Progress -

Another set of blocks is sewn -

For my Upstairs/Downstairs - Gleaned - top -
Gleaned - © Carolyn Friedlander - Robert Kaufman -

This set has another one of those strips that fades out at the end -

So I stuck those two patches at the end of two of the blocks -

These colors play well together -

Hopefully they will play well with the rest of their friends - LOL - ;))

Then I decided to go through all of my pencils and markers -

And tossed the ones that were old - didn't work - dried up - etc. -

Later in the afternoon -

The FedEx guy brought me the tube of light gold paint that I ordered -

I didn't realize the tubes were so tiny!! -

Here it is sitting on top of a 3" x 5" index card -

Somehow I expected it to be the size of a travel-size toothpaste tube -

Not the giant tube of toothpaste - but at least the travel-size one -

Silly me - LOL - ;))

Then it was time for dinner -

And I had left overs from making the sushi last night -

But I was too lazy to bother with the nori (seaweed) -

And didn't want to spend the time to roll it -

So I made what I call "Lazy Sushi" -

It's got everything but the nori -

The sushi rice - imitation crab - cucumber - avocado -

All in a nice big bowl -

And boy - was it YUMMY!! -

Without all of the work - LOL - ;))

Then after dinner -

I "un-sewed" another set of strata segments -

Pressed them all nice and neat -

And put them on a cookie sheet - ready for the next step -

After I wrote up most of this post and scheduled it for the morning -

I played with my watercolors again -

I wanted to see if I could make those "Easy Flowers" - HERE -

Using my watercolor "pencils" instead of watercolor "paints" -

And I could -

They didn't come out half bad -

But they did come out a little "small" compared to the other two -

I tried to duplicate the paint colors as close as I could with the pencils -

The stems were much easier to draw with the pencil than the brush -

But I should have wet the paper first - then drawn the stem line -

That might have been a "cleaner" line -

This watercolor stuff is SO FUN!! -

I LOVE how I never quite know how it's going to come out -

I don't have the "precision" of an "artist" who paints with acrylics -

I have a tough time drawing a straight line with a ruler - LOL -

So this suits me just fine!! - ;))

I have learned to do one flower quickly -

Stop - and let the water do its thing as it dries -

Go on to the next flower -

And then the next -

Resisting the temptation to mess with them -

To basically "LEAF them alone" - LOL -

Do the stems -

Add the detail -

And it's done -

Twenty to thirty minutes - max -

MUCH faster than making a quilt - LOL - ;))

And now that I have the light gold paint tube -

Tomorrow I can play with adding the light gold "accent" dots to all three -

It should be fun to see what they look like then - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -