I love to Quilt . . .

Colorado Beauty Square

Squint your eyes and you can see a pinwheel in the center of the block.

I had purchased a block of fat quarters last year and couldn't decide what to do with them.  

I saw a quilt with this pattern.

ehh. 

I have pulled out my stitches about 6 times in this one square.  Yeah I am NOT a perfectionist but I had to at least put the square together right. 

I'm happy I did.  

Now that I did one complete square, I am hoping there will be less mistakes. 

Here's a look!

It looks like newspaper but it is not.  Its fabric with lots of love words on it!  I will post more squares as I put them together!

Lots. Of. Fun.

Love to Paint

Flowers in a Vase

Acrylics

All Art Work For Sale

2016

Sew

Of course - 

I Love to Quilt!

Crazy Quilt

I've done two crazy quilts before - maybe you have seen them posted on here.  But I have never embellished one and have collected books for years in an effort to persuade myself to do this. 

Last week at my local quilt shop where my sewing circle meets, the owner told me they were forming a group to put together crazy quilts.  Ears perked up!

"The kits are FREE", she said.

Huh?

The kits are free, but you must add the embellishments.  We will meet once a month and at the end of a year you will have enough squares (13 x 13) to put together a good size quilt. 

Well  . . . . really . . . .  seriously . . . .

Of course I jumped on this.  

So the way it works is every month you recieve a kit with enough fabrics of similar colors and a piece of muslin to use as a foundation for placing the fabics in a scrappy, crazy pattern of your choice.  Your square must be 13 x 13. 

Then you can add hand embellishments ONLY in the colors that are in the fabric pieces. 

Any type embellishments.  Any mixture of embellishments. 

You recieve points for your progress.  The one with the most points at the end of the 12 months chooses the stack of squares in the color (one color only) of her choice!  F.U.N. 

Here is my first block.  I decided to only embellish with embroidery. 

So. Much. Fun!

Water Colors and Ink

Young Girl

Watercolors and Ink

9 x 12

2016

Graphite Pencil Drawing

Self Portrait

Working the prompts in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Not for Sale
Private Collection

Spring Flower with Froggie

Watercolors and Ink

on Multimedia Paper

5 x 7

2016

Spring Flower with Froggie

Two Flowers in a Vase

Watercolors on Multimedia Paper

11 x 14

2016

Two Flowers in a Vase

Black Eye Susan

Watercolors on Multimedia Paper

11 x 14

2016

Black Eye Susan

Pop Art

Pop Art 

Acrylics

2 1/2 x 3 1/2

Multimedia Paper

2016

Sew Easy!

Hand made Bag that I am carrying my

pastel pencils in.  It can be used to carry anything.

I used a pre quilted place mat.  Fold in in thirds.  Sew the each side and down the middle. 

I also sewed a ribbon on the outside flap (top) and the front on the middle in order to tie the case to close

Finally look when closed

Color me Happy!  Sew Easy!

Whoa - So Many Pumpkins!

Seen (scene) on a street in Rice Village, Houston, TX

Very very cool!

Self Portrait - Graphite Pencil

Doing the workbook for "Drawing On 

The Right Side of the Brain"

Very first exercise is to look at yourself in front of a mirror and draw your own self portrait in 30 minutes.  

So here's mine.  

I can hardly wait to complete this workbook and then do another self portrait for comparison purposes!  That should be interesting!

Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Water Based

Witch's Boot

Tombow Water Based Brush Pens and Ink 

On multimedia paper

9 x 11

The Background paper is white. 

Other People's Words . . .

Love this journal cover . . . .

FLOW Diary . ..

FLOW is a magazine that I subscribe to and is printed in the UK.  

I think that is why they call this a 'diary' and we here in the States call it a 'calendar'. 

I just LOVE this diary/calendar but it is so much more!

Inside pages 

and the back cover has a pocket full of FLOW goodies!

Sew Easy

Quick and Easy Sewing Project

Step #1

Start with a Pocket Pot Holder

Pretty Button

Needle and Thread 

Step #2

My Pot Holder Had a hook on the tab for purposes of hanging.  Find the right size button that will fit through a hook like this - no worries if you do not have one.  I will tell you what to do if you do not at the end of this project. Sew that chosen button in place. 

Step #3

Because my gray button was so plain and boring for me I decided to add some color with a smaller button that I sewed directly on top of the gray one using the same sewing holes.

Step 4

Check to make sure it actually works!  Yay, it does!

Step #5 

Put your chosen objects in the pocket!  Quick and Easy.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A POTHOLDER WITH A HOOK - no problem.  Just find a pretty ribbon and sew the top of it where the tab (and hook) would be.  Wrap that piece of ribbon (once sewn on) around the button to close your pocket!  

Enjoy!

Addicted to Reading

Wise Words to Share

Addicted to Reading!

THE BIG MAGIC

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Anyone out there who is interested in living a successful and happy creative lifestyle - this book is a MUST READ! 

Excellent Read for all of us creative souls!

I AM AN ARTIST. . . .

I love this sign, and although I believe in it, I must admit I do a lot of work for free.  Why you ask?  Because it is in my heart to do things that make other people smile.  So I do portraits on occassion for my friends. 

oh well.