Wordless Wednesday - Break time!

Textile Art - New items

I recently created some new items for my Abigail Jayne Art shop.  I love working with textiles, trims and buttons, so this wrist cuff was a natural thing for me to do:

Great addition to that black outfit in your closet!  Listing

I also love hand embroidery and flowers!  I embroider while relaxing in front of the TV in the evenings, so this is the latest result of my creativity.  It is available in my shop.

Cosmos are some of my favorite bedding flowers!  Listing

And this new item is also newly listed in the Abigail Jayne Art Shop.

Like my model?  Listing

I carry kits for these necklaces in my Supply Shop, and I am sure that someone you know could probably do an awesome job of creating with one of my basic kits.  Add feathers, beads, trims, stitches, who knows what . . .????!!!!

What are you creating today?

Family Baby Quilt

Easter morning

Some time ago, I was asked to make a blanket and crib skirt for my newest grand baby, Emriella Abigail. (Em-ree-L-a)

Eldest Son, Don and family

I finished the blanket/quilt and I'm working on the three layer ruffled crib skirt.  My DIL, Shirley, picked out the fabrics -  she likes bright colors.  Their family picture on Easter is at the right.


Here is the result of the quilt!

Quilter friend, Ritha and I 

Everything is designed around the bright print 

Backing is soft flannel

Free motion quilted and trimmed with satin blanket binding

Free motion quilting continues the print design

Of course, a little tag "Made with love by Grandma"

Apple Blossom Time

Wednesday are devoted to Photography

Bee quick!  Not quick enough to get him in focus!

Tuesday's Textile Art

Welcome!  A new feature here  on Tuesdays:  Tuesday's Textile Art!  

Fray!  Fray to your heart's delight!

Part of my previously utilitarian persona was to have all loose ends tied up!  You know the old saying: "Everything in it's place and a place for everything".  In my sewing, this took the form of finished seams, and a tailored finish.  But, in allowing my inner creativity to emerge, I experimented with letting the ends stay loose! Even fraying them for a new effect!

Making this wrist cuff from an easily frayed satin fabric was a new venture for me.  And it is not cut on the straight grain of the fabric, either, as you can plainly see in the next photo.  Sewing students were always taught  to cut our pattern pieces on the straight grain of the fabric, unless we wanted to get stretch in our particular project.  But when one is doing art, textile art, especially a small venue project like a cuff that is quilted and stitched everywhere, one does not have to worry about the fabric stretching.  You can use the cross grain to enhance the fray process!  What fun breaking 'out of the box'!

I have had many comments on this cuff, since I added it to my shop.  You can see more pictures here.

What have you done creatively lately, that breaks all the rules and breaks "out of the box"?

a Basic Creative Person

Recently I rearranged my business and blogging life.  Most of my crafty business posts were in another blog, which I am now changing with a new URL, to an exclusively wholesale site for the promotion and sale of my custom logo aprons.  Thanks to all of you who have followed me on that blog for more than four years! (If you were a follower there, please consider following this blog--Thanks!)

Although I have had this blog since early in January 2011, it was basically devoted to my creative writing and my art.  But life has changed my focus and now I am revamping this blog to handle all of my art and craftiness!  I am a complex person much like this little pillow that I created to represent myself:

 I love many forms of art and many mediums with which to create--beads, buttons, lace, trims, embroidery, applique, patchwork, paper, watercolor, etc.  Basically I just love creating!  So this blog from here on will be all inclusive of my various interests.

Yes, there will still be displays of my art.  

Yes, there will be some creative writing, that is just who I am! 
I want to say authentic to myself.  (For my writing, check out the tab at the top of the home page for 'Small Stones'--short little creative writing bits, or-- for an ongoing story: 'Abby's Story'.)

So, on with the adventure!  Hope you will follow me to see what creative thing I am working on and hopefully, gain inspiration for your own creative endeavors!!!

Segue

Segue:  to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption, as a bridge.

Kendal Bridge - source 

This blog needs a segue since I have not posted here since last July and it will be back online on a regular basis on Monday April 21st.

Although I have been blogging during this time, in my two other blogs sites:  PruittCreations.blogspot.com and SabbaticalVenture.blogspot.com.
I frequently bounce between each blog from time to time depending on my current emphasis, as I have many interests.  As a segue here, from July to April,  you can see what I have been up to in my other sites, here and here and especially this post that tells the vision for my future blogging. After visiting those posts, I hope you will join me on Monday for the restart of Abigail's Attic and follow for inspiration thru art, writing and craftiness!  It should be fun!