Showing posts with label rsc hexie spiral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rsc hexie spiral. Show all posts

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!

Saturday, April 25, 2026

watching paint dry, and watching fabric growing

 

welcome to this week's creativity round-up starting with evening handwork on hexie spiral in pink

being sewn together one hexie at a time! 


Mostly I am working my (slow) way through sketchbook revival lessons and getting to know my art supplies again by using them


First the fabric work this week, usually pink scraps for RSC

used tiny triangles to do improv geese to be added to last week's work
used tiny scraps to build a book cover (it will be quilted then folded in half) 
lots of blocks made for the "parts dep't" 

and sewing this way calms me 

now the parade of sketchbook work... sometimes I paint the lesson on watercolor paper, and glue it into the sketchbook. I had limited bandwidth internally to do all the lessons started, but hope to eventually catch up before the season is over. On with the show

play with stamps and inks






what a fun technique starting with rolling a paint loaded brush on watercolor paper

crinkle squeeze watercolor paper


ink the fold lines then use tombow markers (water soluble) to color in, I also used pan inks to paint in

then for fun inked over some shapes

oh how I like this artists work.... (D. Gregory) who paints, writes over it to create a journal of memories
I still need to write about being 18 and spending countless hours at the beach to heal and find myself
I'll write over the blue area. This will be one of my best lessons, as it will allow words to join the party
pink tulips  for pink month

my snoopervisor drying off after rain/snow flurry freak storm

again he reminds me our choices in direction shape our lives

sent from my friend Sonja in Hawaii.... we share life from a distance

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Saturday, September 27, 2025

creatively speaking this week, light blue hexie spirals and halloween quilts X 2

 

welcome to this week's creativity round up. I want to be beading, painting and writing but my body won't cooperate. Luckily I could still sew, so, on with the show... 

Starting with the 10th Hexi spiral block this year, this time in light pale blues


I kind of like it! Surprised myself with that! I finished hand sewing the hexies while watching the premier of this season's Amazing Race (and sewed two in the middle wrong, having to rip out and resew

last time DH said he liked them turned a different way (I was too dazzled by all the spiraling to notice)

so here the block is turned 

Remember this Halloween 2025 start on the design wall?
not sewn together yet
I wondered how the scraps would look as small hexies in a row...

Ooooo I like them!
which led me to big hexies to quilt-as-you-go

batting and hexie cut same size, backing larger for each
and fussy cutting into my Halloween print stash

24 times should make a good sized wall quilt. Look at that fancy witch, the owl, that sassy cat! 

one finished block, sew 24 together and done! 

two finished quilted bound blocks  and 22 to go, then arrange and sew together, done! 

see the backing is larger to pull to the front and finish after quilting?
We put up Halloween decorations this week, and I began hanging halloween quilts from previous years... 

I'll show others later... glad to see the end of pale blue and green as focus colors at RSC this month
a "nature" shot seen on my walk this week, of pale green

with two gratuitous flamingos and a solar up light  
I like these fall grasses in Colorado. More of a pale yellowish green 
that's it for this week y'all