got older, and drove, I went to sunrise services by myself. I LOVE a dress, still, even though colorado is so very casual. I'm the only one in a skirt or dress around here. Can't wear fancy shoes with all my injuries nowadays but fondly remember the kitten heel shoes I had about grade 8 or 9. 

I like these colors and that coat... horizontal stripes? no...

remembering Milo this Easter

Milo here, I like it when Mama plants a squirrel/bunny/chipmunk trap out back! 

Mama: MILO! what are you talking about?

Milo: when you plant veggies, all the critters show up for dinner! 

Mama: well they're disappointed... what veggies do you like? 

Milo: Oh I like a lot of what you like, I like them cooked with butter too. Potatoes, carrots, cabbage, any beans especially lima's... no asparagus though. 

Another of my likes is destruction

It's not like eating but it's so much fun and so satisfying to hear that r i i i i p p p p sound! 

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