Fabric Papermaking

Last Saturday, CQFAers met at Sue’s house where she tried to teach us the secrets from Stitch Alchemy, a book by Kelli Perkins. The idea is to make fabric paper – a combination of fabric and paper. I hope to use mine for journal pages for journals like the Red Journal.

Rhonda's Raffia
Rhonda's Raffia

I don’t share well, but space was limited and Rhonda (of BAMQG fame – she plays with both teams 😉 )and I ended up next to each other. She is a great tablemate! We shared well and she is extremely creative. I felt like an idea-less boob next to her. She is like me in that we just got down to it. We also had fun.

During the time I thought of texture, because of the podcast I had just recorded with Sandy. I have a lot of schnibbles from pressing fabric so I brought that with me and adhered them to the paper. Sue wasn’t sure if it would work but it was worth a try.

The next step is to paint the fabric. We will do that at the next CQFA meeting.

Creative Prompt #154: Escape

escape paintball

Escape from Alcatraz

By Emily Dickinson

I never hear the word “Escape”
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation –
A flying attitude!
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars
Only to fail again!

Escape from New York

a computer game

the Great Escape

escape fate

escape the maze

 

Definition: [ih-skeyp] Show IPAverb, es·caped, es·cap·ing, noun, adjective, verb (used without object). 1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. 2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil. 3.to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid. 4. to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory. 5. Botany . (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild. verb (used with object):  7. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police. 8. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture. 9. to elude (one’s memory, notice, search, etc.). 10. to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me. 11. (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one’s lips, etc.) inadvertently.

Ford Escape SUV

Her name escapes me

escape the room

escapism: is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to help relieve persisting feelings of depression or general sadness. (Wikipedia)

prison break

Escape”, a song by Journey from the album Escape

to elude

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to succeed in avoiding

 

 

Creative Prompt #153: Arrangement

Flower arrangement

What are your arrangements?

Do you need help with the arrangements?

What arrangement did you decide on for your blocks?

order

Music definition: The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as “the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure” (Corozine 2002, p. 3). Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging “involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings…Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety” (ibid).

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(from Wikipedia)

Have you made arrangements for the meeting?

arrangement dating

arrangement of the furniture

childcare arrangements

musical arrangement

Edible Arrangements

Geometry Definition: In geometry and combinatorics, an arrangement of hyperplanes is a finite set A of hyperplanes in a linear, affine, or projective space S. Questions about a hyperplane arrangement A generally concern geometrical, topological, or other properties of the complement, M(A), which is the set that remains when the hyperplanes are removed from the whole space. One may ask how these properties are related to the arrangement and its intersection semilattice. The intersection semilattice of A, written L(A), is the set of all subspaces that are obtained by intersecting some of the hyperplanes; among these subspaces are S itself, all the individual hyperplanes, all intersections of pairs of hyperplanes, etc. (excluding, in the affine case, the empty set). These subspaces are called the flats of A. L(A) is partially ordered by reverse inclusion.

If the whole space S is 2-dimensional, the hyperplanes are lines; such an arrangement is often called an arrangement of lines. Historically, real arrangements of lines were the first arrangements investigated. If S is 3-dimensional one has an arrangement of planes.

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Creative Prompt #152: Lift

elevator

lift up your arms

Definition: to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.

web framework

lift a blockade

lift a curfew

lift my spirits

lift a glass

Definition: A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts surface force on it. Lift is any component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction.[1] It contrasts with the drag force, which is the component of the surface force parallel to the flow direction. If the fluid is air, the force is called an aerodynamic force.

rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight (Wikipedia)

movements in pair skating and ice dancing (Wikipedia)

facelift

ski lift

forklift

a symbol used in music notation (Wikipedia)

hydraulic lift

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Creative Prompt #151: Memory

memory book

The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)

loss of memory

City of Memory – story map of NYC

memory album

Barbara Streisand – Memory

my memory is going

what a lovely memory!

random access memory

Definition: In psychology, memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is retrieval. This is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.

computer memory

improve memory

American Memory from the Library of Congress

UCSF Memory & Aging Center

Memory (Cats Song): “Memory“, often incorrectly referred to as “Memories”, is a show tune from the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats[1] sung by the character Grizabella, a one-time glamour cat who is now a shell of her former self. The song is a nostalgic remembrance of her glorious past and a declaration of her wishes to start a new life. Sung briefly in the first act and in full near the end of the show, “Memory” is the climax of the musical, and by far its most popular and well-known song.

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Creative Prompt #150: Quatrefoil

Definition: The word quatrefoil etymologically means “four leaves”, and applies to general four-lobed shapes in various contexts. In heraldic terminology, a quatrefoil is a representation of a flower with four petals, or a leaf with four leaflets (such as a four-leaf clover). It is sometimes shown “slipped”, i.e. with an attached stalk. However, it is not defined as a flower, but called a “foil”. In the U.S. Marine Corps, quatrefoil refers to a four-pointed decoration on the top of a warrant or commissioned Marine officer’s dress and service caps (see peaked caps, also known in the Marines as “barracks covers”). According to tradition, the design was first used with Marine officers on sailing ships so that Marine sharpshooters in the rigging did not shoot their own officers on the deck during close-quarters gun battles (as when crews of opposing ships attempted to board each other’s ship).

