it's NOVEMBER!
I tell you in case you live in Middle Colorado and wonder why it's nearly 80 tomorrow....
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| almost bare not quite! |
I spent the week out of commission with pain, and trying to take the Zen Stitch workshops. They are offered for 24 hours only so I just got an intro to them but still enjoyable.
That said, not a lot of sewing or painting going on.
I came to terms with the cutest poodle costing $4000 which is too much for us, but may remain friends with the breeder and our husbands as they like to play card games too.
Anyway, I hand stitched on the Halloween Hexie quilt when I sewed,
and contacted my friend Pat to see if she sent me these scraps
sadly no. I like the prints but don't know what to do with them. First even up the sizes. I like the prints a lot so I'd like to make something with these, even if it's an abstract.
Did you give them to me? let me know what you planned for them please.
I think they'd be fun to make into a table runner.... yes? Suggestions?
I also would like to use these fall scraps to make a table runner, they are cute!!
I turned them into this lovely for fall
perfect to hand on this post
so if you have ideas on those tri rec bits above, please share with me.
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
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| 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
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| 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
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