Take It Further

Here's the finished Take it Further piece. I'm not sure about the buttons and the quilting together, but I like each separately. Thanks to Sharonb http://www.pintangle.com for a year of challenges.

Take It Further

I'm doing the color scheme again in the Take it Further Challenge offered by Sharonb http://www.pintangle.com/ This is a block I designed with Electric Quilt when I was checking out some blocks to use in a Nancy Crow class.
I had 4 blocks left that had too much white in them to fit in the top, so I started slashing them, rearranging them, and joining them again. I like this better and have put borders on it, now to quilt.

Take It Further

Here's my interpretation of October Take it Further Challenge presented by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com It has a shisha in the center and beads rings around it. Most are done in back stitch.

Take It Further

This month I've decided to do a thread experiment for the TIF project featured on Sharonb's blog http://sharonb.wordpress.com Of Course, for the last few months I've changed what I was doing mid-month. Stay tuned to see, if this month I stay on track.

Take It Further

I just finished up 3 postcards all of which were done with strips of fabrics and sheer circles over the strips. The sheers are positioned with straight stitch. Then I did machine embroidered circles.

It took me a while to get started on this month's challenge. I was visiting grandchildren and not near the studio. I'll be stitching Ultrasuede shapes on a wool background. I've been wanting to do hand stitching. The challenge was started by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com/

Take It Further

This is my June piece for Sharonb's Take it Further Challenge http://sharonb.wordpress.com

Thanks to Doreen http://doreeng.blogspot.com for the suggestion that I use the embellisher.

It is on black wool felt with wool roving and yarn embellished done. Then the beads were added by hand.

Take It Further, Class

Here are the fabrics I've chosen to do the June TIF Challenge using the color scheme chosen by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com/ I'm not sure what I'll make.
Here are some of the papers I made for lesson 1/2 of the Mixed Media Journaling Techniques class given by Sueb http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com They are marbled on a base of shaving cream. The top is the first print; the bottom is a print of the paint left after the first one is lifted off. I was using Dyna-a-flow paint.

Here are 2 more papers. It hard to stop, and I did 17 pages before I ran out of room to dry them, and the marbling cream became muddy. To make sure the paper came in good contact with the paint, I gently rubbed the back of the paper when it was on the cream. In marbling whatever touches the paint first is what gets the color. If there is an air pocket, no paint will be there.

Take It Further, Paint

Here is the next step in this month's TIF challenge organized by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com/ It will be a purse. The ribbons are stitched down by machine. The beaded fringe was given to me by a good friend. It was the inspiration.

I'm taking Playing with Paint from Electric Quilt University http://www.QuiltUniversity.com taught by Lyric Kinard. Here are two samples from Lesson 1. The blue one had plastic wrap over it as it dried. The other dried on a meat tray that had a pattern. I like how it transfer to the fabric.

Paint, Take It Further

I finally had a chance to try an idea I've had for a long time using Brusho paints that I got from The Thread Studio http://www.thethreadstudio.com/ in Australia. Using a small spoon that is for embossing powders, I dropped tiny bits of the dry granules onto wet paper. Then I used a foam brush to pull out some of the paint along the outside of my main design. I sure like what happened. Be careful when you try it. A blog is easy to drop and dries without spreading. I had to brush it off another sample but did it over wet paper to get full use of the paint.

Here is my selection for the next Take It Further Challenge organized by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com As usual I will be doing the color scheme-just not a concept person. This will be a purse.

TIF Challenge

Before a Nancy Crow workshop, we were to come up with some motifs to work with. I've gone back to one of them for this month's TIF organized by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com/

Since the colors are not mine, I think I will do a 4 patch. Here are some possibilities. Now to choose. Any opinions?
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6 7I must explore this block some more. It seems to have lots of scope. And, finally, the latest addition to the family. They are a week old now.

TIF Challenge, Workshop

It's April, so there is a new challenge. Again I'm going with the color scheme and picked these fabrics. These are really ones I wouldn't pick, so this will"take it further". The link to Sharonb is http://sharonb.wordpress.com
This is another design from the workshop in March. We were to use color to portray a season. This is Spring.

TIF Challenge, Bead Journal Project

Since this is going to be one of those months where I'm too busy to think, I decided to combine the Take it Further Challenge http://sharonb.wordpress.com/ with the Bead Journal Project http://beadjournalproject.blogspot.com/ using the color scheme option again. The sequins will be put on using a shisha method, and the other beads will be in lines that ripple around the sequins. The background is black wool that I felted and interfaced to support the beads.

I've finally figured out how to move the pictures where I want them-the learning curve is still steep on this stuff. This is the Journal I made for putting technique papers in for the class I'm testing for Sue Bleiweiss. Information on the course which she will offer in the fall can be found at http://webpages.charter.net/sbleiweiss/mmtechniquesclass.htm The fabric is an African print that I bought in Houston when my son took me to a big, great fabric store in the museum district. The button is antique.

Gift and TIF

This is the wonderful Calendar Girl card that I received this month from Susan D.
My February TIF Challenge piece is finished. It is a sampler of laidwork and was fun to experiment with a stitch I haven't used much. The Challenge was implemented by Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com

Take It Further

First, thanks to all who visit, but who don't have an email contact. I enjoy the comments and meeting other artists.

For February, I decided to do a sampler in the colors that Sharonb http://sharonb.wordpress.com/ had listed for the challenge. With the 2 hand work online classes, I didn't get much done. I'm exploring laid work.

Take It Further

Again, I will be doing the color scheme. Color really talks to me. Here are the fabric and threads I have chosen. I think I want to stitch a sampler this month.

This is part of the challenge started by Sharonbhttp://sharonb.wordpress.com/

Take It Further

Here's my piece ready to be layered and quilted. It is a lot paler than I am used to working, so a challenge. It is for http://sharonb.wordpress.com/