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Creativity this week charm pack quilt, Improv sewing in red and 3 little paintings from Not Afraid of Color

Very little as satisfying as watching paint dry.... welcome to this week's creativity round-up

I'll start with the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge, Red:

box of RED scraps

I eased into this color by pulling the really little scraps and sewing them together, watching the pattern show up, watching the colors blend,

sewing one little section to another til I had two major sections to fit together into this...

about 18" X 13"

my improv work lately looks like houses or cityscapes to me

Little doggie peeking out an upstairs window

I start by arranging ...

added by LA Paylor 6 days, 5 hours ago. under painting , rsc

Creatively this week.... a quilt finish, two paintings (& two works in progress) from Not Afraid of Color

welcome to this week's round up of creativity starting with one of my design wall works in progress. The color of April's scrap challenge is teal, and I include turquoise and aqua in for myself.

(This just in, the color of April now is red, oy vey!)

I love this background fabric, it's been in my stash for years. I think I'll use it instead of the ones originally chosen to border it. Also on the wall is this embroidery piece:

with another favorite background fabric. It seems to need some space so maybe larger borders ...

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

my creative week from Not Afraid of Color

it's about 18.5" X 23" at this point, with about 20 blocks

this creativity post is brought to you by the color yellow (thank you Rainbow scrap challenge)

and the magic of little scraps of fabric!

I even have three paintings using yellow, and my latest purchase to show you so let's get this started!

With the purchase!

three bundles of hand dyed cherrywood fabrics, (Hobbyhouseneedleworks had them for a good price)

while I was getting more fabric to pet, I also got a beading kit (palette pin) two yummy hand dyed embroidery floss colors from Weeks ...

added by LA Paylor 1 month ago. under painting , pile o'scraps , rsc

My creative week spent sewing on my round robin quilt from Not Afraid of Color

I spent my creative time this week in my wee studio, adding to my Stay at home Round Robin quilt

the prompt was Kite blocks... I started with a search online to see them, and for my whimsical house piece decided to make them look like kites, and used blue sky scraps (Thanks, RSC!) plus scrap triangles from feedsack fabrics

I did them improvisationally. cut a rectangle from a blue scrap, then cut that in half on an angle both directions. Now to add a triangle that meets on the tips after sewing

did that on all four corners ...

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

my creative week -- SAHRR, PQ and RSC (acronyms week) from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's creativity round-up! I have four projects to share this week so on with the show!

Starting with project quilting's prompt, "inspired by your birthstone color" For me it's

"emerald"

I started with collecting inspiration photos online, and printing them onto one sheet of paper.

see the images printed out there on the table?

if I had more than one week for this (and didn't start 4 days in! lol) I might have done the emerald city, or a palm frond. I cut out 3 paper hearts, taped them together, and cut the ...

added by LA Paylor 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under project quilting , rsc , sahrr

my creative week including embroidery, sewing piecework, and a painting from Not Afraid of Color

still trying to live a creative life, and this is a mention of this week's work... glad you're here!

the pic above is my latest finished embroidery. I learned to make tassel flowers, very wild and 3-d

more about the embroidery in a minute, but first my stay at home round robin nest row was slice into a block and insert a new fabric. It was a hard pain week so I took it easy on the creative front. I did a sliced insert in an X thinking it would look like a trellis... well....

it's too ...

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

Creativity this week... two challenges met and knitting socks from Not Afraid of Color

Project Quilting prompt for this week was "ombre" which is a shift from one color to the another.

I am knitting socks with an ombre affect at the moment. Purple to turquoise

two of my favorite colors! I like to put my own spin on a prompt so I thought I'd graduate from purple to turquoise with fabric PRINTS instead of solids. I wanted to make something I could use too, so an older pattern for a "keeper" fit the need

Now I have a non Christmas colored keeper to hold sock projects in the family room

I arranged ...

added by LA Paylor 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under project quilting , rsc , sahrr

my creative week stitching, knitting, hand embroidery framed with quilting from Not Afraid of Color

I'm between prompts on SAHRR and PQ, so I sorted and cleaned up the studio (when it's small that's very important to do) The above image is the hand embroidery I finished a week ago, up on the design wall

the color of the month at the rainbow scrap challenge is pink, (love...! )

the pink scrap bin held some tiny triangles which I freely stitched higgeldy piggeldy into the strip on the right

and I sorted through my collection of 2" squares for the rest of the border

for ones in lighter tones of green/pink/blue ...

added by LA Paylor 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under . embroidery , rsc

My creative week in threads from Not Afraid of Color

This is the 12th block in this pattern for this year's RSC quilt to be.

I chose a warm color, a healing color is pink, and this time more intense shades of pink.

I don't know if it's "raspberry" or just saturated pinks originally I thought maroon or cranberry.

I do like to play with all variations of a color... here are three warm colors together to compare

intense pink, bright pink, and red. Note I've tried to keep a dotted theme this year for the hexies. I love focusing on a color each month and ...

added by LA Paylor 4 months ago. under moravian stars , rsc

a little bit of creativity and gift ideas for artists, and one for quilters from Not Afraid of Color

the feathered star block for RSC this year. I chose Gold as my 11th color block

this is gold next to yellow to see the difference. I love these bold blocks and they should make a great 12 block quilt. Borders will be another matter

the block is paper pieced and an 8 inch segment is difficult to maneuver under the machine and put together each block finishes at 16". I leave most paper on for stability til all are joined. Soon.

Then the picking out of all those little papers.

as I mad each feather, I cut away fabric ...

added by LA Paylor 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under feathered star blocks , rsc

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 5 months, 1 week ago. under painting , rsc

creative time this week embroidery finished, quilting and painting from Not Afraid of Color

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 ...

added by LA Paylor 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under embroidery , 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 5 months, 3 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 6 months ago. under painting , rsc

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 7 months ago. under embroidery , painting , rsc

Orange feathered star and a wee painting from Not Afraid of Color

This is a big achievement for me, with so little strength still. I just took it in small steps

1. look thru scraps for possible bits the right size

2. print the pattern

3. lay the pieces in the right sides on the pattern to see how the colors go together

4. cut with scissors the small white triangles to go around the orange scraps

5. Sew all the bits to the paper pattern, in short moments throughout the week

6. cut out the tula pink background triangles and arrange on design wall... in two days

7 sew the backgrounds ...

added by LA Paylor 7 months, 3 weeks ago. under rsc

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 8 months 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 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

living a creative life sewing by hand, painting on paper, using a fountain pen from Not Afraid of Color

I was able to finish this month's EPP project in Aqua. I love this color, hard to define and I like all shades of blue green. This is fabric scrap basted to a paper shape, then edges sewn by hand.

Close up of all the different fabrics

I used two dotted fabrics for hexies, this time, scrap wasn't large enough for all hexies this time

(the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is aqua)

you can see the blue shade is different from aqua

I started using my Fude nib fountain pen this wee,

the butterfly ...

added by LA Paylor 9 months, 1 week ago. under exploring creativity , 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 9 months, 2 weeks ago. under painting , rsc

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