Not Afraid of Color: beading

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

my creative week... challenges met: SAHRR & RSC, a beaded necklace finish and a painting!!!

pattern from the book,Precisely Sew

I'm getting faster at piecing these large blocks (can't remember, they may be 16.5"

and it's fun to dig through the box of scraps for a variety in red prints and solids. I was surprised that with all the fabrics, the star just looks red from a distance!!

On both the red, and green one I chose to repeat two fabrics for the center to be more graphic. The tula pink fabric I chose to use for background (I use plain white for foundation piecing around the feathered star points) is busy but cute. Here are this year's two blocks done for Rainbow scrap challenge

each color is done by piecing 4 blocks, then putting them together to make one big block. For this block I ended up making a cutting template to use for background pieces, and another for the odd triangle shape next to the feathers... not fancy but pre cutting the white pieces makes it all go together better. Same with that elongated triangle around the outside.

Now for the stay at home round robin... the prompt this week is square in a square on point.

as always for me, how to incorporate the prompt into my little sunflower garden theme... hmmm

hmmm a row to showcase a different scale of sunflower. I used a vintage print by Valorie Wells, cut 4" blocks, having no idea if they'd fit with the previous part. I know I can make it work.

let's see, do I want them like this? with one fabric on the inside?

how about this? I knew after piecing the blocks, that they wouldn't fit right into this row

When I cut 4 " blocks of the cute sunflower green print, to cut once on diagonal, then piece around my flower blocks turning them into the S 'n S blocks needed, they were smaller of course! shall I insert cute trellis fabric ? yes! fussy cut of course...

I ended up with this... waiting a bit to sew the already sewn row to the base quilt...

I love how I can keep my theme going while following prompts, and that the prompts and challenge have helped me create a place for my original block! Thank you!

I finished my beaded necklace this week... and it felt great to bead again, turning this

into this: I think the sparkly crystal beads look like diamonds in it!

I have been writing a lot of essays this week, but felt a need Friday morning while having my coffee, to paint something...

I used tombow markers (that are water soluble) and a water brush to make this. I was watching a video by an intuitive person on what being attracted to a color meant... ( soul manna) I was drawn to two, of course, turquoise and silver. Equal attraction, so I head both readings and they really applied to my two sides.

Her reading of silver attraction really fit me, ... don't try to fit in, you shine like the sun

So that's my share for this week...

plus a drawing done for a friend who collects hedgehogs

linking with

Songbird designs

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

slow stitching Sundays

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/monday-musings-6-26-23/

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/

face off

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Making stuff with yarn, paper, fabric and beads!

sitting on the easel on hall table already!

light neutral scraps sewn improv fashion. Raw-edge applique bird, machine quilting, and hand beaded around the edge.... I call it Quiet Tweety-bird and am entering it as my offering into Joy's Table Scraps for this month!

I talked about this last week, that post is ( here...) including the inspiration for the bird

instead of batting I used peltex which is stiff but easily machine quilted. I put binding on the bottom edge so it can sit well on a mantel or easel. Then I used size 8 perle cotton to do a buttonhole stitch by hand, placing a bead on each stitch.

easy peasy. I used a mix bought long ago on sale at Michaels.... glad I had it to use!

I prepared a sleeve to hand stitch to the back of kaleidoscope. A 6.25" strip of brown tree fabric across width of fabric, sewed with wrong sides together to make a tube. Carefully pressed the seam open to the back center of long tube, placed that seam side next to quilt and will whip stitch. Then I'll be able to hang it in the family room sliding the curtain rod through with no seams to catch the rod.

I tried an abstract painting using just a fan brush plus watercolor paints this week... just on an index card as an experiment....here are two colors painted in stripes with fan brush dragged through while paint was wet

what if I tried more colors over them, dipping fan into wet paint and diff direction

how interesting... kind of like Seurat's dots of color, I see how this could be used... then as I am wont to do, I went one or two steps too far, painting more lines!

still fun...

I also tried this with gold ink, VERY cool, and used it as background to design a composition for a friend's beloved cat, who left us too soon... I'll keep that pic for later

Next up some knitting... a finish! Just in time for the heat to break and snow to start, all at the same time. My cowl was knitted in the round with moss stitch, new to me.