Not Afraid of Color

Do you see an abstract house?

As I was cutting a lot of black and white scraps for "remote sewing" in the car, I thought bright solids would look good with them! So out came the little scrap bag of solid color scraps.

The really small ones were like confetti, and my original thought was to sew them together to do hexies.

It was so much fun I just kept sewing odd piece, to odd piece and enjoying the colors. Then probably because we're moving house, I thought it reminded me of an abstract painting of a house.
this is the piece with rough edges lying on blue fabric.

After sewing choose one place to straighten it, I chose the straight dark piece at the bottom
cut away one side... then use that side and the line I first used to cut the second...

only one more side to trim!

After they all went together into a piece about 6 X 9" I thought of how to frame it and embellishments...
Look at the first picture... it's showing you bead soup along the side.
What about a word of encouragement?
A few random gee-gaws... This is exactly why I don't throw things out... you never know when you'll need a little mime face from a broken bracelet, or a random palm tree! With sparkles!
I love words and collect them when I see them on sale... I picked out a quick 11 words, just to see...
I am kind of surprised that I liked working with solid colors. I love how the odd curves went together.
Note the bottom right area....  the angles create doorways. I couldn't have done that by planing... I don't know much about perspective except when something is wrong or works.

Some of this must be intuitive because I force myself not to over think, just enjoy sewing one piece to another. Then I seek meaning in it.

I think your subconscious thoughts  lead the art, what do you think?
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I just love sewing these blocks. They are small but mighty!
I have been sewing in an improvisational way, with my yellow scraps, and trying to get value change, from light almost white to dark almost golden brown. 
 

what do you think of this little flower border? It has a poem

 Drunkard Path blocks are fun, especially mixed with improv. Some of my backgrounds are pieced and some of the inner circles are pieced. Look at the one in the upper right corner here... a mix of leftovers. 

When I added in some NY Beauty blocks, 3 spire, 4 spire and 5 spire, I really got excited. These little 4" blocks take more time than large ones, but you use little scraps and they are so cute!
Here are the 54 blocks on the design wall.

I like it!!!

It is 6 blocks across (finishing at about 28" ) by
9 blocks down (finishing at about 36") with a bottom border it would be 28 X 40.

It is one happy little wall quilt!

By doing one block at a time, I was able to squeeze in sewing this week while the piranha poodle puppy slept.

At first I felt I didn't have enough difference to give me a strong line, but when I turned them into some full circles, some partial circles, some Beauty blocks thrown into the mix, it became lively!




I like the strong vertical line showing up and planned that.Here is a top close up and a bottom close up

Top half

lower half

look how cute those fussy cut star circles are!

And all the different odd shapes blend together into just color.

I am ready to settle on an arrangement and piece the top together now. This has been a fairly quick project, two weeks of grabbing sewing time.

Wonder how I'll quilt it?




I have been considering painting it after piecing it too. A bit of metallic gold paint!

The flower scrap says,"Friends are like flowers each could stand alone on it's own beauty but grouped together each enhances the beauty of the other"

So this is the design wall...
I still have the green one to finish up borders, and put a tree on it to mitigate the center join line. That takes the focus off the strong horizontal join. Plus some leaves along it will break it up further.


As Michelangelo  said, " I am still learning"
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The challenge at RSC this month is to use your greens scraps.
My challenge is to sew at all, what with deck replacement noise and a "peeing-poodle-puppy"  who wants to be with me in the studio.

(three peeing episodes within 24 hours in the studio. And yes he was let outside and peed there too. )
(we'll get thru this)


This week I planned to sew free cut curves into basic leaf curves and actually finish a small work.
Life had other plans. So here's what's been accomplished

... I sewed smaller pieces because that took less concentration. I still had to choose pattern and colors, angles and how to put the mosaic together.


strips seemed  boring
In two sessions I sewed these sections and decided to put them in one piece. See the divide there? I needed to decide how to curve piece it.
well, the join is centered, not great for artwork. Still I like the way some fabrics continued the lines across the join, I liked the leaf shapes coming and going, and I am happy anything got sewn. Scraps were used.

Next, you must decide where to trim it. My thought is to border with a thin strip of set in squares of green. Before that I needed an even edge. That's a choice too when you are doing improv work.
Next up is deciding orientation

What if I make the join a stem??? This is a little brown scrap but I'd make a longer one. Like that...
Or this way?
Or the other way with another addition...
or two
or a poodle is always appropriate!

want to see what I've done with it now??? visit this post