Create Daily 2024 tracker: Q3 is complete

Three-quarters of 2024 have passed as we say “goodbye” to September. On October 1, I’ll begin filling in the last diagram of My Create Daily tracker.

Create Daily 2024 tracker, September 30.

During the last week of the month, the squares were colored with four different colors—each representing a different creative activity. While traveling, my take-along project is hand knitting.

I’ve also been active in a new sketchbook with exercises from the Sketchbook Revival online workshop. This page was nature journaling and contour drawings with Melinda Nakagawa.

Sketchbook page: Nature journaling and contour drawings.

On the weekend, I made a thread sampler stitch-out with Scanfil Organic Threads for one of my customers. It shows examples of free-motion quilting, hand quilting, hand embroidery, and machine decorative stitching with Scanfil’s 100% long staple organic cotton threads; 50wt and 30 wt.

Thread sampler detail: free-motion quilting, hand stitching, decorative machine stitching.

The sample was improvisationally pieced with American Made Brand [AMB] solids from Clothworks. The binding is from the 2.5” Edition collection by Art Gallery Fabrics.

Scanfil thread sampler, 8” x 10.5”.

And I rounded out the last day of September with slow stitch mending. It’s been a colorful and productive month. 

Welcome October!

Design for Quilters: program starts tonight

Get ready to flex and tone those right brain muscles! At the Choo Choo Quilters guild meeting tonight, I'll be kicking off the 2011 program on design fundamentals for quiltmakers. I've teamed up with three other talented (and crazy!) women for this year-long program we're calling "Inspirational Quilting." We'll be covering the elements and principles of design through exercises, readings and group critiques.
 
The idea was conceived in the fall of 2010 and we researched several potential "textbooks" for the program. We're excited about using "Fearless Design for Every Quilter" by Lorraine Torrence and Jean B. Mills as our guide. In planning out the lessons, there were a few topics we wanted to include or cover in more depth. So, we'll also be incorporating exercises and group activities from other resources (bonus content!).

Tonight's lesson, which I will be presenting, is called, "Learning to See Again." I've got some contour drawing and other right-brain stimulus planned. I've pulled out my tackle box and sharpened all my B and H drawing pencils. What fun to be using them again!