Welcome to this week's creativity round-up. It was full of painting/art workshop videos, hexie sewing, and Fall scrap love. Above is one close up of my quilt as you go Halloween quilt for this year, I had lots of fun looking through my collection for motifs to use
I'm still hand sewing the finished hexie quiltlets together but nearly done.
I used 6 different purples as backing for the little pieces. You cut the backing large enough that after you quilt the hexie, you fold the backing up and over to the front, letting you see the backing fabric in the finished work... so of course I like a variety. you could make them all the same for a different look
backing fabrics
almost done! So much fun to be able to look at some of my collection all at once!!
I have a bag of fall prints scraps too, and sorted it this week, that's how I start, by making piles of shapes
future improv flying geese!
so I took the smallest scraps and sewed them into one piece of fabric and made another needle book to gift
sew sew sew.... little bit to little bit and I love the finish! Of course it's not finished til the last stitch is added in, this time with a variegated #5 thread and french knots
and blanket stitch
No scrap too small for me to use!
so many art videos available this week through Jessica Swift's workshop. I loved all the art talk, color use, lines, shapes.... that's a doodle from a lesson above
a lesson in creating shapes to inspire future work, using different supplies
another one... I like the faux handwriting, the brown marker in honor of RSC color this month of brown
you can look at your drawings to inspire future use of that motif in your works
Love how this mandala shape came out altho my hands were a bit shaky when writing the words.
tombow water markers for outside ring then brush water on to drag color out
I make note of monthly colors on our walk, no lack of brown in Colorado... this fence knot caught my eye
Dying to see you again!! LOL welcome to this week's list of likes
starting with some more neighborhood Halloween displays
how about this purple to blue sparkly BIG spider... a la Harry Potter!
the "web" goes over the whole front yard!
there is a decoration contest in another nearby neighborhood, and I have a lot of pics but I'll save some for next week. Meanwhile I saw some interesting things on our walks
ahem, a bench eaten by the earth, or for really short people? for dogs? for tired spiders?
a suburban scene, "killed by yardwork"
I love the look of these plants, fuzzy brown (for the rainbow scrap challenge focus color this month)
click on that pic to see more texture, wouldn't that be a challenge to paint?
hard to resist these
warm from the oven, oatmeal, pecan, choco chip cookies.... (recipe from Gasparilla cookbook)
clever doggie costume, altho it might give a dog nightmares!
such a cute kitty, or "paw-fessor McGonagle"
Quilting love, sewing those finished hexies together this week
finished pics on Saturday's creativity round up post
painting love, Jessica Swift free workshop all week
my shadow holding a leaf on the ground... just for fun...
I really learned a lot about creating a more defined waist hides a tummy, here
I love our tree in the sun, the highlights colors shadows, texture of the brown trunk
Conversation starter this week:
do you still rake fallen leaves or just use a blower to clear them?
(personally I HATE the sound of a leaf blower, so I rake and dh bags them)
actually I find it soothing to rake leaves, order out of chaos, clean grass left behind, repetitive movements, sounds of crisp leaves.
this vista was stunning on our morning walk, yellow, green, pumpkin color, pink and maroon all on one tree........ I need to paint this fallen twig/leaves. What a graceful shape, right?
my quilt of cole's leaf obsession (c)LAPaylor
Please visit these folk to read their list of likes this week.... and answer the conversation starter in comments
Above is a close up of the smaller Halloween scrap quilt. I did machine binding of a batik, adding a zig zag with gold rayon thread. I quilted it best I could with my teeny little machine, and mostly the walking foot.
I took most of this out of the other one that got finished.... the busiest bits.... and it's the size of a big placemat. I think I'll either use it for my lap when eating in front of the TV, or as a cover for my bedsize table.
I love the mix of prints. Here is a picture of both on the design wall
the one on the left originally included most of that on the right.... but I like this pared down version of rows. I started with bits and pieces, like freeform geese, 4patches, odd triangles, just sewing to see what came up.... then when I got down to the business of order.... it turned into rows. Some closeups
I've hoarded that row of kids for years.... see the crystals I ironed in place at the end? They are scattered along the length of the quilt. It's quilted with some metallics, and some rayons, some coton threads. Rows sometimes added improv fashion and curvy
I had fun with thin inserts, waving ghosties, crystals around Trick or Treat at the top sparkle. Metallic blue threads lend movement. All fun to do
I keep my fusible crystals in bead holders, and pick them up with those cool bent tweezers! I love a tool that is whimsical. I made a stamped bag to hold all the crystals in
stamping on fabric is fun
hanging by the back door
I am sewing the basted brown hexies together at night... the focus color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is brown scraps....
my friend Cindy said they look like a cup of cocoa with cream swirled in! I like them!
a few are sewn together, I tend to try new ways each time to sew them, always by hand with a whip- stitch. I liked the previous colors in pastels, so I went ahead and cut out lighter browns (tans) to make another spiral of those to go with the previous pastels
a sewing funny for Halloween
(personally kids wouldn't be thread worthy for me, LOL. I'd give them a quarter before I'd give up a seam ripper! Another funny
don't be a dinosaur
this guy is wearing brown as he works the cemetery...
view of a neighbor's display... the lantern keeper is wearing brown
Made me giggle this week
Fat Quarter girls....
til next time, I'll be arranging the QAYG Halloween hexies and sewing the brown ones together
