Take It Further Challenge

This challenge grew out of the Take a stitch Tuesday challenge run in 2007. “Take it Further ” aims to apply textile technique skills to design. The challenge will run all year in 2008.On the 1st of each month Sharon will post key concept and the challenge will be to take the idea, develop it and push it towards a resolved design during the month. In other words you interpret the idea and apply it to fiber.
For those that don’t like themes Sharon will post a colour scheme or a design element like a shape, to develop into a resolved design. This means every month there will be two options. If you don’t like the concept you can work the colour scheme or if you don’t like the colour scheme you can work with the concept. Or you can work with both.
The actual thing you design can be any thing you like in any medium or format you choose. It can be a crazy quilt block, a postcard, a journal quilt, a piece of embroidery, a sampler, a fabric book page or whatever sparks your imagination. It can also be visual journal work. In other words pages spreads of designs worked in a visual journal will be seen as a valid entry and included as one of the formats acceptable for the challenge.
Anyone interested in this challenge, just click on the link to the left entitled Take it Further Challenge,,click on Sharon's name and she will tell you all about it. I believe I am going to try the colour scheme one. Have fun!

Alley Cat Round Robin

Back in April I started my first ever round robin. Above is the block I sent out for the others to work on. Below is my finished block. I love this block ladies,,,you all did a fantastic job. Thank you so much. I can't wait to see what my other block looks like.

Color wheels

I finally got my color wheels finished,,got my dark, mediums and lights, they turned out really good . Next I will be doing color wheels with black, brown, and grey added to them.

After I done my light color wheel, I decided to try some shibori using the light colors. I was pleased with how it turned out.