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Saturday, September 12, 2026

creative daily life fabrics for the new hexi spiral

 

doing what's necessary here these days, but... 

it's Saturday and I chose and cut out fabrics for the purple hexi spiral this month. Color of the month is purple!


and tried to start setting up my new machine. 

had a momentary scare when it wouldn't come on, but it was the new surge protector not working. I need to figure out a go around, but it works when I plugged it into my power cord so.... 

it's so pretty and roomier! Now if I could sleep, I might have the brain power to figure out how to use it!


look at this beaded turkey at Eureka beads tutorials




hmmm....

linking with

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Saturday, August 29, 2026

still creative (yellow hexie spiral)

 


I'm going through a rough time can't talk about it, but I've never quite been this lonely and hopeless. 

That said it's been hard to be creative with so much on my plate I didn't ask for... still

when you have a creative spirit, it wants to be expressed and brings a sort of normalcy to the unpredictability of change. 

even in photography... seeing a wonderful light effect and capturing the moment



the color of the month at RSC is one of my favorites. I have loved yellow in all it's tones since high school.... I took yellow flowered sheets away to college and my granny's yellow scrap quilt. 

one of my little prep bowls

I am finally on my way to another yellow spiral hexie block

my yellow scrap bin is stuffed with color and pattern, and it felt therapeutic to handle them all






I have been sewing my GGG blocks together, 11 blocks wide, and 5 strips together so that maybe I can quilt them without injury to myself, then put those sections together  after quilting. With borders and another row added to the last of 3 sections, it might cover my toesies in bed. 

It is glorious so far

now to choose some quilting design
help!
in 3 large sections so far

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Saturday, August 1, 2026

how I spent my creative week

 

I worked on projects in progress this week. But, then I looked ahead to Saturday's post on RSC but a color had not been announced. 

oy vey, it's generally too late to post your color work on the day it's announced and we only have 4 post days so I tried to reason out the probability and decided chances are it will be yellow or purple. 

so I worked on both! 

this was one of last year's yellow scrap quilts and I like it so much I hung in on my studio door 

I start by organizing the scrap bin by shape and size. This time I took out squares of certain sizes to put in my growing squares collection boxes. Then the tiniest scraps are put by the machine to jump start my month. 

not knowing, I chose to go thru this process with both purple bin, and yellow bins 

I did start the border choices for last week's piece, and thought I might surround this yellow block with purples but stopped here since I like the way this looks now

It's satisfying to use little bits just as color but to also see them turning into something... a tote? a table topper? book cover? 

speaking of books I ordered this but haven't looked through it yet

as I mentioned earlier I also worked with purples... the tiniest scraps became another cutie needlebook

pieced then machine quilted with metallic turquoise thread, the inside

batting scraps become the needle beds

then some embroidery stitches by hand or machine


and beads put on with the hand stitched buttonhole to close the edges


squee! my friend Cindy sent me a box of beads in the Swa---eeeetist little boxes. SO thoughtful, and what a fine mix of turquoise sparklers to use. PLUS 
I did the hand work while chatting with her so it was a double gift! 

(I also sewed all the buttons back to my pink shirt while chatting) 

french knots with size 8 perle cotton in aqua

it's been so very hot, which drains me of energy and causes sleep disturbances, so I am just glad to be doing much of anything but necessities like cooking, laundry, dogwalking

how's about a walk Mama?

and the calendar monthly flip reminds me of time passing by


 



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Saturday, July 18, 2026

Creatively speaking, this week...

 

it's been so hot, it's hard to do much of anything...

oh there are people who say, but that's in the sun.... 
well, we don't really have shade here so that's how hot it is on our walks. We drag thru morning walks, and I'm in too much spinal pain by the evenings now to go much more than a mile after dark. 

