Tag: art

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Making Art Again

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I decided I would move anything blocking , my embroidery machine, load the patterns I purchased onto the USB drive, and do some machine embroidery.

One of the sets of patterns I bought was a set for free-standing-lace earrings. I decided this was a small enough and easy enough project that I could manage. I still can’t put more than 1/2 my weight onto my Erector Set Foot. But I can take a shower by myself and I can use the Big Girl Toilet rather than the potty chair. I’m going for physical therapy and I can’t wait until I can do things again – like drive and bake.

I need to soak these in warm water so the water soluble stabilizer disappears. Then, I need to hope I can get near the tool box with my earring findings so I can turn these into earrings.

This was going to be a pair of earrings, but I ran into difficulty making the second one. So it’s a pendant.

I decided to take a little walk to see how the irises are coming along. I had to fold up the walker to get it out of the sliding glass door. Then, I needed to navigate around rocks, art and plants to get to the iris. All that, and the new iris aren’t blooming yet. Last fall, I happened to be at the mall when the local iris society had a sale.

Here’s one of the irises we’ve had blooming since we moved in 24 years ago.

I’ve had a couple Spoonflower sales this week. I wish I could see what people make from fabric printed with my designs.

Passover starts at sundown tomorrow (April 12) when we celebrate freedom. May you have a joyous, enlightening Passover.

I’m linking with Nina Marie here: https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com

My store, Deb Thuman Art, is here: http://www.DebThumanArt.com

My Spoonflower shop is here: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/deb_thuman

Posted in Photography, Quilts

The cure for boredom? Be a multi-media artist.

Posted on by debthumanblog

I find that the more art toys I play with, the more ideas I have. At the moment, I’m working on photography and a quilt. They seem to feed into each other. This morning, I spent quality time taking one photograph…..

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and seeing the different ways I could play with it using special effects.

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Light leaks.

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Playing with texture and color. I think there’s a quilt in here somewhere.

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An effect called tiny planet. There might be a jewelry design in there.

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Just for fun. The bottom one reminds me of the traditional quilt pattern Tumbling Blocks. The others make me think about what I could do with fabric and shape.

I’ve been working on the bipolar quilt, and I came up with an idea for a series of self portraits. I’m not finished with the bipolar quilt, but I did get the quilt sandwich put together and started doing hand quilting.

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I haven’t quite decided how to quilt the spaces between the leaves, but I’m toying with the notion of quilting leaf outlines using a metallic thread.

Some of the leaves I’ve finished embellishing since I last posted. img_5757img_5755img_5753

The tentative working title is: Assorted Parts of an Unintegrated Whole. Like so much of my work, this quilt is autobiographical.

Last week while we were in Albuquerque, NM, Jim and I met up with Rachael and Amir Roggel. Rachael is part of the International Jewish Quilters list. We had lunch, good conversation and showed each other our latest work. Afterward, Jim and I went to Quilts Ole in Corrales, NM. They had fat quarters on sale. It would have been rude not to buy fat quarters on sale. So I bought some. I was picking out colors for the sky and soil for the for real version of Tree of Life. I’ve been looking at landscape photos on the Digital Photography School Facebook page and paying particular attention to the sky in those photographs. I’m now having ideas for how to do the sky and soil and thinking about changing how I usually put things together.

Once again, I have a surplus of ideas and not enough time to work on all of them.

I’m linking with Nina Marie. Click here to see her work and the work of other terrific artists.