Pink Donation Top #2

Pink Donation Top #2
Pink Donation Top #2

Here is the top. It took me all weekend to get it done. I have been sewing slowly lately and it took me all weekend to get it finished.

I am pretty pleased with how it came out, but I wish I hadn’t used the darker batik strips. I do think they stick out more in the photo than in real life.

Still, I think some child will enjoy this quilt.

Pink Donation Top Back #2
Pink Donation Top Back #2

I made the back as well. I used some nice fabrics that I thought I wouldn’t use in a quilt. I think it looks cheerful. I especially like the fabric in the lower left hand corner.

Pink Donation Quilt #2

Pink donation blocks (set 2)
Pink donation blocks (set 2)

I have finished all of the blocks for a second pink donation quilt. I started putting the sashing on, but the whole process seems a bit rote. I have about a zillion pink squares, so I have to keep pushing forward on the pink version of these quilts.

I have done two with the black on white background and am a little bored with the look. I am going to change up the next one and include some green or use the pink as the background. We’ll see what happens.

I still think it is fun to make up the blocks using different fabrics. I also wonder if using a non-traditional background color will make the pink less interesting. No way to know until I try it.

2 Pink Donation Blocks
2 Pink Donation Blocks

In these two blocks, I took a couple of color on white fabrics and put those on the background. This idea might be another thing to consider for a background.

I think I am not using enough dots in general. I really like that dot in the upper right hand corner of the left block.

2 Pink Donation Blocks
2 Pink Donation Blocks

These blocks also have some color on white backgrounds as well. I have to say that I don’t like the batiks in these blocks. In the overall look, they are ok, but I think I also might stick to light or medium pinks as the group of fabrics in another version of pink and neutral.

2 Pink Donation Blocks
2 Pink Donation Blocks

As you can see I spread the color on white fabrics throughout the various blocks. I didn’t want them to stand out as odd in the overall look of the quilt top.

Creative Prompt #170: Painting

Definition: Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is also used outside of art as a common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay, paper, gold leaf as well as objects.

faux painting

Fine Art Paintings

painting contractor

Textile painting

painting a room

painting furniture

watercolor painting

painting supplies

oil painting

Rock painting

Painting magazine

car painting

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Creative Prompt #169: Name

Domain name

Baby name

Family name

Nom de plume

legally change your name

National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts promoting the hobby.

Holy Names

Definition: A systematic name is a name given in a systematic way to one unique group, organism, object or chemical substance, out of a specific population or collection. Systematic names are usually part of a nomenclature.

A Horse with no Name

Chemical name

Code name

Name and shame

What’s in a Name?

Name That Tune (game show)

Name-Calling

sort by name

name tag

profile name

name attribute

In the Name of the Father

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a structured vocabulary of geographic names for indexing art and architecture.

U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Domestic Names, Foreign Names, Antarctic Names, and Undersea Features.

Definition: A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning also) and is a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes, more loosely, called names; an older term for them, now obsolete, is “general names“.

Hello! My Name is….

The Name of the Rose

business name availability

What’s in a name?

pen name

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Sketching #164

imageThis drawing was ready weeks ago and I don’t know why I didn’t post it.

I don’t need my computer for a few days so I took it to be repaired….then I remembered I wanted to post tonight. Murphy’s Law, I suppose, bit I am making due. I may replace the photos in the future.

I used scarlet and a more turquoisey, but not quite, blue rathwr than the traditional colors. I like how this drawing came out.

Yellow Donation Top

Yellow Donation Top with borders
Yellow Donation Top with borders

What do you think?

The photo looks a little golder than it is. While there is a bit of gold in this top, the border fabric is definitely a bright yellow.

Many of these fabrics are from the Pat Bravo/Art Gallery Fabric scrap bag that I received. You can’t really see much of those fabrics, because of the problem I had with the sashing.

Yellow donation top back
Yellow donation top back

I took the opportunity to use several of my golds for the back. I didn’t think I would use them for anything in the near future. I chose them in the hope that some small sick child will find comfort in those fabrics.

Creative Prompt #168: Imagine

BBC One: Imagine: The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob.

