Friday Catch Up - 17 05 24

Doodlewash Art Challenge [Watercolours]

Friday Face Off

1. Fruit, 2.Cup & Saucer

3.Bucket, 4.Red

4.Red, 5.Food Mixer

6.Water

7. Pen [two kinds - animal enclosure and writing implements]

8. Avocet, 9.Sunshine

10. Cardboard Box

11.Misty

12.Cathedral [Durham, UK]

13.Vase

Flower of the Day

My plant app says this is a Portland Rose but it isn't, it's a Camellia. I've had quite a few flowers on the shrub this year, the most ever, but unfortunately they don't stay on long and the blooms end up on the floor in a heap especially if it rains.

Hexies - English Paper Piecing

I've made quite a collection of hexies [293] so now I'm going to start sewing them together. I found a nice box to keep them in.

Monday Window

Looking through a hotel window at Saltburn

Pull up a Seat - Wallington

Thursday Doors - I found a couple more photos from Asia

The first was on a boat in Ha Long Bay, the second was a hotel room door.

Thursday TreeLove

A lovely big tree seen in Lumpini Park, Bangkok

I've actually been away to Cyprus and I will share a few photos with you over the coming weeks.

Enjoy your weekend.

 

Sewing and Sketchbook Revival

I made a sleeping bag for a teddy or doll

 

I've been making lots of hexagons ready for a English Paper Piecing project

Sketchbook Revival 

Day 2 with Koosje Koene - From blob to colourful drawing

Day 2 with Mike Lowery - Doodle blobs

Day 3 with Helen Wells - Exploring abstract shapes and colour

Day 4 with Irene Ruby - Colourful pencil portraits

I think I need more practice with this, very enjoyable but all wrong

Table Mats and Paintings

Doodlewash Challenge

Skateboard and Koala

Apple

I made a composition with seven of the prompts

Cup Project WIP - Artwork

Sewing and Quilting

Table Runner and Placemats

I've been making some table mats and a runner out of my own fabric designs which I had printed at Spoonflower. I wanted to incorporate some hand stitched English Paper Piecing [EPP] into it too. The eight mats are all different.

On the first mat I stitched the stripes and the English Paper piecing quilting by hand. I used the machine for the curved join and the end of the EPP. I was really disappointed with it, I thought it was way too busy. The fabrics are busy on their own but altogether....!

I didn't use as many stripes on the next mat but I had already cut them out so I wanted to use them.

No stripes.

The EPP was difficult to deal with so I started just putting it in the middle.

The EPP was very difficult to stitch together by hand because the fabric is quite thick and very stiff. I should have washed it before I started but didn't and I don't know if it would have made any difference.

The runner in sections below - I'd got really fed up with stitching the EPP so I only did odd ones.

The fabrics used, there are seven. I did have another which I was going to use for binding but I didn't have enough and I didn't like it much so I've not bound them at all. These are the original swatches but I used a fat quarter of each fabric for 8 plate mats and table runner. They are colour coordinated, I used the same colours on each fabric design.

This swatch looks a bit washed out and thinner compared to what I used, this fabric would have been easier to sew by hand too.

And it's Paint Party Friday