Catch Up Thursday

It turns out that Sunday’s Catch Up post wasn’t enough. I have more photos to show you and stuff to tell you. I may have to start doubling up on posts each day!

I showed you TFQ’s Fresh Modern (or sherbet) hexagon project in a previous post.

TFQ's 1930s Hexagons
TFQ's 1930s Hexagons

Above is a piece of one she is actively working on. She is making a bedcover. The hexagons are about 1.5″ and she is doing the whole piece by hand, which I think is the only sensible way to make this pattern.

Coffee Art, Seattle
Coffee Art, Seattle

I love coffee art. I don’t usually buy mochas, but got one last week when I was waiting for TFQ in a cafe. I had about an hour to wait, so I bought a large coffee and got out my drawing materials. Isn’t this coffee flower inspirational? It has some of the same elements as Paula Nadelstern’s Kaleidoscopes.

Creative Prompt Project

Lisa has joined the Flicker Group. Take a look at her work at:

http://www.lisalizalou.com
http://lisalizalou.blogspot.com

Doing Some Good

While not a knitting blog, it is important for me to collect and report on opportunities for doing good. I was reading the recent Lands’ End catalog. An ad for Kate Jacobs’ Knit the Season book caught my eye. On the same page, Lands’End offered a pattern for a hat to knit for charity and give a FeelGood web address for the campaign.

Holiday Sewing

For the first time in a long time, I am doing some major sewing for Christmas. I will, of course, show you everything, but I may not be able to show you as I make the items. Some of the people on the list read this blog. There will be lots to look at as December progresses, but lots more after the holidays are over.

Creative Prompt Responses

SherriD kindly let me know that some recent photos I had posted were ‘bleary’. Isn’t that a great word? I have reposted various CPP responses:

Glimmer

Feather

Core

Wish

Please go and take another look at them. Thanks for your patience.

Sketching #38

Response: Glimmer
Response: Glimmer

Response: Glimmer

Again, I was influenced by SherriD’s ‘glimmer’ response. I am working on adding lots of details.

Sketching #41

Response: Core
Response: Core

Response: Core

I am trying to get back in the saddle and not let all of the prompt responses languish. Here is my most recent response, Core. I’ll work on the detail for next week.

Creative Prompt #41: Core

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

Core strength.

Apple core.

The Earth’s core.

Intel Core 2 Duo.

Andromeda’s core.

Core curriculum.

Getting at the core.

Core compentancies.

Congress of Racial Equality.

Core knowledge.

Core values.

Core data.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Sharing the CPP

Quilt Rat Jill has been doing some wonderful CPP work. Recently, I was over at Finishing Lines, Kathy Perino’s blog, and saw what Jill had done with some of her Prompt Responses. What a wonderful way to extend the creativity!
clipped from finishinglinesbyksperino.blogspot.com
Really. Just for admiring the Quilt Rat’s talents she sent me a package full of treasures. She is our friendly neighbor from Canada and if you haven’t already – I hope you go visit her page. She is multi talented and always has tid bits to share about her fiber art and quilting. Recently, she had a great recipe for treating fabric before printing. So go check her out here…..
Quilt Rat has been participating in the CPP and has turned some of her doodles into post cards.

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Creative Prompt #40: Wish

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Make a wish

Make-A-Wish Foundation

A hope or desire for something.

If you rub the lamp, a genie will give you three wishes

WISH – a TV station in Indianapolis

Nine Inch Nails performs Wish

Wish you were here (song by Pink Floyd of the same name)

Wish bone

Wish-bone salad dressing

What is on your wish list?

I wish I had thought of that!

Wish upon a star

Wishing well

Wish you well

Creative Prompt #39: Spirit

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

The Spirit of St. Louis

She’s got spirit!

A spirited horse.

Spirit Airlines

A supernatural being (ghost)

Holy Spirit

Sprites, elves, fairies and wood spirits

Spirit squad / cheerleaders

Spirit totem

An independent spirit

Spirit Awards

NASA’s Spirit Rover

Creative Prompt #38: Glimmer

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Definition: 1 a : to shine faintly or unsteadily b : to give off a subdued unsteady reflection
2 : to appear indistinctly with a faintly luminous quality

A glimmer of hope

LG Glimmer cell phone

The Glimmer Man (1996) – Directed by John Gray. With Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton.

