Points to consider?

Good evening, Blogging early this week as we have visiters tomorrow morning and off to Eden (The Eden project in St Austell) in the afternoon so will be pushed for time in the morning.  Well as you can see the second page of drawings is not so good as the first, I peeked to early!!!

So I returned to the first page to do the next exercise.  Found a small section which was intresting and traced it as suggested in the course materials but found it a bit dull so I took a photo and grew it on the photo-copier, well lets be honest here hubby grew it on the photo-copier as I have no idea how to do it.

These are the designing in line drawings on tracing paper from the photo-copy in the order I did them.

And so to colour, "try to keep the colours fairly subtle" it says so this is me being subtle.  Not natural for me I like lots of bold colour and prints, sooo this is the second one in progress......

  Hummmm may try subtle again! 
Have worked out if I am going for twelve weeks for each modual (I really need to set some deadlines or I could wonder for months) then I am aiming for 8th April 2013 to complete, umm we will see.  Have a good week please leave comments on how you would have done this and maybe suggest the next colour way.  Something subtle?
 

 

Cut and Cut again

 Cut and cut again was the name of the workshop I attended yesterday with the Beacon Quilters, a fun day.  The blue one has not been quilted yet but the pink one has can you see four bunnys?  I was going to machine quilt  with a fancy stitch but after an hour of the machine tension just not playing I
hand quilted it!  Not sure what that was all about maybe the machine did not like the thread because I have done it before with no problem, or maybe the machine had had enough of sewing as it had been
going all day.  I have done a little to the hearts are all around but not a lot it has been a busy week on the childminding front.  Hopefully will have finished the panel I showed you last week during this week some time.
                                     

And here finally my first bit of drawing for the course, as you can see I will not be giving up my day job any time soon to become an artist. It is ment to be the first line drawing exercise, I may have put in too much detail as it is ment to be an outline drawing.  Trouble was it is a chrysanthemum and I needed to draw the inside to get to the outside!  Oh well will try the next exercise later or tomorrow depending on time (got a lot of things to catch up on as I was out all day yesterday)  and see if I have boxed myself into a courner by doing too much detail in the first drawing.   Have driven myself mad looking at William Morris textiles and wallpapers this week, there is soo much "inspired by" William Morris and it is not always clear if it is his work or someone elses.  But I do have some fabric commping from ebay which I know is his but the colours have been updated by freedom fabric.  I have been looking at covering books with fabric on you tube and may present my work like this as that particular fabric is my starting point and I thought it might tie it all together niceley. 
Well thats another week down need to count up twelve weeks so that I can see when I should be aiming to complete this module, am hoping things will move a bit quicker now I have completed the research side of things and am actually doing the more creative bits.  Have a good week see you next Sunday.