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fetching fibers finding color in work life fetching fibers finding color in work life love grows march 4 2009 www flickr com photos mizdenise 3334780710 sizes o unusual for me to use a heart motif in my artwork yet during a 5 week period in jan feb my husband and i celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary my birthday and valentine s day so thoughts of our lives together come naturally i was mostly content with my single life and lived alone for almost a decade although i dated i ultimately controlled my own life in the months before meeting my husband my life changed dramatically altering my views on the world and on marriage shortly thereafter i met my husband although we were acquaintances for a number of months before dating our relationship seemed to burst forth almost fully formed we married within 7 months of our first date over the years our relationship has grown and changed and we have grown and changed with it now almost 20 years later we approach an empty nest and i can see that our relationship will change again yet i am hopeful looking forward to this next stage in the relationship and the changes to come knowing that we will be stronger and better because we face them together yes sounds sappy i know but i know of no other way to describe what i know to be true this month i experimented with my caran d ache neocolor ii watercolor pastels on cloth before coming up with the final background i tried a number of different fabrics and brushes in the end i decided that my design was too finely detailed for this medium it is better for larger surfaces or those where lots of blending is desired i do love the range of colors in my set of 15 pastels and will use them again with a different background design perhaps i will also try them with a glue gel resist as described in the jan feb quilting arts magazine once again i learned that i should have gone with my first idea though i drew out other ideas and sampled other techniques in the end i came back to the one that popped into my head initially hopefully i will grow more comfortable with following my initial instincts however in my own defense however i was missing a crucial color for this piece until i found it in a beaded garden ornament in a closeout store once that color bead was secure i was off and running with the piece i d set aside earlier in the month posted in bjp 11 comments vision or memories march 4 2009 last month i allowed my beads to direct their placement and ended up with a pretty blue flower the previous owners of our house planted daffodils but we rarely see them because they are near our basketball goal and get trampled early on this year they ve bloomed in all their glory with quite a surprise for me as their shape is remarkably similar to january s blue flower daffodils have always been a favorite of mine but these are not the variety that i m used to seeing perhaps i remembered what they looked like from years gone by but i thought i d share them with you as well posted in bjp leave a comment january bjp piece january 23 2009 here s my january bjp piece nothing like i expected but one of my favorites i was heavily inspired by beadwork and advice i ve seen on the web particularly letting the beads speak for themselves and sewing one bead at a time without a preplanned design in my temporarily stalled november brown piece i placed several focal beads around the background fabric and then added beads to fill in the gaps here i started with the center button and worked outwards as i dropped two or three beads of each prospective type and shade on the piece and moved them around until their placement spoke to me the beads themself chose the flower design i don t see much symbolism here the color was chosen because it was the largest in my stash and the large flower center resulted from trying to disguise the look of the button underneath for january i had several goals use a single color group with one or more buttons use items from my stash and let the beads speak to me as i stitched one bead at a time i expected to end up with an abstract heavily encrusted piece it was challenging to stick to my original goals i kept wanting to branch off to other ideas and add other colors i am proud of the final project and of the discipline it took to stick to my plan i tried to make notes of the other ideas so that i might use them on other projects i hope you like it as well here s a view from the side showing the height of the flower center a tube bead on t op of the original button with seed beads on the threads coming out of the top posted in bjp 15 comments lydia totes october 29 2008 much of my studio time for oct and nov is being used to sew over 20 tote bags for the lydia project which gives them to women with cancer to take with them to their doctors appointments treatments to remind them that they are not alone i also have a group of ladies that i send cards notes to each month while they are fighting their cancer most importantly i keep these ladies in my thoughts and prayers throughout the month to learn more about this great outreach to women with cancer or to request a tote for yourself or someone you know with cancer see the lydia project website i m excited to start my new online class sumptuous surfaces taught by sharon boggon on joggles it s just started today so if you hurry you may be able to jump right in since the focus of this course is on embroidery my next bjp piece may be fewer beads but all your nice comments about my october ladybug leaves me speechless thank you soo much for your kind words hopefully i ll have time to get to all of your sites soon posted in uncategorized leave a comment october bjp page october 24 2008 here s my october bjp after a false start earlier this month i went back to my list of goals guidelines for the year and started over i knew i wanted to try a more encrusted beading this month but was restricted somewhat by the size of my stash on hand i decided to