Imagine

Imagine a place
Where everything is calm and clear
Decisions between wrong and right are simple
And you`d never have a second thought
Imagine a place
Where everyone belongs with someone
A soul mate for a soul mate
Everyone is happy
Forget the heartache
Forget the pain
Breathe deeply in love
And never exhale
There would never be a moment of doubt
But this isn`t a fairy tale
This is real life
There is heartache and pain
And not everything is clear
People make mistakes
People make good choices
But in the end
There will always be something wrong
And maybe you`ll forget it
Maybe you won`t
There`s not always a soul mate
Not always someone to love
But it`s always nice
To imagine
Because you`re never too old
To create a block in your mind
And shut out reality
So, take a deep breath
And close your eyes
Imagine a place
Where their are happily ever afters
And dreams that can come true

Jessica Robert

Imagine is a newsletter for precollege students who want to take an active role in their own education.

Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett, Washington

Site intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe.

Imagine” is a song written and performed by English musician John Lennon. It was released as a single from his album Imagine in 1971.

Definition: (third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined)

  1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or createsomething in one’s mind.
    Try to imagine a pink elephant.
  2. (transitive) To believein something created by one’s own mind.
    She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
  3. (transitive) To assume.
    I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
  4. (transitive) To conjectureor guess.
    I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
  5. (intransitive) To use one’s imagination.
    Imagine that we were siblings
  6. (intransitive) To guessor conjecture.
    Let me imagine – it’s a ring!
    The board imagines the merger should increase profits about a quarter

Imagine: How Creativity Works, a 2012 book by Jonah Lehrer

Imagine Foods

Imagine… A Fantasy in the Sky, a fireworks show at the Disneyland Resort in California, U.S.

Ikarus Imagine, a German hang glider design

Imagine (AD&D magazine), an adventure-games magazine

Imagine (educational magazine), an educational periodical for 7th-12th graders

 

Imagine Publishing, a UK-based magazine publisher

Imagine, a 1970s comics magazine published by Star Reach

Imagine, official journal of the Socialist Party of Canada

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Creative Prompt #167: Solitaire

card game

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Solitaire is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Solitaire is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1973 by Columbia Records.

 

Solitaire, A Rose

The morning rose you touched still stands.
And see how sweet, how sweet this one,
this single one it smells when in the sun?

And each petal falls,
once full when open is now gone.
Each single one by they are young,
like all the rest now gone.

Rare such flowers once were loved,
when blind are cast aside.
To see each loved each every one.
But one not loved by any one.

And loved is this a single one.
Solitaire,
is played by hand then picked,
by wind and gone.

Jane Seymour played Solitaire in Live and Let Die

Definition: Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. In the USA, it may refer to any card game played by oneself; the British use the term Patience to refer to solitaire with cards. The term “solitaire” is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. These games include Peg solitaire and Mahjong solitaire. Most solitaire games function as a puzzle which, due to a different starting position, may (or may not) be solved in a different fashion each time.

kind of diamond ring

Neil Sedaka album

Ski movie

“The Way”/”Solitaire” is the second commercial double A-side CD single by Clay Aiken released on March 16, 2004, on the RCA label.

a pipelaying vessel

a superhero comic book created by Gerard Jones and Jeff Johnson in 1993 for Malibu Comics.

Solitaire Unraveling” is a song by the American industrial metal band Mushroomhead and the lead single from their first major label album XX, released in 2001

 

Solitaire

Silently I stepped around
not to disturb anyone with a sound.
Just to enjoy the morning silence
where my mind could wander around.

Enjoy the peace in the air
without intruding voices everywhere
and enjoy the solitaire
that the morning held there.

17 September 2010

David Harris

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Creative Prompt #166: Growth

plant growth

period of rapid growth

economic growth

Definition: Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. The quantity can be:

  • Physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money)
  • Abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature).

It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particular quantity grows over time. (Wikipedia)

tumor

development from a simpler to more complex form (freedictionary.com)

growth of a city

trade growth

personal growth

growth economy

exponential growth

cell growth

smart growth

growth hormone

Growth chart

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