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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 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 ...

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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. 

Happy Colors!

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

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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. 

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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

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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 ...

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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 tableI need to find a brighter green too. 

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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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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This week I was distracted by physical pain, but I managed to compete this wee pin cushion! 

There are videos of people teaching versions but none gave me a pattern... I found one on line

SunCatcherStudio.com

at first I cut it out large since it was drawn to scale. Too big for a pin cushion but great for a box... so then I cut it out as shown. 

I used pink felt scraps since the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pink! yea! It looks wonky in these photos but it's a precious little sturdy ...

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this week I made the yellow feathered star block for rainbow scrap challenge... used more yellow scraps. When it was finished I noted the center yellows looked too similar so I got these out

copper paint, tested on a yellow scrap, perfect! Dab paint on with sea sponge

then went over with gold paint on the test scrap... maybe... I like stenciling a lot

these blocks are paper pieced (foundation) from this book

 so stenciling was easy with the paper backing. Iron when dry makes it permanent. I also shaded that one with brown prisma color pencil

the four colors ...

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I have two main projects for rainbow scrap challenge this year... the EPP project shown above is one of them. I'll be doing one each in scraps from that month's color, this month it's yellow.

got the idea from https://thecraftycreek.com/2023/07/16/owl-and-hare-hollow-hqal-2/.

I really enjoy english paper piecing...
 

four epp circles done... haven't decided what color to put them on yet

here are three yellow scrap pieces I'm working on at the same time... the design wall is sunny! 

I'll be sharing them as they grow larger and more complex ...

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