Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

What a coincidence! I finished Session 3 of my Longhorn appliqué wall hanging and WordPress chose “Create” as this week’s photo challenge. And here he is, Dippity-Do after Session 3, where I finished the Longhorn body. I see that I need to tweak one of his back legs, where it looks like a pirate’s peg leg.

The body of an applique, a Texas Longhorn

The headless Longhorn

I still have to arrange the grass, sky and clouds. The pattern is by Susan Cranshaw.

The Longhorn applique, all pieces shown together

Now he has a head and horns!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

Shelly’s Fabric Bowl

This is my gift to Shelly for her birthday: I sewed a fabric bowl in her favorite colors (red, black and white). Once I have a gift ready, I’m in a hurry to give to the recipient, so she got it a couple of weeks early. Shelly and I were Muddy Buddy buddies in 2008 and a few days ago I posted a photo of us after we crossed the finish line/mud pit.

Shelly's birthday present: a fabric bowl in red, white and black fabrics

Shelly’s birthday present

Shelly's fabric bowl with bananas to show size

Yes, we have bananas!

Shelly's fabric bowl wrapped in fabric as a gift

All wrapped up!

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Here are some bananas in the bowl, so you can get a sense of its size.
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I always use fabric as the wrapping for Shelly’s gift and that becomes part of the gift. I put a paper towel roll (not bananas) standing up in the bowl, to disguise the shape until she unwrapped it.

Zentangle Class

From nothing to something, that’s what art is. Yesterday I drove to New Braunfels and took a Zentangle class with my friend Kathleen and her husband C.E. I learned new designs as well as a couple of ways to add color. Here’s an example of my “nothing to something.” Thanks to the instructor Michelle Robinson, CZT, a good time was had by all.

A blank, white Zentangle tile

All that potential!

A white Zentangle tile, with color added

Time for some Zentangles!

A Zentangle tile, with color and Zentangles

All dressed up!

A blank, black Zentangle tile

Black is the new black.

A black Zentangle tile with white Zentangles

Good contrast.

Longhorn, Session 2

Ticka and I worked on our longhorn appliques last weekend. My longhorn, Dippity-Do, now has ears, eyes and a mouth. After session two, he’s starting to look like a longhorn. Here’s what he looked like after Session 1.

Longhorn applique, head finished

I can see clearly now!

I’ve nicknamed Ticka’s longhorn “Freckles.” Here’s Freckles and Dippity-Do next to each other. Ticka actually finished her longhorn body in session two and will start working on the background next time. My next step is to put together the longhorn body.

Two longhorn applique heads, one with freckles, one without

Freckles and Dippity-Do