look for a bold design from one of the clip art images i d collected over the years i drew the final design on tracing paper and transfered the pattern to stiffy felt coloring the design with sharpie permament markers as i stitched i realized that the leaf image looked better stitched as a negative space the colors of the picture are a little off but i m pleased with the finished page and hope you like it posted in bjp 17 comments more progress october 8 2008 posted in projects leave a comment updated sept pictures october 8 2008 i made two decisions first i will make two pieces per month one more of a studio journal art technique type the other more a journal piece intuitive and reflective of my current thoughts and life second i decided to finish the two sept pieces the sequin one i added a beaded edge with black irridescent beads the pictre is not as sparkly as the reality i like the effect a lot but have decided to wait to finish with the final display ntil the end i am working on a temporary display setup and will share that when it is ready added beaded edges the second piece which has more of a journal like approach needed more in order to display on the wall of my house i enlarged the piece to 3 5 5 by mounting the smaller piece on a coordinating fabric and put it into a frame that went with it framed ready to hang in a place of honor posted in bjp isolated kaleidoscope shapes 9 comments been busy stitching september 12 2008 my first sept bjp piece design from the outline of an image created using the online kaleidoscope tool at www krazydad com kaleido an extension of a project begun during my recent studio journal class with sharon boggon more journal like bjp this piece symbolizes the way that health concerns have cut a wide swath across my life plans learning through my faith that there is a plan and a purpose even in this thing that seems so burdensome on its own i am learning ways these trials can also bring beauty and pleasure in my life and to those around me a finally finished ufo tags bjp posted in bjp projects 9 comments mounting finishing bjp pieces ideas september 9 2008 i happened across a link i wanted to share with some cool suggestions on mounting fiber collages that may change my bjp plans as it has opened up some new possibilities and ideas for finishing my bjp pieces a call for entries has gone out for next year s fiberarts for a cause project collage mania 2009 all materials are acceptable but collages must contain some fiber paper fabric or other fibrous material there are no restrictions on content or style art quilts are of course acceptable all entries must measure or be finished to a size of 10 8 but they provide a faq on acceptable mounting options if your collage is not 10 8 by the way i did finish my first sept piece plus two more all different shapes and sizes however no pictures posted yet either plus the faq i ve linked to may change things altogether so i m really not very far along in the making a final choice in the size department i ll keep you posted tags bj planning tips posted in bjp leave a comment first project sept 08 september 4 2008 on sunday i couldn t settle down on a size or a subject for my first month s piece for bjp 08 despite my written goals and plan with so many choices with long term effects i felt anxious and fragmented it reminded me of a halloween costume i once wore in college that was simply a bunch of mismatched unusual garment elements as a whole it looked a bit like a traditional clown but i knew it reflected the variety of thoughts and convictions that were waging war within my heart remember kaleidoscopes from your childhood a bunch of colored bits and pieces in the bottom of a tube yet when you look into the tube those bits and pieces combine into a lovely picture well there is a highly addictive you ve been warned website that will take a photo and turn it into some of the most beautiful kaleidoscope images i had recently seen a piece of art that was a major sized collage of a bunch of smaller kaleidoscopes i considered simply sewing on a bunch of sequins as a reflection of my unsettled state oh dear my anxiety was picking back up again trying to reign in my anxiety i reminded myself that the bjp rules page specifically instructs us to measure your growth and success against your own work not the work of the other participants t hink of the bjp as a framework for you to explore and expand your own creative pathway my next step was to apply what i d learned from david allen s book getting things done what is the successful outcome of this month s project how will i know that i have finished the project in a way that i will be pleased with it looking again at my goals and the list of similar goals from fellow bjp participant kquiltybee my confidence returned the next step was to look at the subject list i d made a list of subjects i wanted to explore as potential series i d thought about exploring these subjects in a variety of mediums techniques and had committed to using these subjects in in my bjp pieces to my surprise on the list was something called isolated kaleidoscope shapes project i ll describe the project idea more fully in the next post at the end of my last post i had noted my concern that working from a list of subjects would somehow not fit the idea of the bjp as a monthly visual journal but decided to follow my gut instinct that my idea would somehow work iteself out how interesting to recognize that the very first subject i chose is from my original list yet at the same time reflects in a visual way something that is going on in my life at the present time a feeling of being fragmented and uncertain reassured that even my bits and pieces could come together into something of beauty i pulled out my studio journal and started to work tags bjp08 planning subjectlist posted in bjp isolated kaleidoscope shapes subjectlist uncategorized leave a comment older entries bj bjp bjp08 blog planning projects studiojournal 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