Julie B Booth

It's the third Thursday of the month...time for a little Roy (G Biv!). This month's color is ORANGE.

I had to hit the photo archives this month (I've been a bit busy with book stuff!) and I decided that I must like ORANGE since it shows up a lot in my fabric designs!

blue glue gel and salt resist

Wheat flour resist

Veggie printing: Carrots and radishes

Wood Sorrel #2

Dragon Spirit detail.

Orange tile

You can play along with my colorful cohort, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen, and I by posting up to five ORANGE photos and leaving a comment. We will link to your blog post for a wonderful, colorful blog hop! I'll be updating this post through Saturday, February 21 midnight (eastern USA time).

Come on...Join in the fun!

Jennifer has gotten around once again...NYC and CT ORANGES. Love the Rothkos and the parking garage optical illusion.

Fiona at Paper Ponderings offers some Thursday Thoughts about reading and dreaming and an ORANGE sunset that will warm all those in the Northern Hemisphere.

Sharmon Davidson has some inspiring ORANGES!

Linda Stokes has an array of scrumptious, textural ORANGES...such a warming color!

Elfi has a unique selection of ORANGES love the lizard and the tree drawing!

Mary Ann at Blue Sky Dreaming has ORANGES that really sing! Love the stitched piece.

Maya at Take Diversion has some exotic ORANGES.

Lisa at arzigogolare has inspired me with her joyful ORANGES!

Eric at Cerulean has some very artistic ORANGES.

Margaret at Charlton Stitcher has playful ORANGES!

Sue and Elizabeth of  PGFiber2Art have a great selection of ORANGES! Check them out!

Roxanne Lasky of Ideas in Cloth has an eclectic assortment of ORANGE.

Here are the dates for Searching for ROY G BIV Round #4 -2015 (the colors of the rainbow and beyond!):
March 19: Yellow
April 16: Green
May 21: Blue
June 18: Indigo
July 16: Violet
August 20: Brown
September 17: Metallic Gold
October 15: Gray
November 19: Pink
December17: Blogger's Choice

Can it possibly be that time of the month again! Yes! It's time for the next installment of Searching for Roy G Biv (the colors of the rainbow). On Thursday, February 19th, it will be time to post the color ORANGE. To play, post up to five photos and leave a comment on my or Jennifer's blog and we'll link to your blog for a colorful blog hop.

Hope to see lots of ORANGE on Thursday!

Ferry Building farmers' market

Outside my window there's plenty of white and brown but not much in the ORANGE department so this month's search for ORANGE had me looking through the photo archives...and reminiscing...

San Francisco ORANGE

Ferry Building farmers' market

Stained glass window in the Basilica next to Mission Dolores (of Vertigo fame)

Savannah ORANGE

Fencing found on one of my Savannah nature walks.

Leaves found on one of my Savannah nature walks.

Virginia Beach ORANGE

My friend, Laura, showing off her gelatin prints.

Vienna, VA ORANGE

Vienna farmers' market

Some sari treasures from The Bead Goes On trunk show at Star's Beads.

Orange circle fabric I designed for Lynn Krawczyk as part of The Printed Fabric Bee.

Where did you find ORANGE this month?

If you'd like to join in this month's Search  for Roy G Biv (the colors of the rainbow), just post up to five ORANGE photos on your blog and comment here or on Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blog. We will link to your photos. You can continue to post comments here until midnight, Saturday, February 22. Can't wait to see your ORANGE!

Here's Joan's ORANGE.  An amazing sky!



Maya at Million Little Stitches has some delicious ORANGE!
Fiona at Paper Ponderings has some thoughts on books and bees and a lovely ORANGE poppy.
Jennifer has some humorous ORANGE.
Charlton Stitcher found ORANGE hiding in plain site!
Lisa at Arzigogolare has an ORANGE tea party going on complete with some yummy-looking recipes!
Bridgette at Contemplating the Moon has lots of artistic ORANGE.
Sharmon has some gorgeous natural ORANGE.
Yarngoddess found lots of ORANGE around her home.
Susan at Flying Dog Studio discovered some favorite ORANGE treasures full of memories.
Mary Ann at Blue Sky Dreaming has some lovely artistic ORANGE.
Cindi at The Organic Manic has some eclectic ORANGE.
I couldn't help but see that peek of ORANGE in Roberta's pencil/pen case. She's off to Tucson...a place I remember as full of ORANGE.
Jill at Recycled Daze is having an ORANGE crush!
Francoise at Creatilfun has some ORANGE surprises (especially that first photo!).

Rainbow-colored Indian embroidery with some little shisha mirrors. I plan to include attaching small objects with stitchery as part of my upcoming class, Patching, Stitching, Weaving: Creating Healing Cloth

Time is a funny thing...it slows down...it speeds up...

I'm still slogging through book edits. It appears that I like to write....too much! I'm hoping that enough words are now cut, though I don't believe so. I'd just hate to cut more projects! And this was supposed to be done by Dec 15th (ha!)!

We are speedily moving through February, despite the recent snow storm. We totaled out at about 14". Miraculously, us Northern Virginians seem to getting the knack for cleaning up snow. It's also a great time to reconnect with the neighbors.

What I can't believe is that we are up for another round of Searching for Roy G Biv (the hunt for the colors of the rainbow). The third Thursday of the month  (February 20) is upon us. This month's color is ORANGE. I hope that you'll join in on the fun. Here's the info about posting photos and a calendar for the rest of the year.

Now back to book edits, class prep, designing new class samples and Printed Fabric Bee fabrics!

