Not Afraid of Color: embroidery

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Saturday, November 2, 2024

creative time this week embroidery finished, quilting and painting

8" X 10"

Here we are again, a round-up of some of my art work for the week. I am a creative sort, and love to write, paint, draw, quilt, embroider and bead.

I also love to crochet and found a project that uses up little bits of leftover yarn so I hope to explore that next week.

I got out beads, sequins and actual rocks with holed drilled in them, and embellished this flower. Bugle beads that are copper iridescent went around the center and stem, gutterman flower sequins were added with seed beads. I used seed beads to form little flowers above the ones on the left, added seed beads along the imaginary growing weed at the top.

I enjoyed every bit of this tiny piece from the applique, to hand stitching, french knots, beads and rocks at the bottom. I chose to sew the backing on around three sides leaving the bottom open. turned it put in two layers of stiff peltex then turned the bottom edges in and did a ladder stitch to close the opening

since it's not over til you're done... and I thought I might want a bit more... some embroidery floss grass over the join at the bottom, tall and short stitches, some with a flower sequin on it would really finish it in style! For now it's sitting on the easel in the front hall.

It was started on a whim, to just sew something.

I started the RSC block for November, the EPP circle, in my color choice of the month. Gold.

The RSC leader Angela left the last months of the year our choice to finish our projects. I wanted 12 blocks so my quilt wouldn't be square so this month for me is gold. For the golden leaves I see right now! But I didn't realize gold would be kind of hard with fabric.

Is is gold? yellow? orange? tan? I did okay making the coffin shape choices but the hexies that go around is hard so I pulled some choices with the theme of dots. All my blocks have dots on the outside hexies...

How would I mix gold on the palette of paint? yellow + brown+ orange? Now that I have some, I'd use the quinacridome gold from Danielle smith!

speaking of paintings

Nina Rycroft shared a 4 lesson watercolor workshop for free online. I learned things like making wet on wet free form flowers

making characters, and other wonderful things. This is my version of alice and I like her face so much with so little pencil before, mostly shading

I love how the pink flowers look, just take a brush with pink, smear it onto the wet paper.

I lost control of the paint over the cat's mouth, so had to fill in with some ink, don't love that in these pics but in real life it's cool and DH commented on how 3-d the cat looks in person.

did I mean to do that he asked?

a few sketchbook pages from last month:

gesture drawing where you don't lift your pen for the sketch

linking to

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

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

Midweek makers wednesdays

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

Saturday, September 14, 2024

creativity this week.... gone color maverick!

There are no more colors of the month at RSC for the year, just "dark" and I have 8 colored blocks...

so I chose my own color, my neutral, "LIME GREEN"

the back after basting and hand sewing unit

I would rather have 12 colors, instead of 4 months to put the quilt together. Actually finishing a quilt isn't always my plan, I like to just look at color each month, use it, learn from it. So I plan to use these as my next 3 months focus colors

fuchsia

Gold

Gray

and went through my scraps to find great choices to enjoy. It feels great to know where I"m headed so I can relax and just do EPP when I'm ready

I used these to help me settle on colors

close up of some of the lime patterns

loved the tiny gate scrap, barely big enough but was

Daisies, dragon flies, and the cutest gradient color lime circle fabric!

The colors so far. Now how to set them... on a white or cream background? this orientation or turned to have hexies touching on side?

8 X 11" the embroidery stitching is done . I loved leaving some of the top right corner fabric unstitched as the fabric is so cool on it's own. I danced from image to image, trying out stitches with different threads. No plans. Just moving along. Now I want to sew it to a backing (no batting) on three sides, then insert a stiff board and close the last side.

then add in the beads for sparkle and the fun of doing it

I love the variegated perle cotton thread making French knots

DH who is a more concrete thinker asked what they were supposed to be. I didn't answer because they are just pattern and color. He said, pollen? bugs? I pointed to splatter on my paintings and said, that effect. Random color dots.

a variation of fly stitch with a flower on top. The stars were for fun, maybe little flying things

Isn't the background fabric cool? Maybe it's a hand dye... there was a small piece left

the purple blends in but I see it... lavender just sprung up next to the flower

So I hope to do my feather star blocks sing in the colors I chose to do in the next few months. They'll be easier to join, just next to each other I think. Traditional but not.

just for fun, I saw a quick tute video on simple drawing of a giraffe and did this on my calendar, where I try little things. He looked better before inking in but I love the quizzical look on his face

I love this little paint tute any one can do easily (by the same teacher)

https://youtube.com/shorts/Tq8TjJQGOkw?si=z8m9FeLB233fXnG7

Meditation painting of sorts

linking with

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

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

Midweek makers wednesdays

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Creativity this week, Painting of a bird, hand embroidery on an orange flower

I am grateful that I found strength enough to paint and sew a bit this week! An improvement if not total recovery!

I signed up for a free online workshop called Art Soul Gathering. There were several teachers, but I wasn't inspired by more than two. I'll show you what I learned...

the quote is not attached yet, just trying out locations

the little bird was taught by Tam LaPorte. Mine isn't like hers exactly but it's like my way. It's so colorful with a cute gesture.

after it was done and dry, I added in a quote found online, printed it in italics, dragged a tombow marker along the torn edges and this is where I think I'll attach it

I like birds, in fact we have another sparrow sleeping on our front porch. It's a young fledgling and getting bigger every night. I'm happy he chooses to sleep here, safe on our front porch rocks.

The hand sewing is small, 8 X 11" and it's purpose is to provide a place for me to do meditative stitching. I ordered 8 spools of variegated threads on sale from Liz Kettle at textile evolution.

I have lots of other pretty threads too. I like variety. It is in progress... I've stitched the petals, stem, two leaves and grasses. I'm trying to decide how to continue.