Art, Craft and Needlework, March, 2016

[Harriet]

How will you find time for your March creativity? What are the plans that will get your creative juices flowing?

In February
Elizabeth bought baby sweater buttons, planned Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle weapons & corrected a Barbie pattern.
Nancy showed her knitting class her pink variegated sweater, and washed wool from a Jacob's sheep* and others.
BookSaver bought painter's canvas after learning it can back cotton fabrics for aprons. She avoided some purchases!
Twins' Mom has been scheduling some stamping time and making greeting cards.
Harriet started on a new wall-hanging and bought a see-through ruler.

* Just had to look this up! Here are some Jacob's sheep. Like Nancy said, both black and white in the same fleece. Did NOT know this breed.

[Nancy]

Working on green and white hot pads this month. Also a colorful stash buster crochet triangle shaped prayer shawl is so much fun to do I cannot put it down!

Traded for a weaving bench for my floor loom. I need to get a table moved upstairs for my table loom. Gearing up for some weaving. Excited about that!

[Harriet]

Nancy you have had so much enjoyment from your creativity lately!

Dd17 and I went to fabric store for her embroidery projects. The teacher had had them watercolor a freeform painting, trying NOT to include specific images. Then at the next class they tried to "see" images in the dried painting. Somehow, teacher transferred the paintings to cloth without hurting the original. Now they are to embroider and embellish these cloth artworks, bringing out the images they think they see.

She couldn't bring the artwork home, so she pulled up a photo of it on her phone. We chose floss colors by arranging them around the phone, lying on a table.

[Nancy]

I have been having fun crocheting a triangular shaped shawl it is about 3/4 the ths of the way done now turning out well also. A great stash buster
project.

[Elizabeth]

This is not my creation, but I am proud of it. DD14 did this animal for a science project. It is a combination of attributes from a monkey, tiger, lion, and Siberian husky. She freehand crocheted it. (In other words - no pattern used).

Science Project.jpg

[Elizabeth]

This is my work: the baby shower item for CareNet crisis pregnancy center. Works for boy or girl.
The sweater used a free Lion Brand pattern:

sweater.jpg

The hat I created myself:
(The colors don't look the same in this picture, but it is the same yarn. The other pictures give a better idea of color.)

hat.jpg

I was hoping to have enough left for a scarf or neckwarmer. I did not, so we have a burp rag:

burp rag.jpg

[Elizabeth]

And here it is wrapped up in a nice fancy package:

package.jpg

[Nancy]

I have completed all but one of the sage green dish clothes this other one will be my take along project for today's meeting.

[Harriet]

Elizabeth, those photos are fun. The stuffed animal is interesting, but also cute in itself. Dd will cherish that memory someday. Great job on the gift for someone's baby.

Nancy, enjoy the take-along project.

Dd17 has extensive hand embroidery to accomplish by Wed. The problem with having a well-educated Art teacher who accepts the assignment to teach a class in Craft and Design is that the teacher may not have the experience to understand how extensive her own assignments are. She has chosen a stitching discipline that is time intensive, and assigned an elaborate, large project, when she evidently had no idea that this is the type of project an experienced person would plan to work on for months.

This is to be a sampler of varied hand-embroidery techniques but based on a watercolor image, finishing about 14x14 size (huge for an embroidery piece). And she wants the whole space filled with stitching - no open areas and no machine work. The only saving grace is that she did say she'd allow some space to be filled with applique. So far, none of the students have taken advantage of this idea (she didn't teach it at all), so I'm letting dd look through my fabrics in case she could use one or two, and I can certainly teach her how to fill in with some fabric.

[Nancy]

I worked on getting some weaving getting the reed threaded .