Not Afraid of Color: October 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

I Like Thursday # 476 colors, candy, donkeys and poodles

welcome to this week's list of likes, short as I am having a lot of physical pain, forgive me, Hopefully I'll return to normal soon,,,,

love the light on this tree, found in the nature preserve near us

lovely morning sun on red leaves

red peppers still growing in the community gardens

duck shape from random junk on the sidewalks...

duck Frankenstein display on neighbor's house

close up of my mantel display

poodles chasing a skeleton

we visited 3 grown mini poodles plus 2 puppies this weekend, that display was at their house

we want an older dog but they all pulled at my heartstrings, Here's the puppie's Mom held by her hooman

the pup is another "blue" and is 14 weeks, my back hurt bending to interact with them all, and as it turned out he costs $4000.00 which is a lot for us in this damn economy, so..... for several reasons it may not work for us

My husband said I'm trying to make it work by ignoring the issues, so I have to think some more.

The weather went from hot to deep freeze over night but is headed back to 80's by Sunday, in NOV in CO.

yep, short video, respect the strength of older women

almost finished with this large quilt as you go hexi.... my body broke down again

taking the making zen stitch workshop this week, but can't sit or concentrate because of the back/headaches.

pretty moonscape seen on our way home from an evening walk

more donkeys with long shadow legs

my hand is shading the lens

artsy sun drenched shot

prompt:

will you hand out candy this year? what kind? Will you wear a costume or something funny like cat ears or tiara or face mask?

I Used to dress up but we no longer hand out candy. The kids here come til after10 pm dragging full pillowcases. I kept some tiara's and cat ears but not this year.

the kids have already done trunk or treat at the school, they have so much candy already

Time changes this weekend

another red/orange tree.... enjoy it now as the wind has been mighty!

Please visit these folk to read their list of likes this week.... and answer the conversation starter in comments

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

creatively speaking this week, painting and sewing

Welcome to this week's creativity round-up. It was full of painting/art workshop videos, hexie sewing, and Fall scrap love. Above is one close up of my quilt as you go Halloween quilt for this year, I had lots of fun looking through my collection for motifs to use

I'm still hand sewing the finished hexie quiltlets together but nearly done.

I used 6 different purples as backing for the little pieces. You cut the backing large enough that after you quilt the hexie, you fold the backing up and over to the front, letting you see the backing fabric in the finished work... so of course I like a variety. you could make them all the same for a different look

backing fabrics

almost done! So much fun to be able to look at some of my collection all at once!!

I have a bag of fall prints scraps too, and sorted it this week, that's how I start, by making piles of shapes

future improv flying geese!

so I took the smallest scraps and sewed them into one piece of fabric and made another needle book to gift

sew sew sew.... little bit to little bit and I love the finish! Of course it's not finished til the last stitch is added in, this time with a variegated #5 thread and french knots

and blanket stitch

No scrap too small for me to use!

so many art videos available this week through Jessica Swift's workshop. I loved all the art talk, color use, lines, shapes.... that's a doodle from a lesson above

a lesson in creating shapes to inspire future work, using different supplies

another one... I like the faux handwriting, the brown marker in honor of RSC color this month of brown

you can look at your drawings to inspire future use of that motif in your works

Love how this mandala shape came out altho my hands were a bit shaky when writing the words.

tombow water markers for outside ring then brush water on to drag color out

I make note of monthly colors on our walk, no lack of brown in Colorado... this fence knot caught my eye

from our walks, a heart in a fence

brown is pretty mixed with blue and green

brown trunk

I'm doing the Zen stitch free online workshop starting soon link is Making Zen Online Retreat

https://mellysews.com/9-things-sewists-do-that-no-one-understands/

so funny, one husband's questions for his sewist wife

linking with

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patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

slow stitching Sundays

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design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

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http://www.sewcando.com/

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

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finished or not

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friday face off

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

I Like Thursday # 474 leaves, skellies, paintings, and a plate of cookies

Dying to see you again!! LOL welcome to this week's list of likes

starting with some more neighborhood Halloween displays

how about this purple to blue sparkly BIG spider... a la Harry Potter!

the "web" goes over the whole front yard!

there is a decoration contest in another nearby neighborhood, and I have a lot of pics but I'll save some for next week. Meanwhile I saw some interesting things on our walks

ahem, a bench eaten by the earth, or for really short people? for dogs? for tired spiders?

a suburban scene, "killed by yardwork"

I love the look of these plants, fuzzy brown (for the rainbow scrap challenge focus color this month)

click on that pic to see more texture, wouldn't that be a challenge to paint?

hard to resist these

warm from the oven, oatmeal, pecan, choco chip cookies.... (recipe from Gasparilla cookbook)

clever doggie costume, altho it might give a dog nightmares!

such a cute kitty, or "paw-fessor McGonagle"

Quilting love, sewing those finished hexies together this week

finished pics on Saturday's creativity round up post

painting love, Jessica Swift free workshop all week

my shadow holding a leaf on the ground... just for fun...

I really learned a lot about creating a more defined waist hides a tummy, here

I love our tree in the sun, the highlights colors shadows, texture of the brown trunk

Conversation starter this week:

do you still rake fallen leaves or just use a blower to clear them?

(personally I HATE the sound of a leaf blower, so I rake and dh bags them)

actually I find it soothing to rake leaves, order out of chaos, clean grass left behind, repetitive movements, sounds of crisp leaves.

this vista was stunning on our morning walk, yellow, green, pumpkin color, pink and maroon all on one tree........ I need to paint this fallen twig/leaves. What a graceful shape, right?