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









1 comment:

The Joyful Quilter said...

You did good work, LeeAnna. Halloween and Fall fabric fun along with a bit of art! Thanks for sharing the BROWN you spotted around your neighborhood.