AMANDA'S BASKETS: FALL? & PROJECT 365 SOMETHING CHALLENGE UPDATE

Monday, May 21, 2018

FALL? & PROJECT 365 SOMETHING CHALLENGE UPDATE

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This weekend was cold, dark and rainy. I stopped at one lake for an hour of fishing and this is what it looked like...dark and cloudy but the rain had stopped for a few moments...

Trying to stay up-to-date, here are last week's Project 365 Something challenge. I am still doing very quick sketches (by the way, I hear thunder right now!!!)

My challenge to myself is to draw something beginning to end within five minutes or less.

For some reason, fall has been on my mind. So first I decided to try some needle felting. Here's my first attempt...

This was done in a green felt background. No matter how much orange roving I added, it just was not reading orange, so I tried something a bit different...orange thread!

I free-motion stitched it with, what else, gold!

It still wasn't reading orange enough for me, so I began again, this time felting on a piece of orange felt. It wasn't working enough, so I added the orange thread and free-motion stitched with gold.

Both of these felted pieces are quite thick so I have decided to put them aside for a bit. I think I will probably cut them into leaf shapes and add them to something...just don't know what.

Well, I was still thinking fall, so I began to play with fall fabrics, including fringing them. After several hours, this is what I created...

As you can see, I am really into using fringed thread. I used it on the light color fabric, free-motion stitching with gold...

For the outer edge, I tried cutting the fringed thread and free-motion stitched after adding orange thread

The thread I used for the free-motion stitching and leaf patterns is really black although it looks like blue in the above photo.

I do like the finished creation which will be attached to a 12 by 12 inch canvass.

Can you believe that next weekend is Memorial Day Weekend? I can't believe how fast days are going...week and months also.

Hope you are enjoying your days, weeks and months...

Thanks for visiting my blog...

Talk with you tomorrow...

CRAFTING IDEAS

I am always looking for a small piece of paper to write down something which will later be disposed of. I decided to use some of the scrap paper of which I have a ton. I mostly use the paper for glueing projects. I decided to cut the paper into a small size. (Six pieces from a piece of copy paper.). But just having them sitting on my desk would get messy without a container. So, using a cardboard box, I cut it down to size and using a hot glue gun I glued the ends together. Using a picture from a magazine cut into pieces and stick craft glue, I glued the pieces to the box inside and out. I also used some decorative tape for the outside edges. And to finish the top corners which were not covered, I used straight pins with colorful tops. Looks nice and works well.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So in looking over your habits what did you find? Some popular good habits folks have are: Meditation, exercise, journal writing, flossing, reading and walking up early. Some not so great habits included smoking, saying yes, swearing, tolerating folks, not sleeping enough, always complaining and constantly making excuses. Do you have more good habits or more bad habits? Is it time to change? If so, start with the easiest bad habit to change, not the hardest. This will give the best chance of success. Decide on the best way for you to change your habit. Worry too much? Set a time to worry and then stop. You may have to stop yourself several times at the beginning but keep it up and you will worry less. Or, alternatively, write the worry down as well as options to stop the problem. Just figure out which way to stop is best for you.