Almost too hot to sew as my creativity nook is over the hot garage. Did I tell you we moved here to evade heat? We had about 3 years in the beginning with nicer colder weather but now it's hot all year. 

on to what we were able to do... no beading, no painting, no embroidery but I was obsessed with...

making GGG blocks with my scraps, and enjoyed sorting through my scrap bins seeing them in this new way. I am focusing on Aqua/turquoise, purple, lime, fuchia colors 
there are about 140 blocks done
don't get too excited, when they are sewn together this center would be about 40" X 56" so I continued
as I sorted, to prep more blocks

then..., all the bits I cut off were improv sewn into 


groups and strips, then the groups sewn together. I LOVE it. Not sure what it will become or how large
but very few little scraps went back in the color bins

it's so satisfying to see color/pattern next to another... growing faster than my cucumbers
it's similar to my big quilt in percentage of colors too


my snoopervisor has been pleased with my progress, 
or at least with my happiness in these colors... all he knows is this is where we go every day for him to nap

I realized I need to do a mundane but necessary task of sewing on a replacement button 
this lovely shirt has been mine for approx 40 years.... still beautiful on and brilliant color. Made by an independent clothing designer (in Florida ) called Ooo La La

so the heat continues to increase my inflammation and pain, our AC can't fight the temps, promised relief in form of 80's this week, are now dashed in favor of near 100's. A creative person still needs to make things AM I Right? 


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Saturday, July 4, 2026

creativity this week the watercolor quilt grows, choices made, a new block

 

For sewing this week, I played with scraps in a slightly different way... the start to a quilt above is from an online design I saw... goody goody gumdrops

I decided to mainly use my aqua/turquoise scraps  for this, with lavendar, lime, fuchia mixed in

After all the time I spent on my watercolor quilt, I thought, I should gather some other sized squares from the color bins, to organize some scraps by size and shape not colors

My watercolor scraps are cut to 2" square, so I moved up in size to 2.5"   3"  and 3.5"  squares of all colors in one location. I used the 2.5" box (in front here) to pick out ones to use in the new block. 

I think the pattern was meant to use 5" precuts but I'm just pulling 2.5" pieces large enough to do the outside bits, and one 2.5" to use in the centers, from my recent collection of all colors

Surprisingly it has been fun! 
I hope I won't miss them all separated by colors, but it is just some squares and the color bins remain

12 blocks so far...and a mix of blue/green colors for rainbow scrap challenge July color

I sewed tiny bits together to make another needle book, and stitched the layers together with quick lines on sewing machine.. Now I plan to do hand stitching  before turning it into a needle book

probably chain stitch, fly stitch, colonial knots, or rows of straight stitch... then trim, bind, fold to hold felt needle storage

I chose these fabrics to do my hexie spiral this month.... 

yum, this is one of my fave colors., blue green light to dark

I dithered over inserting a strip between the larger border fabrics on my watercolor quilt. White? 
then after sewing all those tiny squares, adding another row around of them, decided to sew the larger watercolory fabrics right onto the center

In the quilting stage, I'll couch over a thicker cording in white or navy, maybe lime green to create a visual stop from center to border, more subtle than a tiny strip


It makes me happy to see on my design wall when I enter the room, but how to quilt it??? 

my snoopervisor sleeping on the job!

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Saturday, June 27, 2026

creativity this week... Spring watercolor quilt

 

whew it will be good to see the back of this week!  Rainbow scrap challenge color is:

pastels

pretty much I worked on putting those tiny 2" squares together, each finishing at around 1 1/2" really making my quilt smaller 

19" X 22" ish. 

too small so I got these out to put on another whole row around this center...


then sew the pieced rows to the center matching edges... and my idea is to border with the larger pieces and prints

see some chosen, on the outside edge on the design wall

maybe some floral appliques after all that is done


close up... colors blend from block to block to create a scene


ridiculously hot and sunny here, our pup is sick, life is a challenge right now




when I'm stressed, I sort, so I looked thru my scrap bins and pulled out pieces that could be cut into 3" squares, 3  1/2" squares and 2 1/2" squares and plan to keep a little box of mixed color same shapes and sized squares for use later. 

it's calming to sort, don't you think? handling fabric is better than nothing
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