A little art

I've been playing a little bit with watercolor painting off and on recently.  I've posted at least one watercolor project before.  Today I decided to try the new watercolor pencils that I bought the other day.  As a general rule, I tend to be a perfectionist, so watercolor is not an obvious medium for me.  But the goal is to get outside of my comfort zone and do something a little freer.  As you can probably tell, I haven't reached that goal yet.  I still tend to be very rigid with my work.  I think it looks nice, but it's not exactly what I'd call free.  The watercolor pencils are good for detail, so that's good for my more exacting side.

This is a sketch that I drew from a photo of my oldest granddaughter.  I think it turned out pretty good and recognizable from the original photograph. Here is the original photograph that I was working from.

Butterfly Garden

I finished the binding on this one two weeks ago, but I just got the label attached and a picture made.  I've been so behind on things lately!  I decided to name it Butterfly Garden for a couple of reasons.  One, it has both butterfly fabric and flower fabric.  Two, the fabric line is called Tea House and my tea house has plants around it that are supposed to attract butterflies, and at times they actually do.

It is nice to actually be able to call something a finished product.  It seems like it's been a while since I got to do that!

Vintage Christmas blocks for April

 

I got them finished in time! I don't know if anyone will notice or not, but decided to make the gingerbread house a little simpler than the directions called for. I really felt like the original design was more intricate than it needed to be. I'm fine with my door not having a window in it and my window not having a frame around it. Oh, and I also omitted the sidewalk. It still looks plenty enough like a gingerbread house to me.

Baby Doll quilt top

I've been so busy lately that it took me almost a month to get around to adding the borders to the baby doll block, and some of the pieces were already cut!  Oh well, at least it's done now.  Unfortunately I have three blocks to make for this month's Moda class and very little time to do it in.  Obviously sewing hasn't been much of a priority lately.  I'm sure I can get them done if I make it a priority to do so.