Post-Crafts Day

Hello again! After Crafts Day, I left out all the paints and papers and things to inspire me to keep being creative (okay, and to avoid having to tidy up, too!). I found some interesting ideas in the latest Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine, and also in a book called Collage Unleashed by Traci Bautista and decided to to try them out. Here are pictures of some of my attempts. (And, if you're wondering what I'm going to do with all these pieces ... well, so am I!!)

First, here's another "mosaic" of inchies from Crafts Day:




Here are some piles of all the pieces I made! (By the way, they are all quite small - mostly postcard size.)






And a few of my favourites:




These feel a bit "Asian" to me. I think I might try to scan some of them, print them out on fabric and turn them into little quiltlets.



These two are a bit bigger (about 9"x12", I think):




After I got all that painting out of my system, I decided to do some quilting! Here are a couple of the pieces I've laid out (not sewn yet). It kind of surprised me to realize how brightly-coloured they are - that's not my usual style!!

The first piece is an attempt to use some of the sunflower fabric I've been accumulating for the past couple of years. The second one is based on an idea from Traci Bautista's book: it uses lots of randomly cut or torn strips. I like the way it came out! It might be fun to cut up into postcards or Artist Trading Cards.



So that's what I've been up to lately! I think my next project will be to get out and take some photographs. But it's going to have to warm up a bit first!!

Thanks for stopping by!