creativity this week, drawing painting fabric arts

 

Because of rainbow scrap challenge's color of the month PINK

I pulled out the bag of tiny pink squares, some tiny white squares, and sewed them into little approximately 3" to 4" blocks.  many of them

I pressed them but didn't trim to any one size, just laid them out to kind of match the ones next to it, and began to sew the rows together. I sort of trimmed the rows to 12" X  3-3.5" 

then sewed rows together into this

which I like for the abstract design, 

see as kind of a garden lattice 

like the flower and other random prints

but

it's really quite small, 12 X 15 ish

so what if I added scrappy strips 

hmmmm maybe, then what? 

I wanted to do hexies again, by hand when I am sitting in a chair at night, watching tv, trying to ignore pain

a close up of the 37 prepped hexies in pink

I juggle paper art, fabric love, pain and puppy attention

I am enjoying Sketchbook Revival lessons, but am woefully behind. I sit long as I can, learn, draw, paint, stamp, collage. 

I always start with a quick impression painting of the instructor on the page... here are some of the early lessons.... click on photos to enlarge for detail

quiet eucalyptus leaves

Sumi painting style

dandelion study of brush strokes

painting with palette knife plus acrylic paint

collage of torn handwriting papers and watercolor

writing words as the art itself

I need to find my alphabet stamps to do this one

mostly I'm using my inktense pan paints this time, but also pen, inks, watercolors, acrylic, brush pens

This workshop is free, online, and lovely

I'll end with another piece of wisdom from my puppy, whom we've had for 2 months now

Alfie:   Which way should I go? "  why not choose both directions and go one at a time?!

linking to some or all of these

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

sewing daily challenge

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

http://www.sewcando.com/ 

https://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/inspire-me-monday-335/ 

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

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

friday face off  

https://frenchethereal.net/2026/02/18/share-your-style-487/ 

art on sunday DVArtist 

https://www.pamspartyandpracticaltips.com/2025/09/its-time-to-dare-to-share_0372312595.html