Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
CQFA was last Saturday, as I mentioned in the ATC post, and was held in our new space. Andrea at A Work of Heart is allowing us to use the space on Saturdays when the shop is closed. Marie and Maureen worked really hard to arrange for us to use the space. It is a … Continue reading “CQFA December 2017 Meeting”
A few weeks ago I posted a Spark about having a secret. It was purely coincidental with the project I was working on. I needed to work on this project, but I did not want comments or to provoke the storm I know will come with this post. I wasn’t quite ready. I still am … Continue reading “I Have a Secret”
The BAMQG meeting was….sometime in the recent past. I have a lot going on and can’t quite remember. Anyway, one fabulous thing that happened was that Karen M brought her finished ‘Color My Quilt’ piece. I thought it looked fabulous. She talked quite a bit about how she put it together and where she added … Continue reading “Color My Quilt WOW”
I am working on the next Creative Spark, but am not quite finished. I thought I would give you a preview with today’s ColorPlay Inspiration photo. Once again the default was a disappointment. More neutrals. This is a colorful photo and all I get are neutrals. I wonder what the algorithm has against colors? Of … Continue reading “ColorPlay: Tableware”
See For Sale Items: fabric, design wall and canvas. Great deals!!! Short but sweet. Blocks, Quilts & Projects I saw a reference to improvisational hashtag blocks on Carol’s blog and took a look. At first I didn’t read ‘improvisational’ correctly. I read it as a weird word related to improving something. Somehow stitching words on … Continue reading “Various & Sundry 2017 #6”
The other day I wrote about grace. The part that has been on my mind, some from Carrie Bloomston’s book, The Little Spark, “I am still trying to get a firm image of grace in my mind. Bloomston provides several metaphors which inch me closer. “Grace is the hinge between effort and effortless. There is … Continue reading “Following up on Grace”
I owe you a chapter from The Little Spark book, but that chapter will not be this week. Thanksgiving kicked my butt and after I post this, I am going to lay on the floor of my workroom and pretend I am sewing. Once again we are looking at color palettes. This is an endlessly … Continue reading “ColorPlay November 25”
I still want to encourage creativity and creative pursuits in YOU via a regular blog post, so here is another effort using The Little Spark book. A few weeks ago, I posted about the first chapter of The Little Spark and how to start to use this book to spark your creativity. I also reminded … Continue reading “Creativity: Chapter 2”
As I said after the Creative Prompt Project ended, I still want to encourage creativity and creative pursuits in YOU via a regular blog post, but I didn’t want to create any more creative prompts. As I also said, that may change, but for now I am trying different things. I have done a couple … Continue reading “Creativity: Chapter 1”
An American retired professional wrestler, fitness instructor, motivational speaker and actor. diamond in the rough girl’s best friend Hope Diamond drill bit Definition: “In mineralogy, diamond (/?da??m?nd/ or /?da?m?nd/; from the ancient Greek ?????? – adámas “unbreakable”) is a metastable allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered … Continue reading “Creative Prompt #360: Diamond”
The meeting on Saturday was long and fabulous. I can’t write one post on all that happened. It is too much to include. We had a short business meeting, then everyone put their challenge and workshop pieces up and we all walked around and looked at them. While this was happening, some of us exchanged … Continue reading “CQFA December 2015 Meeting-ATCs”
On my Reno trip, I also went to Windy Moon Quilts #2. They have two locations and we went to the newer one, which is located in an old school building in (or near, maybe) Sparks, NV. The shop was packed. They had a lot of fabric, notions, tools, kits, thread -everything. The shop is … Continue reading “Quilt Shop: Windy Moon #2”
Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking by Jill K. Berry I bought this book because of Maureen and Nancy and their work in creativity. I am also interested in mixed media – in doing mixed media projects, but don’t have the space right now, so I don’t do much. I carried this book around for … Continue reading “Book Review: Personal Geographies”
sweetheart or endearment National Honey Board Honey badger Twigs & Honey – Bridal headpieces, wedding headpieces, hair vines, crystal halos, bridal headbands, crowns, tiaras, bridal combs, bridal hairpins, silk flowers, bridal hair. Honey Week – NYC – A weeklong, citywide festival celebrating the honeybee, NYC Honey Week 2015 merges the educational, the entertaining, and the … Continue reading “Creative Prompt #323: Honey”
I had a great time at the meeting yesterday and it really didn’t have anything to do with the actual meeting. After the business and show and tell, we sat down to work on the picture I posted earlier this week as our workshop picture. We split up and added more tables so people had … Continue reading “Another Great CQFA Meeting”