Glimmer, a poem by Carl Sandburg

LET down your braids of hair, lady.
Cross your legs and sit before the looking-glass
And gaze long on lines under your eyes.
Life writes; men dance.
And you know how men pay women.

(odd poem, I know, but I was getting a little hard up for inspiration)

Creative Prompt #37: Gracious

This is a tribute to my friend, Pinky Davidson, the epitome of kindness, a gracious, well mannered woman who took a genuine interest in all of her younger friends.

Gracious definition: marked by kindness and courtesy

Good gracious!

Gracious living.

Gracious me!

He is such a gracious host.

Sew Gracious Blog – lots of ads for her Etsy Shop, but the Wordless Wednesday is interesting.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Creative Prompt #36: Feather

Wikipedia definition:  one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates.

Light as a feather.

Peacock, ostrich, hummingbirds and pheasant feathers.

Feather River, Quincy, CA

Feather boa.

Plume

Quill.

Pin feathers.

Fly tying.

Down pillows.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Creative Prompt #35: Purple

SURPRISE!!!!!!

I am posting a special creative prompt to coincide with her “virtue of bliss” for creativity week.

Kathy, my long time friend, is doing a year long project on adding more bliss to her life. You can see her blog, Everyday Bliss, and learn more about the project on her blog.

To inspire you….

Purple has always been a royal color

Kathy thinks of purple as a magical or fairy color

Julie‘s favorite color

Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze

Purple People Eater

Jessie has a pink and purple monster that lives behind her house

Abby Kadabby from Sesame Street

Purple Rain from Prince

Barney the Purple Dinosaur

Grapes

Purple is the color of the font that Kathy uses for her Monday post font color

McDonald’s character, Grimace

Purple is a general term used in English for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue (Wikipedia)

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Violets (color and flower)

Iris, Orchids and Crocuses

Purple Dragon Tour Company

I have never seen a purple cow I never hope to see one… by Gelett Burgess

MTA Maryland has a purple line

Lavender

Purple Cafe and Wine Bar in Downtown Seattle

Deep Purple

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

When I am an Old Woman, I Will Wear Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Order of the Purple Heart

Creative Prompt #34: Summer

Summer may be over, but this prompt will give you the opportunity to relive it. Summer is one of the four temperate seasons, marked by the warmest time of year with the longest days, and lies between spring and autumn. (from Wikipedia)

Beach Boys

Endless Summer

Summer Session.

Summer school.

Summer stock.

Barbeque, cookouts, picnics.

Summer jobs.

School’s out for summer!

Donna Summer

500 Days of Summer

Summer Solstice

Summertime lime

Indian summer

Summer camp

Summer internship

Summer Olympics

Summer abroad

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

CPP: Look what Kathy Made

I took a look at Kathy’s Finishing Lines site and was pleased to see that she used one of her CPP responses to make a little quiltlet. I am so thrilled! I think that this is the ultimate goal of the project – to get people’s creative juices flowing.

Nice job, Kathy!

clipped from finishinglinesbyksperino.blogspot.com

awakening quiltlet

Below is the CPP image colored with pencils and copied on Printed Treasures. Mistakenly, I heat set my colors without removing the paper back; then it was impossible to peel. I soaked it to loosen the paper and while that was laying out to dry….

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Creative Prompt #33: Spiral

You should all have fun with this one!

Definition from Wikipedia: In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.

Fibonacci Spiral.

2007 movie directed by Adam Green and Joel Moore.

Spiral anime.

Nautilus shells.

Spiral notebook.

Spiraling out of control.

Fermat’s spiral.

Miquelrius notebook.

Periodic Spiral is a unique redesign of the Mendeleyevian periodic table

Spiral of Archimedes.

Death spiral.

Spirograph Box
Spirograph Box

Spirograph (see www.samstoybox.com/toys/Spirograph.html)

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.

Creative Prompt #32: Even

Are your bangs even?

Level; flat; without surface irregularities (from Dictionary.com)

Even or odd?

Even steven!

On an even keel.

Even weave.

Pearl Jam’s Even Flow.

Even numbers.

David Trevellyan thriller.

Get even.

Even more.

Break even.

With an even hand.

Even handed.

Even worse

Even better.

Even color.

Sharona Even-Ram

Air Supply’s Even the Nights are Better.

See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.

Post the direct URL where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. It will keep all the artwork together.

The Creative Prompt Project, also, now, has a Flickr group, which you can join and where you can post your responses.

There is more information on the recently updated Creative Prompt Page.