Well it has been another busy couple of weeks at Spring Valley Designs. I rather belatedly realized that my next teaching contract was for the weekend after the Memorial Day Weekend and I hadn't even started kitting. Oh, and we were out of town over the holiday! The class was supposed to be easy peasy because it was a design I did years ago and stitched on commercially available stitch cards. Or so I thought! They stopped making the particular stitch cards a few years back (nobody consulted me about this LOL) and discontinued all of their products earlier this year. So, after a bit of grumbling, I designed a new stitch card. And my poor husband had to spend a couple of evenings after work lasering them for me. But everything came together and the class went well.
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| This is the new needlebook |
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| California Poppies |
And this past weekend I took a
Catherine Jordan workshop that I have been wanting to do for ages but the stars had not aligned before. It was everything I had hoped for and I had a fabulous time with great people and an excellent teacher.
She's a CZT too with basic Zentangle classes as well as some creative classes combining Zentangle and stitching.
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| My Finished Forest |
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| Painted Backgrounds For Future Forests |
This week's
Diva Challenge was to take inspiration from the
Beads of Courage, the Color Run, or whatever gives you Courage. The Diva mentioned the #HeftyHack technique for coloring a background so I had to give it a shot. There were some very old Primacolor Scholar markers kicking around my studio so I used those. And when I say old, I mean over 10 years old. One of the purples has turned brown! But they were useful for this project and I was happy with the resulting background. I chose Helix since the pattern already looks like a string of beads and tangled away.
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| Tile Before Tangling |
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| Tangle Used: Helix |
I'm looking to forward to seeing what other people have done with this challenge.
