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I made some art on procreate based on a piece of machine embroidery I made many years ago. I’m not massively confident using procreate but here’s my attempt.
Ps I know it’s “make do and mend”, but I added the comma on purpose to reclaim the concept for modern times.
Music in video by my husband Rhodri – find a link to his band camp site here
My son wanted me to help him this evening to fix a drawing he’d done on a wood cookie at forest school. And of course my 2yo daughter wanted to try too…well since everyone was doing it I wanted to play too!
So we got out our acrylic paint markers we’ve used for painting on pebbles and did some awesome art on our wood cookies!
My son did his name and some cool designs in purple (his favourite colour), my daughter made an incredible, multicoloured surreal extravaganza. And I did some cherries 🍒 Ceirios is my daughters name, it’s Cymraeg 🏴 for Cherry.
At forest school they make awesome things from wood cookies, as well as name “badges/lanyards”. They’re awesome so I made one for Ceirios too.
We go to our AMAZING local forest school at Dare Valley community woodland, situated in the Dare Valley Country Park. A massive area of reclaimed land previously used for coal mining.
Can’t recommend enough!
Looking back through some of my old posts, I saw this picture of my old little sewing nook in our old house in Cardiff and really miss having this little space of my own to be able to sew and craft whenever inspirado takes me ❤️
If you’ve not heard of Inktober, it’s a month long drawing challenge. You’re given the daily prompts and just enjoy, use your imagination at post your drawings on instagram, tagging inktober ❤️ They might share your drawing!
I’ve started it for the last few years, but never finished. But this year I actually have!!!
I’ve also been taking part in Inktober 52 this year. With a new prompt each week of the year, it’s a nice weekly challenge and not so intense as coming up with a new drawing everyday! We’re up to week 44.
I’ve actually finished inktober for a change! There’s a few I’m not fussed with but just glad I finished it all! And tried to do a drawing within a drawing 🎃
Day one was on a separate page as part of Inktober 52 and then the rest of the 30 days fitted nicely onto an a4 spread in my Scribbles That Matter journal.
I decided to do it all on one page this year, partly because I wanted to keep it more manageable, I wanted to do it in my bullet journal and as I was laying it out, I had the idea to try to do the drawing within the drawing. Which definitely kept my interest, and encouraged me to finish it! It also made each individual drawing more challenging, trying to make them part of the bigger drawing.
Please check out Inktober on instagram to see all the incredible artists!!
The Inktober 2023 Prompt List:
1. Dream
2. Spiders
3. Path
4. Dodge
5. Map
6. Golden
7. Drip
8. Toad
9. Bounce
10. Fortune
11. Wander
12. Spicey
13. Rise
14. Castle
15. Dagger
16. Angel
17. Demon
18. Saddle
19. Plump
20. Frost
21. Chains
22. Scratchy
23. Celestial
24. Shallow
25. Dangerous
26. Remove
27. Beast
28. Sparkle
29. Massive
30. Rush
31. Fire
Thanks for reading ❤️
Seeing all my hexis that I’ve cut out together laid out rather than in a box is pretty intimidating. I’m not sure how many I have, I don’t think I want to know 😱 Just got to embrace the process and accept, this isn’t a quick project.
I’ve been slowly making this since 2020 lockdown, see previous blog for more information. What I’ve completed so far is hanging on my living room wall.
Ignore my stupid face and hair 🫣
I decided to make one of each hexi, as I’d bought some new fabric and hope it’ll go nicely with what I have already.
I was trying to decide how best to approach getting all these backed onto paper with losing the will to live. What I have been doing is making up a few in all the different fabrics and then making a few hexi flowers and starting again, before seeing all the hexi flower together.
This time I’ve decided to just keep a stash of one of the types of ready cut hexis in a box with everything I need to back them. So now I can just whip that out and make a couple as and when I feel like it.
Seems less intimidating to do it this way, rather than getting the whole lot out each time.
Embrace the slow process.
I’ve noticed my baby girl has loved little yellow chicks for ages now and I’ve been wanting to make her one. I finally found a pattern I liked and got around to making it!
The pattern is from Etsy by TheresasCrochetShop. Super recommended the pattern, really easy to follow and clear instructions. I’ll most definitely make a few more for Easter next year!
Made using just scraps of leftover yarn I’ve had free with magazines over the years. DK acrylic and using a 4mm crochet hook.
Hopefully the baby will like it!!
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