Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolor. 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, June 20, 2026

creativity this week... watching paint dry and fabric grow

 

Every day is an opportunity to create, right?  Right now I am drawing/painting each morning and when my puppy was being funny one morning I painted him

I am using the ICAD prompts this time, but not on individual index cards, in my watercolor notebook... same size image but neatly in a spiral bound format. 

plus I don't need any pressure right now, so like Joy I am using the prompts as I like, skipping around

some pages using (on the top) "trace" and windsor newton watercolor pens with a stamp, "trace of blue"

on the bottom half, "coastline" or "serene" using inktense pan color, brush, a stamp with the watercolor pens , and scratching the end of a pencil to create phantom lines
I love it! For the next two paintings I used "lucky" and painted a 4 leaf clover with inktense color, then did a pentangle of drawings in each petal with pen
the bottom image is crossroads
as to fabric, I pulled out the basket of random scraps and put together some pieces to
 "start my engine" 
I limited these works to just what was in that accumulated scrap pile of all colors
and 
I do not know what these will become but they were fun to make. Can't ask a lot more from fabric
While listening to my audio book, my mind wandered and I thought how am I using the RSC prompt this month to use pastel color? 

I generally use light/pastel in the one color of the month to set off saturated color...

I thought, what if I focused on green, purple, pink, and yellow?

I got out my box of 2" squares, and found pastels to use for a background  
arranged them into colors
My "plan" was to applique spring flowers over this background...

so I started putting them up on the wall... it will change since I move squares each time I enter the studio, LOL

I see tulips in pink and purples, yellow pansies or little white flowers dotted over it. 
then I thought about neighborhood photos I took, and how to include them? 
I printed 4 of them onto fabric (in my home printer) 
but since I have so many little squares left, maybe they will become a second art work. I love the photos (click on an image to enlarge) 
I could see them surrounded with squares from my "watercolor" box... there are always more scraps aren't there? 
for this one, I will be adding a sort of border, then stitching them together this week, I hope... then applique some pastel flowers, some thread work, maybe a bead or two?