Seventy Days to 70

I have a milestone birthday coming up soon, number 70! Five years ago I started my daily stitching journey with "Sixty five days to 65". This time I knew I wanted to do something daily for the days leading up to my birthday, but not something that I ordinarily do. A few years ago a friend gave me a box of 200 milk filters, they are about 4 1/2" in diameter and feel like a heavy non woven interfacing.

They have been sitting around mostly unused just like many of my art supplies, so the plan is to use them and other stuff I have. My rules for this are; do one daily and use something I already have to change it. I've made a list of things to do, there's about 30 things on the list so there may be some repeated techniques, but no two will be alike. I have no expectations of creating a finished product from these, they are going into a basket as I make them. I just want to experiment and see what I can do. The first seven are done.

 #1 stapled, soaked in vinegar and left to dry over night

 #2 leftover printed TAP (transfer artist paper) from the weekly leaf

 #3 embossing fluid stamped with old type and embossing powder added

#4 leftover fusible scraps

#5 leftover dye soaked paper towel, hand stitching

 

 #6 painted with excess paint on a brayer then beaded

#7drawing with charcoal pencil, colored with pastels

It's been fun so far, I'm sure as I go along it will get a bit more challenging, which is a good thing I'm hoping it is enough to push me into doing something new.

Weekly Stitching

week #2 of the white on black set

Daily Stitching updates

Shades of Orange #296-#302

2017 Daily

I'm finding this one different from my usual. The others were individual squares so I do some stitching on it and I'm done. This one being one piece leaves me with no stopping point, so I find myself stitching more and longer than I normally do. I also find myself picking it up and adding more to it during the day, I want to keep working on it. Also since the fabric was printed very haphazardly not intentionally at all I keep studying it to see how I'm going to turn it into a cohesive whole. So far I'm working on one corner.

Later in the week I'll be linking up to "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"