Orange Challenge Fabric

I'm happy to report that the search for orange continues...

Lisa at arzigoglare has a luscious sampling of Florentine oranges. She was inspired to sit down at her studio table and create some absolutely wonderful orange (and terracotta and copper) colored paper houses. Enjoy this rich selection of oranges.

Charlton Stitcher has also posted a second day of orange delights. She focused on this year's challenge of finding tints and shades of the color of the month. What an imaginative selection you'll find in her post.

I'm also happy to report that the names went into the hat and Charlton Stitcher is the winner of this month's challenge fabric...Congratulations! Please send me an email with you mailing address and the fabric will be heading your way. (threadborn@gmail.com).

Thanks to all of you who participated this month and for passing the word along to others. Next month it's yellow...I'm already on the search...

Carrots from Golden Harvest in Kittery, Maine.

It's been a crazy month so I had to go to the archives for my ORANGE.

Heirloom gourds from the local farm stand.

Red peppers from the Farmer's Market outside of the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

Pumpkins also from the Farmer's Market, San Francisco.

I seem to have a thing about produce!

Just a few more photos for a bit of variety.

Nasturtium, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Andy Warhol from the Modern Art Museum in San Francisco.

Yardage I designed and printed for Caos on F Gallery.

Looking forward to seeing your ORANGE this month. Leave me a comment, and I will link to your photos. If you don't have a blog, website or Flickr page, send me an email and I'll post your photos here. Just a reminder that I will continue to update this post through Saturday midnight (or add a supplement in another post).


Here is the ORANGE Challenge Fabric. It fits with this month's produce theme. The background texture is made from a lentil block and the blue shapes are carved grapefruit rind. I'll be drawing names on Sunday morning for the lucky winner. Remember, you have to play in order to be eligible for the drawing.

For more ORANGE, check out my cohort, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blog.

Take a look at the variety of ORANGES over at Charlton Stitcher. Love that stash of fabrics!.

Be sure to stop by Kim Henkel's blog, Letting in the Light  for some very artful ORANGES.

Maya at Million Little Stitches has some wild ORANGE.  

Lisa at arzigogolare is experimenting with copper wire (close enough to ORANGE for me!). The freesias have made it into a beautiful bouquet of ORANGES  and pinks. 

Deb at salt-bush-stitch was out and about for her ORANGES.


Be sure to visit Susan's blog to see all the marvelous close-up ORANGES.

A splash of Spring...


 ...then back to Winter tomorrow...

Don't forget we're Searching for Roy tomorrow...ORANGE to be exact.

See you then.

Just a reminder that we are a week away from another Search for Roy G Biv (the rainbow). This month's color is ORANGE. Hope you will join in the fun!

You'll find the rules here.

I've been alternating between being chained to my laptop and spending innumerable hours in the studio. Hooray! The handouts for my 2-day workshop, A Story in the Making are complete! The samples are in various stages of completion...which is actually not a bad thing as it means that I can demonstrate techniques on them.

Here are some in process:





A note to myself for the future...try to avoid teaching two new workshops two weekends in a row!

My trip to Savannah in a week and a half is looking very inviting, at the moment....

Remember this?

Remember my saying that I thought I liked it better than this?


I've decided to redo the hamsa piece for F.I.N.E.

The first thing I did was to enlarge it. It will now fill out most of the 12" square canvas.


I also decided that I would create three separate fabrics, back them each with a fusible, cut out the needed shapes and fuse them together. I want this piece to be bolder than my original concept.

Today, I worked on the orange fabric that will be used for the hamsa hand.

After a wash of color with Pebeo Setacolor Transparent Fabric Paint, I applied Pebeo Opaque Fabric Paint with a piece of scrunched plastic wrap.


I decided that I wanted to create a hot glue block with circular designs that would fit within the hand.


At first, I made one print with the hot glue block on the orange fabric. I used light orange Opaque paint. It was barely noticeable and very boring.


 I then decided to print the fabric with the block multiple times, changing the orientation of the block as well as printing it in two different shades of orange.

This is how it came out.

Orange fabric detail

Definitely much more interesting!

Tomorrow, I work on the other fabrics.

Winners of the Roy G Biv fabrics

My husband pulled these winners of the Searching for Roy G Biv Challenge fabrics out of his JMU baseball cap...

Congratulations!

Lisa, please comment here to let me know whether you would like the red cats piece or the oranges piece.

Kathy you will get whichever piece Lisa doesn' t pick.

Yesterday, I started work on samples for some magazine articles I'll be proposing. I had some fun with brown paper and cardboard. Slathered on the Mod Podge to hold it all together.


This morning I took a look and they are ready for printing and rubbings.

I have some other sample ideas in the works. Want to get these proposals off soon.

I also hope to get over to Home Depot today to finally get a look at some of the possibilities in the gardening department. I especially want to check out anything that looks like a grid or could be made into a grid. I'd like some grids to go with my weeds!

Here's another orange entry for Roy. This one is from Kathy S., my friend and colleague at Star's Beads, Ltd.

So far these are the eligible players for free fabric:

 Jennifer Q 

Fiona at Paper Ponderings

Lisa at arzigogolare.

Joan S.

Kathy S.

There's still time...up until midnight tonight...that's Saturday, June 23 Eastern time (USA).

Tomorrow is the name drawing from my husband's baseball cap.

The first name pulled will have a choice between these two fabrics.



The second name pulled will receive the remaining fabric.

Thanks for playing...now off to mess up my clean studio!