Time flies with The 100 Day Project. It's already a third of the way to the 100th day.
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| Textile Collage #1, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
Project 1: 100 Days of Textile Collage and Stitch
I've just about finished six pages of textile collages for a stitch book. So, I'm averaging about 5 days for each page. With each composition, the basic stitches at the commencement give way to more complexity and depth in a collage as each day passes.
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| First day (left) and Fifth day (right) of a textile and stitch collage. |
Depending on the time available each day (or how tired I am after work), a few or several stitches are added to a composition. As one would expect, I tend to make more progress on weekends.
These are close-up photos of the collages so far.
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| Textile Collage #2, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
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| Textile Collage #3, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
The collages definitely got more dimensional after pulling and using bits from old knitting swatches and novelty yarn leftovers.
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| Textile Collage #4, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
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| Textile Collage #5, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
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| Textile Collage #6, The 100 Day Project 2023. |
Project 2: 100 Days of Hand Lettering
My second project is 100 Days of Hand Lettering. I'm working through the exercises in "Love your [imperfect] Letters" with Willa Wanders.
Sometimes pages are filled with drills of strokes, letters, or alphabets. Finding pangrams made practicing more interesting.
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| Practicing hand lettering using pangrams. |
Then I started lettering excerpts from travel brochures and magazines. Quotes and phrases give the lettering more meaning.
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| Phrases from a Threads magazine article. |
This exercise explores "faux calligraphy" by adding extra weight to the down strokes of a letter.
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| Hand lettering practice. |
On occasion, I'll hand letter a quote in my new Junk Journal.
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| Hand lettering in my Junk Journal. |
The hand lettering workshop has been very thorough and insightful. We've covered roman letterforms, creating a signature alphabet, serifs, faux calligraphy, script lettering and other lettering concepts.
I am enjoying both of my 100 Days Projects for 2023. The 100 Day Project is a good motivator to learn something new through a daily practice.
This quote that sums it up.
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| Motivation gets you started... Habit keeps you going. |
