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A New Start for the New Year from Quarter-Inch Capers

I’m happy to say I was able to start my RSC 2026 blocks. I have two or three different blocks in mind, but I made a start on one of them. I have been making 16-patch blocks for a few weeks with the 2.5” scraps Betty gave me.

They are fun and don’t require much thought, and I managed to get 15 of them pieced in pretty short order.

My plan is to use the RSC color of the month to add the star points to these 16-patches. The January color is blue, and I got one ...

added by Carolyn 5 months, 1 week ago. under rsc

creatively speaking this week, needle holder Halloween progress and an elephant from Not Afraid of Color

time for another creativity round-up for this week in October starting with a box of embroidery perle cotton balls. It just makes me happy seeing it all orderly, and all the colors!

And I used it to do hand stitching on this week's brown scrap project (for rainbow scrap challenge)

a needle holder

it all started with sorting through my bin of brown scraps. I got to know what was there by sorting into strips, squares, triangles and odd shaped bits. My migraines and big floaters kept me from doing much this week but here goes!

After sorting I ...

added by LA Paylor 8 months ago. under rsc

creatively speaking, this week, mostly sewing from Not Afraid of Color

I sewed on my big hexie quilt as you go blocks this week, and finished the 24 I need to make a wall quilt with them.

You basically stack backing, batting, hexie then quilt it. Next you fold the backing to the front one side at a time, fold twice to hide raw edges, clip in place, then do the next side, around. Now the block is quilted, edges finished and sewn into place

and now I have 24 finished quilt blocks to hand sew together into a quilt. I love how they came out, love the different backing purples ...

added by LA Paylor 8 months, 1 week ago. under rsc

Creatively speaking this week.... challenge to use light green/blue and moving into Halloween! from Not Afraid of Color

I enjoy working in colors of the season so I pulled out the bag of halloween fabric scraps and played!

it's always messy in the beginning, and I love seeing scraps laid out in piles according to size...

Now what? I think

I get to know the prints, think of what I can make, I start sewing littles to littles

I get lost in the "scrap puzzle" as I think of it

looking so closely at it is one thing, but it will be viewed from more of a distance so I try to get some components up on ...

added by LA Paylor 8 months, 2 weeks ago. under halloween , hexies , rsc

creatively speaking, this week Hexie spirals from Not Afraid of Color

This week, I finished the hexie spiral in light pale green, or pale as I could handle! LOL

The image above shows the blocks made in pale green, regular green, and aqua scraps

does it change how they look when turned? sort of....

or depend on the color they are near?

I now have 9 blocks done

the scrap color this month at RSC is light or pale green and blue.

I'm not generally a pastel gal but I admit to liking this combo to give the whole quilt a light/light element

now for the light blue hexie ...

added by LA Paylor 9 months ago. under rsc

Living a creative life this week.... sewing mostly from Not Afraid of Color

I've focused my creative time this week on finishing one quilt, and on photography.

the changing seasons are exciting especially coming into the possibility of cooler temps.

the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pale green and pale blue.... so on walks I look for those colors....

An artist paints what she sees but what she sees is primarily what she looks for

nature paints the world with all the shades and light to dark providing contrast

I admit I'm drawn to saturated colors so focusing on pale ones is more difficult.

what kind of ...

added by LA Paylor 9 months ago. under rsc

creatively speaking this week, dragonfly blocks a bike and yet another hexie project from Not Afraid of Color

here we are again, to chat about living the creative life, and share a love for color!

This week I've been using AQUA (and all it's tones) scraps to make dragonflies!!

I have them on top of a batik on the design wall but do not know for sure what I want to do with them

I made 3 --12" blocks, and 6 ---- 6" blocks. The pattern is a free one from Moda.

pattern source: MODA

I believe ironing the batks was what caused all my migraines. Oh I prewash all batiks 3 times in hot water, but ...

added by LA Paylor 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under rsc

creatively speaking.... this week was Aqua-full from Not Afraid of Color

The color of the month for Rainbow Scrap challenge is Aqua.... LOVE!! One of my very favorite colors if you include aqua (more pastel) all the way to dark turquoise.

I like contrast mostly so I usually include all values of a color when I make something

Above I showed some of the prepped hexies on their way to this month's block

started with looking through the turquoise scrap bin and choosing these fabrics

7 of one color, and 6 of the rest, all cut about 2.5" to baste around the templates for hand sewing

It's laid ...

added by LA Paylor 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under rsc

creatively speaking, this week Challenge met! The butterfly house from Not Afraid of Color

I finished the Table Scraps challenge for this month, to use purple scraps and interpret the word blossoms (English country garden) I call it the butterfly house!

I went to the Denver Botanical Gardens butterfly house one year and it's magical!

It started like most of my scraps color of the month pieces start, take out the smallest scraps and start sewing them to each other. This time I started with that dragonfly fabric and had 3 scraps. I had no plan.

As I sewed I was thinking floral strips, pretty fabrics, I sewed 3 60 deg triangles together ...

added by LA Paylor 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under rsc , table scraps

creatively speaking, this week Purple Haze from Not Afraid of Color

I spent my studio time this week with these projects plus a few more.

All in the various ranges of purples, blue-purples to red-purples from light to dark.

I do love scraps and am grateful to my friends who sent me scraps to give me choices to use

I did three blocks for my rainbow scrap challenge quilt this week

each strip is 2.5" across width of fabric, and each one is pretty

I thought this was just okay til I noticed the gold hearts!

these might be the 4th block...

I walk a lot, and try to notice ...

added by LA Paylor 11 months ago. under rsc

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 11 months, 3 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 12 months ago. under icad , painting , rsc

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 1 year 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 1 year ago. under painting , rsc

creatively speaking, an owl, a flower, a moon, and some stitching from Not Afraid of Color

for this week's creativity round up I'll start with the spiral hexie blocks

are you tired of seeing the progression of these yet LOL? Each color is a project on it's own. 36 hexies in one colorway, light to dark, hand basted and sewn. I have no idea how I'll fit all the colors together

I focused on mixed media with all it's layers and supplies and variety this week. I also took time each day to sew as I need the fabric time, seeing colors joined with threads.

Note I just cleaned my reading ...

added by LA Paylor 1 year ago. under painting on paper , 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 2 months 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 year, 2 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 1 year, 3 months ago. under painting , pile o'scraps , rsc

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