Creatively speaking this week.... challenge to use light green/blue and moving into Halloween!

 

I enjoy working in colors of the season so I pulled out the bag of halloween fabric scraps and played!

it's always messy in the beginning, and I love seeing scraps laid out in piles according to size... 

Now what? I think

I get to know the prints, think of what I can make, I start sewing littles to littles

I get lost in the "scrap puzzle" as I think of it

looking so closely at it is one thing, but it will be viewed from more of a distance so I try to get some components up on the design wall. 

A lot of my halloween scraps are dark, so how to introduce some color? Some orange/lime/gold/ 

Improve geese are always good, color geese and dark halloween prints around them let them float

there are always blocks in the wings... and I think a few pinwheels or 4 patches would look good. Where did I put that candy block I wanted to try? 

 

I finished up this block for RSC each month, in light green to go with the light blue. 

I am not inspired nor jazzed by these colors but the hexie spiral in light pale blues might be more fun, hope to share that next week. 

Along the way I made a free form hexie scrap piece with pale color plus garden prints, I think I will applique this onto a landscape fabric for a tote or apron front...

It hasn't been pressed yet, and I can't seem to leave it alone, what if I add another blue one here???

The ones that look orange here are actually golden yellows, the pale green batiks seem to wash away

anyway it was fun to make, and I never applique hexie forms so that will be different

I like this pattern but it's hard to find the actual pattern to print out online...

and around the neighborhood, pale or light blue and greens are as uninspiring to me in real life as in the scrap challenge to use them in fabric

I chose this view for the smoky way the mountains look this week, and the smoky pale blue of the sky

I've moved on to wanting Autumn colors... 

the rocks have a lot of colors if you look closely but each color is very pale.... I guess I like a more saturated color palette most of the time. 

But.... it's all good