Comments on: Creativity

By: Grannymar » Sláinte!

Grannymar » Sláinte! — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:01:17 +0000

[...] from within I heard a voice say: “Stick with what you know!” I leaned heavily on information from my past, it seemed to work. I pulled it off and was elated…. until…. Until I heard what was required at [...]

By: Grannymar » Art with My Needle ~ Week 38

Grannymar » Art with My Needle ~ Week 38 — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:34:50 +0000

[...] hold the complaints and the worries about the carpet! The sample above goes way back to the time when I was experimenting with paints and fabrics. The bottle of ink I was using tipped by accident so I grabbed what ever I had close to hand to [...]

By: Grannymar » Art

Grannymar » Art — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:01:06 +0000

[...] with My Needle. That series came about from my very first post for the LBC on 10th July 2009 - Creativity, chosen by [...]

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:43:53 +0000

Judith, I have tried the Deka silk paints on all types of fabric, but not specifically for quilt making.

By: Judith Hill

Judith Hill — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:24:23 +0000

Do you ever use Deka Dyes to create original coloured pure cotton fabric for quilt designs?

By: Grannymar » A Collection

Grannymar » A Collection — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:14:16 +0000

[...] my City & Guilds course. I mentioned it before and you saw the fruit of my later efforts in Creativity. This being the first project, I was still dipping my toes in the water. During year one, time [...]

By: Grannymar » The Healing Tree

Grannymar » The Healing Tree — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:04:51 +0000

[...] a week ago I had a blog post with trees and leaves at its heart. Today a tree is mentioned but from a completely different angle and [...]

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:50:14 +0000

Maz,

When the wedding is over and your studies complete, join a recreational crafts class. That way you have others to talk through ideas fire the enthusiasm and find new and different skills to work on.

I found that having a regular class made me work, no way was I going along with nothing to show for my time between classes.

Most important of all ENJOY!

By: Maz

Maz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:52 +0000

That’s an awesome craft project Grannymar, I love autumnal colours too. Not just a creative project either, there were a lot of practical skills involved too. My list of skills to learn and crafts to master is so long at this stage I get a fright every so often at the thought that I just might not get time to do them all!!!

By: Grannymar

Grannymar — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:59:53 +0000

@Ashok - Some people use a pen, the stitches are my words.

@Baino - I enjoyed making clothes for Elly when she was small. I did upgrade my sewing machine when I started that course. It still serves me well and I treat it to an annual service… just like the car. I still don’t have an ‘overlocker’.

@Jean - To me it is just a hobby.

@Judy - Re-using the top for Elly was pure chance. She had wanted me to make the outfit and had no idea for a style. I suggested she try it on, only to find out if she would be comfortable with uncovered shoulders…. Once she put it on, she loved it and then began the- could you make….?

@Maria - I enjoyed your post about the tie-dying project with your granddaughter. The wonderful aspect about the course I did was that we had to learn every technique and then how to break the rules for each one.

Your school sewing experience mirrors mine. I have decided that I was a late developer. My first sewing machine arrived the day after I left school and it opened a door for me in the same way that my computer did many, many years later!

@Kate - I am sure you are blessed with other talents. If we all did the same things life would be very boring.