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creativity a bit of sewing, a bit of paint from Not Afraid of Color

Even when going through grief, one wants to make art. I am slowly working on my Moravian star in fabric

the little star units are lying on my portable design surface. (cardboard / batting/ felt ) with a sand paper bottom. This tutorial said to make 12 star units of 5 petals. See the little diamonds on the bottom right.

moving anticlockwise up here are the 5 sewn together.

moving anticlockwise to the left top the five are sewn into a cupped star shape

and the bottom left is two sewn together (wrong sides tog) with a third to be sewn in ...

added by LA Paylor 2 weeks, 1 day ago. under painting

DIY, Eat, Sleep, Repeat from The Quilt Quine

I had a busy week supervising a DIY quilter whose first ever quilt was an ambitious foundation pieced elephant. She did really well but did not quite finish after 3 days so she may have to come back to finish the job. She left me with a family heirloom hexagon quilt to complete with a dense feather design.

Each night I went home, got changed, had leftover spagbol, took Nessie for a walk in the park then painted the rest of my sitting room green. It was a tricky job because bumpy wallpaper makes it difficult to cut in neatly ...

added by thequiltquine 3 weeks, 2 days ago. under customer quilts , diy , home , home-improvement , interior-design , linzi's life , painting (Comments)

Using creative time to feel normal... quilting, painting, memories of a granny from Not Afraid of Color

I finished the golden circle this week, and here's a photo of it with the other warm colors. I took this to show the difference between the yellow and gold.

In doing the rsc this year, I picked my last 4 colors to use, since I wanted 12 blocks for my quilt. I love quilt making for the pattern, color and lines.

The more the merrier says I, so I adore scrap quilts.

Being a painter, I'm used to mixing colors, seeing what colors come from different proportions. I think our eyes blend color which is why pointillism ...

added by LA Paylor 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

creativity this week watching paint dry, then printing in on fabric to quilt, and book binding from Not Afraid of Color

I finished the gray rainbow scrap block for this week, and here it is with a few others. I now have 10 big blocks....

I have learned by doing these, that choosing to do one big block a month in one colorway, gives a big impact. In the beginning I might have mixed all the colors in each block thinking that might look scrappy. This way you see the color, then the patterns from different fabrics making it scrappy.

I also love the tula pink background fabric with these...

Happy Colors!

tell her to make another run of this fabric ...

added by LA Paylor 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under painting , rsc , table scraps

creativity this week feathered star block and lessons with paint from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's creativity round-up! Mostly I've been learning, drawing, painting with some sewing as well! On with the show.... I'll start with painting, go on to sewing so you can find what you like best here.

I took a lesson in how to use my gouache paints. They are quite a different creature from watercolors.

It's good to learn new things. They are opaque, and because of that, thicker than my usual watercolors. They are water soluble though and can be mixed on the palette before using, and cleaned with water.

My brushes were ...

added by LA Paylor 2 months ago. under painting , rsc

watching paint dry this week.... stretching my creativity from Not Afraid of Color

For my quilt making update, I did baste the three layers of this quilt (my Portal) together. I safety pin the layers, backing is a lovely fall print, batting is warm and natural, the top was made a bit ago. It's the back breaking task I dislike the most in quilting. It's ready to machine quilt now! yea! but....

... my beloved Bernina 1630 sewing machine began failing just as this was ready to go. I have replaced the motherboard in it, twice, at Hinkletown Sewing in PA. They charge a couple hundred, the other stores charge thousands. I ...

added by LA Paylor 2 months, 1 week ago. under exploring creativity , painting

creativity this week: painting and feathered stars in lime green from Not Afraid of Color

Little by little a bird builds her nest, and little by little I regain some strength.

For sewing this week I made the 9th feathered star, this time in my neutral... lime green. The color of the month for the next four months at RSC is not color actually, so I chose my own for the rest of this year.

turns out I don't have a lot of scraps in lime but look at some I used...

I love that bit of words , the daisies, a Christmas angel, spirals, and that bit of repeated lime has sparkles on it ...

added by LA Paylor 3 months ago. under painting , sewing

creativity this week.... gone color maverick! from Not Afraid of Color

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 ...

added by LA Paylor 3 months, 1 week ago. under embroidery , painting , rsc

Creativity this week, Painting of a bird, hand embroidery on an orange flower from Not Afraid of Color

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 ...

added by LA Paylor 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under embroidery , painting

a bit of creativity Orange, pink, green from Not Afraid of Color

I dragged myself to the studio this week, in between sleeps, and finishted the EPP basted block in the color this month, Orange,

It's bright and pretty and done, It was a monumental task in my weakened condition! Yea!

While in there I found scraps that could be cut into raw edge petals...

they are just laying on the table

then I put them on a green scrap and need to tweak them to look more uneven.

I need to find a brighter green too.

My goal is to sew it down with lots embroidery and texture. Lines of ...

added by LA Paylor 4 months, 1 week ago. under painting , rsc

creativity this week from Not Afraid of Color

I'm trying a new location to blog, we'll see how it works with photos. This is the Aqua/turquoise feathered star block with close up

and for Joy's table scraps this week, butterfly in aqua scraps

here it is made, with some hand stitching threads....no beads

Obviously I made my own pattern, it's so wonky!

(never sew when you are in the pain I am)

with hand stitching beads, sequins. Notice the little black beads on her "hair" for eyes?

