Creatively Speaking, this week I made stuff....

 

it's been a week,  and I always try to live a creative life. Sometimes things get done/ finished, and sometimes they don't. I had two paper workshops start this week, the image above is from the journaling one. 

we were to just doodle and watch paint appear on paper. This prompt was swirls. I dragged a paint filled brush over an index card, playing with color and it was a mess! So I cut out a heart, and laid it on a clean card and wrote Life Is Messy.  

I  like the cut away on another card and could put a message in the white part. 

another prompt was to just draw skinny lines... so I used an older watercolor in aquas and voila! 

it became an ocean scene! sorry the photos are so pale, click on them to see better

some simple skinny lines become birds and grasses

markers over watercolor

I worked to finish my rainbow scrap challenge month of august using the color aqua

I put borders on my table runner, made from improv blocks in aqua scraps, layered and pin basted it...

I do like curved safety pins and this tool

You rest the point in it's grooves to clasp it without distortion

I wanted the lime/yellow fabric to be a thick piping but my little old Gem won't move needle positions much less has a piping or zipper foot, so I just made do with a half inch finished accent of it. 

I am using mylar threads, rayon and cotton hand dye on it but the threads are breaking too often, when I go over where a seam joins on the top. I suspect the issue is not only this machine is so basic, but the horizontal thread holder twists the threads coming off the spool. These need a vertical holder. 

I need a new machine and quick! I miss my Bernina....

the little machine caused me not to be able to finish the quilt this week, constantly rethreading it.

I did a lot of machine quilting  but also hand work even if it doesn't show well in photos, I see it

running stitch with hand dye thread, long stitch star, French Knots 

cross stitches, straight stitch with little straight stitch flowers and some more Fr. Knots... love this!

Fly stitches, crosses, lazy daisy flowers with Fr. knots, running stitch with knots periodically 

Fun little palm tree fabric, some big metallic thread quilted X's and hand stitched star with knots and running stitches

simple hand stitching adds a lot I think

I saw some aqua on my walks this week around the neighborhood

in the community garden

in the community garden there were pots painted to look like mushrooms

in turquoise and aqua

and.... even a whole house in aqua!

I love this new line of fabric for Christmas called north pole social club

https://fabricshack.com/collections/north-pole-social-club

interesting method to put pearls along edge of fabric

https://youtube.com/shorts/kgtF9XYgVWk?si=qjcgJ4jH3zpwt3UZ

hopefully I can paint, finish my table runner, and sock this week.... see you later gators

linking with

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

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

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

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https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

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