Quatrefoil Library in the Twin Cities

window

Phi Mu’s symbol is their sacred four-point quatrefoil. It is a unique shape and can be traced back to early European design. Phi Mus love to spot the popular shape in everyday use. Many wonder what the quatrefoil’s importance is to the fraternity but only a Phi Mu sister will know.

The quatrefoil is an ancient symbol of good luck, a Celtic symbol representing “the wheel of being,”

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Creative Prompt #149: Parallelogram

Definition: In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a convex quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure. The congruence of opposite sides and opposite angles is a direct consequence of the Euclidean Parallel Postulate and neither condition can be proven without appealing to the Euclidean Parallel Postulate or one of its equivalent formulations. The three-dimensional counterpart of a parallelogram is a parallelepiped.

The etymology (in Greek ????????-????????, a shape “of parallel lines”) reflects the definition.

rectangle

a shape

theorems for a parallelogram

not a triangle

a method of vector resolution

Parallelogram Lifts

area of a parallellogram

Android app

square

 

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Sketching #146

CPP Response #146: Broke
CPP Response #146: Broke

I am really trying to get back on track with this project.I responded to the two most recent ones the other day while waiting at the doctor’s office for the Young Man. I could have put in more detail, but he came out and I decided that I wasn’t creating masterpieces. Done is better than perfect.

This was a nice exercise on trying to figure out how to make a window look broken. I am not sure I achieved it, but I think I made a good effort.

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Sketching #147

CPP Response #147: Indigo
CPP Response #147: Indigo

I am not sure that blue is truly indigo, but I only had a certain number of colors in my ‘to go’ kit, so I had to make due.I thought of coloring over the blue with purple. What do you think?

Did you create a response to this prompt? Please share!

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Creative Prompt #148: Tea

iced tea

Tea Party

tea service

tea time

Boston Tea Party

tea chest

herbal tea

silver tea service

tea and crumpets

Imperial Tea Court

tea ceremony

ritual of tea

Lovejoy’s Tea Room, San Francisco

Cuppa

Republic of Tea

Definition: Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself.

After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.[2] It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.[3]

The phrase herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative phrases for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with “tea” as it is construed here.

tea garden

teapot

teacup

loose tea

tea bag

 

tea plantation

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Creative Prompt #147: Indigo

Try to respond with the first thought that comes to your mind.

Definition: Indigo is a color named after the blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet. Although traditionally considered one of seven colors of the rainbow or the optical spectrum, modern color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a separate division and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as violet.[2] Optical scientists Hardy and Perrin list indigo as between 446 and 464 nm wavelength.[3]

The first recorded use of indigo as a color name in English was in 1289.[4]

indigo plantation

indigo children

indigo restaurant in San Francisco

Pokemon Indigo

Macintosh home control server

A chapter in Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

the Indigo Girls

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Creative Prompt #146: Broke

penniless

Broke, New South Wales, Australia

2 Broke Girls – CBS

broke promises

the vase broke

go for broke

dead broke

the couple broke up

broke the news

broke the bank

broke the system

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Creative Prompt #145: Fly

Restaurant in San Francisco

Dixie Chicks album: Fly

Flying nun

The Fly (movie)

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
William Lyon Phelps (Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fly.html#ixzz1nGXxFEeg)

Must fly!

Fly Lady

Definition #1: True flies are insects of the order Diptera (from the Greek di = two, and ptera = wings). They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax. Apart from secondarily flightless insects (including some flies), the only other order of insects with any form of halteres are the Strepsiptera, and theirs are on the mesothorax, with the flight wings on the metathorax.

tent fly

horse fly

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash (Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fly.html#ixzz1nGYT26cW)

your fly is open

strength training exercise

a pattern run by a receiver in American football

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Fly River

HMS Fly

fly ball

how birds move from place to place

on the fly

house fly

aviation

The brand of universal youth fashion culture

fly.twitter.com

 

high fly ball

Definition #2: (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

Creative Prompt #144: East

East meets West

The Far East

East Coast

Back East

East Bay

Definition: East s a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. East is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of west and is perpendicular to north and south.

East side of town

Eastern seaboard

East Asia

East of the moon

California State University, East Bay

Middle East

East Bay Regional Parks

East Orange

The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling

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Sketching #120

CPP Response #120: Willow
CPP Response #120: Willow

One of the struggles I have with these prompts is in what order to draw the lines. I want things that should be in the front not to have lines going through them for things that should be in the back. I often stop and try to figure out what I should draw first. In this case, I got so wrapped up in the zillions of willow leaves that I neglected the proper size of the trunk.

I may work on this one a bit more. It needs a bit of a bank around the pond and many, many more leaves on the tree.  Still, I am not unhappy with the drawing.

I am trying to catch up by responding to two prompts a week. It is hard, because I don’t really draw much at home and the Young Man has reduced his appointment schedule (read time for me to sit and read, write letters or draw – no cell phones allowed) to once every other week. I simply cannot do 4 drawings in an hour. I need more time than that. He is getting older and busier, so I can’t blame him for wanting to reduce the schedule, but I do blame him for taking my time away. 😉  I do keep reminding myself that if I had just drawn every week when I posted the prompts, I wouldn’t be in this pickle.

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