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creatively speaking this week... spirals, painting challenge, machine choice, Spring Green, COLORS! from Not Afraid of Color

I've been progressing on each project this week. Each step teaches me, each color excites me, art is healing

Above is my rainbow scrap challenge block this year, a hexie spiral. Hand stitched with small scraps from my orange collection. So satisfying when it is done.... here are the colors completed so far

just blocks lying next to each other

The Index Card a Day challenge is on, I'm woefully behind but have now done several. We use the prompts to create something each day....

"Spring" "Cobalt" "Iguana"

Love how the paints blended in the petals

drawn from ...

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

creatively speaking this week: drawing, painting, and sewing from Not Afraid of Color

I have just a few things to share with you this week starting with one of my two rainbow scrap challenge blocks this year. The color focus is on orange scraps this month, and using them.

I chose 4 duos this week, cut them into 2.5" strips, sewed cut sewed cut sewed them into blocks of orange

Orange covers a large spectrum of color, from yellow orange to pink orange (coral)

I tried to blend some as they will not be together in the final quilt top, but mixed in with all the other colors.

Orange makes a quilt ...

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

Odds & Ends from Becca's Crazy Projects

I haven't been sewing as much in the last week or two. I have done some art, like this collection of heart-shaped balloons.

I painted the background on this rock that I painted a heart on more than a year ago.

I took a walk by the pond and saw these turtles stacked up in the sunshine.

And I bought a box of So Fine thread from Superior threads to replace colors I had used up. What have you been up to?

added by Becca 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under 2025 , adventure , art , nature , paint , painted rocks , painting , superior threads , thread

creatively this week.... drawing, learning, progressing on my spring/summer green quilt from Not Afraid of Color

2.5" squares cut to baste to EPP hexies

I have a few things to share but it's been like walking through mud this week....

The color of the month on rainbow scrap challenge is orange. I do like orange and it's energizing. I cut colors to make this month's spiral hexies, and will baste them this weekend I hope.

the orange bits and scraps ready to use

I hand sew at night in front of the TV but in the studio I'm trying to finish the green spring leaves top, and find myself having trouble ...

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

creatively speaking--- watching paint dry, a quilt grows on the design wall, learning from others from Not Afraid of Color

This was a full week of creation, inspiration from color outside, inspiration from a stitch workshop, morning color work in paint, and seeing my green quilt top growing like seedlings outside.

In using scrap fabrics, I am open to possibility. How would one look against the others? I love this gentle block, but each pretty fabric plays off the others... it's one of many components now done, on the wall, waiting for a design to grow.

some detail shots

reminding myself I can insert raw edge applique anywhere

reminding myself I can insert lines anywhere

choosing textures to set ...

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

Creatively speaking, watching paint dry, sewing, and inspiration from Not Afraid of Color

not as much to show for this week, as I made a big push to finish the workshop lessons, if not the art!

I was inspired to paint a hibiscus shared on Cloudia in Hawaii's post last week.... not realistic but kind of impressionistic

I like the color of blue, against the lime leaves

inspiration in bloom.... one of our bushes

Flowers on my mind as I try to paint a border of them around a picture... I'll show when it's done

Starting with paint, paper and ink this week, sewing fiber work next

morning doodles was ...

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

Living a creative life paintings, fabric art photo inspiration from Not Afraid of Color

For this week's creativity round up I start with 2" scraps of fabric... oh it's not done, it's just a start using pieces cut off (then resewn) a larger scrap project. The eye scrap came from a friend in Maryland who used that fabric to sew scrubs for her nurse brother, then she gave me the cuts from that.

years ago now

no piece seems to be too small to throw away when you see potential in the everyday

I was inspired this week by the Eagles I watch, sitting in front of a mighty background

made ...

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

creatively speaking this week.... watching paint dry, and progress on sewing projects from Not Afraid of Color

My focus on art this week (shared with doctor visits) was split between fabric and watching paint dry, along with some planning of my embroidery project.

The color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is green not blue but I'm catching up on scrap colors so I did another hexie spiral in blues...

Green showed up in a small portrait painted in my scrap paper art journal though

using leftover gouache paint

yogurt lid palette holds the paint for days. Look at the lovely mixing of color on the lighter blue/purple bit. You see that on the ...

added by LA Paylor 5 months, 1 week ago. under painting , rsc

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 5 months, 4 weeks 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 6 months 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 6 months, 3 weeks ago. under painting , pile o'scraps , rsc

January 2025 Short List and OMG from Quilt Paint Create

Welcome to 2025! I wish you a year full of creative fun and joy.

In spite of a busy December, the list moved forward. I also started and finished a small crocheted throw. I find I’m going back to hobbies from decades ago and enjoying them in new ways. Good chance you’ll see more variety on the Short List in 2025.

I began the Short List many years ago to create short-term goals and a way to focus. I change things up as my interests change.

Project 1 (Original): Study in Stitches. Something about this project doesn’t ...

added by quiltpaintcreate 9 months, 1 week ago. under art quilt group , artquiltgroup , charity quilts , charityquilts , classes , craftsy , cross stitch , cross stitch kit , embroidery , kits , painting , scrap quilts , scrapquilts , short list , study in stitches , the short list (Comments)

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 10 months 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 10 months, 1 week 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 11 months 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 11 months, 2 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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 12 months 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 1 year 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 1 year ago. under embroidery , painting , rsc

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