I did hand embroidery before the beads went on. French knots, boxes, cross stitch, loops ...

added by LA Paylor 5 months ago. under painting , rsc

watching paint dry and stitching small scraps of fabric... creativity this week from Not Afraid of Color

Let's start with aqua/turquoise scraps... the color of the month at RSC.

I love this color range, and got out my box of scraps, organized them to size and shape, and used them.

I sewed some free form geese, used abstract piecing, sewed some squares and rectangles. Then put them together int the table topper above.

in this pic of the flimsy before it was quilted,you see the one I did in blues last month compared to this one

It's 13" X 21" and fits on my bedside table. I quilted it in metallic threads. Mylar ...

added by LA Paylor 5 months, 3 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

creativity this week colors bold and soft, on fabric and paper from Not Afraid of Color

For my round up of creative work this week, I'll start with sewing ... this is my feather star block for rainbow scrap challenge ( a different color scraps each month) The 16" block is finished now, here are the 6 finished stars so far, pinned to the design wall, waiting for 6 more colors

I dithered over blues for this background and finally chose this turquoise ish blue but have to wait til I can use a rotary cutter to set it

thank you to those who gave me feedback, you were all right... hugs!

the big this this week ...

added by LA Paylor 5 months, 4 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

living the creative life sewing the blues, painting on index cards, knitting with scraps, and more from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's creativity round up... some of this some of that... The work above is my hand sewing for TV time and I added in some solid fabric scraps to the charm pack. I love the colors!

living the creative life... so many decisions... I considered the background in sparkling blue for this blue garden of roses piece. It's just pinned to the wall to think about... what do you think of it?

I chose scraps for my feathered star RSC project in blues... got the foundation piecing accomplished despite the ongoing physical limitations... My wall ...

added by LA Paylor 6 months ago. under knitting , painting , rsc

creating with paint, yarn, and fabric... some blues, some EPP, some blossoms, and knitting again from Not Afraid of Color

This week, I completed the EPP circle for my blue rainbow scrap challenge block. I hand cut the patterns, hand baste them to the paper, hand sew them together after arranging the patterns.

a close up to see the pretty fabric scraps used....

I looked at the improv blue blossoms and thought, do something... just sew some green scraps around them...

sew I did, making them into 4 sections... before the sections were sewn to each other

this method uses a rotary cutter... but I can't press down a cutter because of my nerve pinched spine so

I had ...

added by LA Paylor 6 months, 1 week ago. under knitting , painting , rsc

doing what we can to celebrate color... sewing bits of fabric together, watching paint dry, interpreting a theme from Not Afraid of Color

The block above came from this book

on the sewing front, I needed to see color sewn to color, repeat. I got out the blue scraps that are exceptionally small and started sewing...

the log cabin logs finish at 1/8th inch

I thought, I love foundation piecing, why not just do some really small (2") blocks, mindless right? I didn't count on the intensity of dealing with such small seam allowances and strips of fabric 1/2" wide. I completed two blocks and moved on.

sewing to paper is a good idea for me now, can't use ...

added by LA Paylor 6 months, 2 weeks ago. under icad , painting , rsc

my creative week, painting faces, hand sewing, and one tiny quilted finish from Not Afraid of Color

I've been intrigued with faces for years, so I try to interpret them in lots of ways. I saw a female face online this week,

and just loved her... my paints, simple waterbrush, and flip notebook were by the computer so I painted a version. I wanted to not draw hard lines first, no sketch, and to provide all features with shadows only

I liked her, her lace dress, her features but something was off. Just like in real life, hair color makes a difference. I went back and added darker brown paint, which suits her skin tone...

Imagine ...

added by LA Paylor 6 months, 3 weeks ago. under painting , rsc , table scraps

living a creative life making a creative home from Not Afraid of Color

I learned this week, that some times you fly with creativity and sometimes you need to compensate for injury yet find ways to still express yourself.

It was that kind of week for me. Physical limitations meant I couldn't use a rotary cutter, couldn't sew with machine much, had trouble painting as sitting at the table hurt.

We have a mama bird sitting on eggs in the gutter just below Milo's perch. When I joined him in window watching this week, I looked down into two little black eyes blinking up at me, begging me to stop ...

added by LA Paylor 7 months ago. under painting , rsc

being creative with fabric and paint... and cake from Not Afraid of Color

It's been a difficult week... but even so there are a few things I was able to do creatively so I'll share them here today.

The first is a sketchbook painting, a self portrait of sorts.

If I was Queen, you've all heard that phrase. I tried to paint someone sticking out their tongue in disgust.

ever feel like that?

I had a very painful week, making sewing difficult so I sort of planned my feathered star hoping next week I can sew at the machine

I sewed on a border or two on this

I sewed ...

added by LA Paylor 7 months, 1 week ago. under painting , rsc

My creaative week in pink and paint from Not Afraid of Color

For rainbow scrap challenge this week, using pink fabric scraps, I made a block with english paper piecing. This means for my non quilt making friends, that you cut the exact shape you want, from paper, then sew the fabric around the shape and later remove the paper.

I did that then laid out the pieces on my portable design board, the way they'll be sewn together into a whole.

so I can carry it around and try out background fabrics to applique it to... I cut the pieces a bit big when cutting the kit to carry downstairs ...

added by LA Paylor 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

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