Halfway on the Seventy Days to 70 project

Today marks the halfway point for my Seventy days project with the milk filters. I must say so far this has been fun and I've had no problem coming up with ideas. Some I'm real happy with, others I wonder what I was thinking, but the important part is that I did something that day.

#29-35

 #29 metallic paint onWonderUnder, fused to hand painted fabric,

fused to the milk filter, embroidery stitches

 #30 Stencil and mask used with Shiva paintstik, outlined with identipen

 #31 Painted with liquid acrylics, embellished with tyvek beads

 #32 Painted with acrylic, embellished with shisha mirror and hand embroidery

 #33 Gelli printed hand with a mask, colored in with a sharpie

#34 Caron D'ache Neocolor ll water soluble crayon 

#35 Dynaflow paint, free motion machine stitched

Weekly Stitching, The Five Universal Shapes

Week#6

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Shades of Orange #324-330

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Lots of blue french knots this week

I've finished a couple of my knitting projects, remembered to take a picture of the cowl, maybe the socks next week.

I love the cowl, the wrinkles on the neck not so much. The cowl is made from  alpaca, silk and merino wool yarn and is incredibly soft and warm.

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

Week #4, Seventy days to 70

Seventy Days to 70 #22-28

 #22 rust and tea stained, french knots of hand dyed pearl cotton

 #23 paint chip mosaic

 #24 Dimensional flowers

 #25 Hand dyed silk organza, layered and fused

 #26 Pentel pastel dye sticks

#27 tea bag papers and tags collaged

#28 lutrador, painted, cut with heat tool, fused ,stitched with pearl cotton

This week I finally started quilting the piece I cut and reassembled back in December, the original is here.

I'm working on all the white sections now.

Universal signs, Weekly stitching #5

The first five done

The next set will be on these pieces, leftovers of the print table cover that was used for my voice pieces.

Daily Stitching updates

Shades of Orange #317-323

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In other news our several feet of snow is still here but the main streets in town are now drivable so it is a bit easier to get around. The side streets, like in front of our house are thick layers of rutted ice, driving on them is a challenge.

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

Week #3, Seventy days to 70

Well, last week I complained about the cold, it has "warmed" up since then, today is in the low 30"s. My complaint this week is the extra foot and a half of snow we received. Because there were several feet of snow on rooftops we had to have our garage/studio shoveled off. Unfortunately there's no place left to put the snow. This is how the access to the garage and studio looked as they were starting to shovel.

Here's what the backside looked like after it was shoveled. My car is inside behind the snow.

Yesterday we had some heavy equipment and dump truck arrive to get rid of some, and Don shoveled the rest. Today I can get the car out! The snow has caused several collapsed buildings, including our only grocery store.

 Seventy Days to 70 #15 - 21

 #15 Faux metal patina with acrylic paints

 #16 Watercolor background with foil added

 #17 Collage of recycled security envelopes

 #18 Crayola fabric transfer crayons, happiness stencil

 #19 chain stitch in hand dyed pearl cotton

 #20 Deka transfer paints

#21 handmade newspaper yarn couched with pearl cotton

I'm finding that its good to get out old supplies, the Deka transfer paint was so old that it was completely dried up. Fortunately the papers that I had painted were still usable. For those that are unfamiliar with these paints; they are painted onto paper then ironed onto a synthetic fabric to transfer the color.

The faux metal patina paints were not in much better condition. So I'm tossing a lot, which is a good thing.

Weekly Stitching #4 The five universal shapes

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 Shades of orange #310-316

2017 Daily stitching

I'll be linking up with "Off the Wall Friday" and "Slow Sunday Stitching"