Day -7- Art Every Day Month 2010

How to make a felt flower by Olivia:

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -7- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery

Day -6- Art Every Day Month 2010

I made a hand-embroidered, felted case for my pens:

front

From Felted

back

From Felted

Techniques used:
wet felting, some stitches from Laura's thread-u-cation

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -6- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery

Day -5- Art Every Day Month 2010

From Sketches

Subject: actual texture

Materials: a chalk washed background paper, fabrics, glue.

Part of my homework from current lessons from
"the Artist's Toolbox", given by Lyric Kinard at
Quilt University.

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -5- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery
• Artist's Toolbox at Quilt University
• Lyric Montgomery Kinard's works

Day -4- Art Every Day Month 2010

Today's contribution is part of my homework from current lessons from "the Artist's Toolbox", given by Lyric Kinard at Quilt University:

From Sketches

Subject: shape

Materials: a chalk washed background paper, colored pencils, black PITT artist pens, picture.

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -4- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery
• Artist's Toolbox at Quilt University
• Lyric Montgomery Kinard's works

Day -3- Art Every Day Month 2010

Today no sketches but a piece of felted soap which I made to fragrance my wardrobe:

From Felted

I cannot show you how I learned to make one in my felting class, but Amanda Warford made this nice video tutorial:

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -3- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery

Day -2- Art Every Day Month 2010

This is my contribution for today, part of my homework from current lessons from "the Artist's Toolbox" at Quilt University:

From Sketches

Subject: visual texture

Materials: torned paper pieces of gray/white copies made from 5 different scanned fabrics.

Used fabrics:

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Summary of links:

• More AEDM day -2- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery
• Artist's Toolbox at Quilt University
• Lyric Montgomery Kinard's works

Day -1- Art Every Day Month 2010

Today is the first day of my Art Every Day Month 2010.
Last year I truly enjoyed the challenge to produce something creative every day during 30 days.
In 2009 I joined for the first time this blogger's event organized by Leah Piken Kolidas.
If you are looking for a way to celebrate your creativity all month long, don't hesitate and join this year's party too!

This month I am reading Lyric Kinard's book "Art + Quilt" and I love to combine being creative every day with some of the exercises from the book. My experiments with felting can also be a subject of the day.

But for today I like to show part of my homework from current lessons from "the Artist's Toolbox" at Quilt University:

From Sketches

Subject: texture

Materials: a chalk washed background paper, HB pencil, black PITT artist pens, pictures of things with texture.

Thank you for your visit!

More info:

• More Art Every Day Month 2010 day -1- participants
• General info page to join Leah Piken Kolidas AEDM
• Leah's Blue Tree Art Gallery
• Artist's Toolbox at Quilt University
• Lyric Montgomery Kinard's works

Dip-A-Dee-Doodle 05

From Dip-A-Dee-Doodle

Materials used: a notebook, black pencil, some sharpies and some tsukineko copics.
Thank you for your visit to my Art Creative Every Day # 13 blog!
This is the last one for November's Art Creative Every Day Challenge.
It was sometimes hard to hold on every day, but it was worth the effort.
I re-discovered how nice it is to doodle away some negative feelings and to explore ideas for new quilts.
In December starts a new Challenge with its weekly check-in and monthly theme: Recycle.

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day December: theme Recycle
• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• My Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa

Dip-A-Dee-Doodle 04

From Dip-A-Dee-Doodle

Materials used: a notebook, black micro pigma pen 0.25, some sharpies and some tsukineko copics.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 12 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• My Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

This is my today's contribution to Art Every Day, another fancy stitch made by machine. Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 11 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

First I printed the text on a sheet of translucent vellum paper. With temporary adhesive I sticked the vellum on the fabric.
I free hand machine quilted  the words following the print on the vellum.

In the background you can see the hand-look quilting stitch made by machine (see previous posting). In this case I used a dark monofilament thread through the needle instead of a light one, because the fabric is dark, and for contrast a light coloured thread in the bobbin

Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 10 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

Creative Commons: why and how

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More information:

• Creative Commons organisation
• About the Creative Commons licenses
• To make a CC button: choose a license
• A list of organizations and projects powered with Creative Commons licenses.

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

For another accent I stitched blue crosses at the border with the sewing machine.

Update November 28:
First, I stitched the dark fabric to the light fabric with a dark monofilament with the same stitch as in Dip-A-Dee-Stitching 045. After that I added the blue crosses and the straight stitches on the outside edge; together they are part of one fancy machine stitch.

Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 9 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

This is my experiment with a "hand-look" quilting stitch made on the sewing machine.
Materials used: coloured thread in the bobbin, light monofilament thread through the needle.
The monofilament thread is a polyester one, not a nylon one. Nylon tends to get yellow and britle as it gets older.
I found an instruction on how to do this quilting stitch at the FAQ's of Bernina USA.

Update November 27:
For another example click here.

Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 8 blog!


Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

Applique stitching on the sewing machine.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 7 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

Dip-A-Dee-Stitching 001

From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

More fun stitching on the sewing machine today, using som coloured thread in a twin needle on a journal quilt (8.5 x 11 inch). I hope the yellow Sewline marks will vanish.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 6 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

Some fun stitching on the sewing machine today for a journal quilt (8.5 x 11 inch).
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 5 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

Dip-A-Dee-Doodle 03

From Dip-A-Dee-Doodle

Materials used: a notebook, black micro pigma pen 0.25 and some sharpies.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day # 4 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• My Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa

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From Dip-A-Dee-Stitching

No doodling with sharpies today, but stiching on the sewing machine, using some favorite colored fabrics and threads, and a fun stitch.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day #3 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• my Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa
• my Dip-A-Dee-Stitching album at Picasa

Dip-A-Dee-Doodle 02

From Dip-A-Dee-Doodle

Materials used: a notebook and some sharpies.
Thank you for your visit to my Creative Every Day 2 blog!

Summary of links:

• Creative Every Day Challenge
• Leah Piken Kolidas Blue Tree Art Gallery
• My Dip-A-Dee-Doodle album at Picasa