Princess Bubbles Creates

A few weeks ago I did an online collage challenge.  I quite enjoyed it and have been wanting to do some more.  Combining fabric, thread and paper is a lot of fun.  I felt the need to trap a butterfly under thread.  This week has been tough.  I kind of hit a wall.  I know that being trapped at home is not the end of the world so my found word poetry on this piece has a positive outlook.  I simply won't let myself go down a dark hole but I do need to acknowledge my feelings.  I am leaning towards doing a collage a week and putting them all together into a fabric book. I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

This is a fun piece for me as it is all experimentation.  The background is a mandala that turned out rather PINK.  I am working at taming that.  I made a colour copy of one of my coffee filter mandalas. I reduced it to about half size and adhered it to fusible interfacing and applied it to the centre of this piece.  I like the way this is coming and plan to add beads and stitch. I am linking to https://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ https://www.quiltfabrication.com/

I have managed to get add some stitches to this piece.  Slow stitching indeed.  A few days ago I decided I simply must find more time to express myself with stitch.  I NEED to feel more productive.  Helping look after my almost three-year-old granddaughter is a privilege, joy, taxing and oh so much more.  I know it is special but it does not feel productive to me.  At least not art-wise.  I have gathered my stitching projects into one pile and committed to adding a little bit of stitching to each one of them every day if possible.  I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

There is still a bit of room on this piece to add some stitching.  Not much mind you.  It is a bright and cheerful piece that gives me a lot of pleasure to stitching onto it.  I am in no rush to finish it as I don't really know its end purpose.  Does it have to have a purpose other than my pleasure of stitching? I am linking to http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/ https://wendysquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/

I love  Maggie Grey  and own many of her books.  Her mixed media approach to stitch is really inspiring.  I have drifted away from that for the last while and would like to return to it. Maggie posted a challenge on her blog and this is my start at that challenge.  I wanted to incorporate collage as I have been listening to  The Jealous Curator  podcast.  I have dabbled with collage over the years and feel like some of my textile work is a collage.  So this is a mandala collage with found poetry.  Stitch still needs to be added to it but I need to back it with fusible interfacing before I can start stitching.  I used black Brusho powder on a coffee filter for the base.  I love the way the black breaks out into different colours when wet. I am linking to https://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/ https://www.quiltfabrication.com/

I am still loving doing my mandala meditations.  I have been posting one a day on Instagram @angelagrasse  This is one of my favourites.  I do love analogous colours.  I also push myself to use colour combinations that are analogous or even my favourite colours.  It is good to get out of the box. 

This crazy piece became unearthed this week.  I decided to add more hand stitching to it.  I honestly have no idea where this one is going but I do want to keep working on it.  I am linking to https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/