#AtoZchallenge 2020 Theme Reveal

Regular readers, are you expecting more Fluevog sketches and repeats?
Not this April! [Maybe next month].

This year, I'm featuring the alphabetical journeys on "Stitching the World", my current massive embroidery project.

As I've been stitching the responses to my 4 Questions*:

Join in! link to answer form*

And documenting my week-by-week progress: [week 1] [week 2] [week 3] [week 4]
I've realized it's been very difficult to see the details. How to show them? The large image is too far away and the photo quality is bad.

My favorite shots have been those of the growing mass of French Knots of LA:

But there are so many other areas to see!
115 journeys to be exact!
Come back on April 1st to see the "A" journeys.

* The Four Questions will close on 3/29 at 3:29PST. 
If you would like to join in, click here to answer before the deadline.

Curious about the A to Z Challenge? Read more here, on the A-Z Blog, and consider giving it a try! I’ve discovered new blogging friends and have created lots of new art through it.
I have an A-Z blogroll on the bottom of this page, to give you an idea of the wide variety of possibilities.

My past A-Z challenges here
A-Z Fluevogs 2019

A-Z Fluevogs 2018
A-Z Fluevogs 2017
A-Z Tartans 2016

and elsewhere
A-Z Trucks 2019
A-Z Trucks 2018
A-Z Trucks 2017

Southwest A-Z 2015

Enid in the Scarf Closet A-Z 2015

Linking up with
Shelbee's Spread the Kindness
Michelle's Creative Compulsions Linky Party
Catherine's #shareallLinkup

Stitching the World at stARTup Art Fair LA

This past weekend Stitching the World met the public at the stARTup LA Art Fair held at the Kinney Hotel in Venice Beach.

Room 207

The public responded:

93 answers during the three days of the fair!

The four questions:
1. Where are you from?
2. Where are you now?
3. Where do you want to go?
4. What color is your journey?

Stitching...

Most journeys meet in Los Angeles (the popular answer to "Where are you now?")

French knots at the hubs

The current state of the world.
click to embiggen

Want to join virtually?
CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THE 4 QUESTIONS (goes to a previous blog post that has the color chart)

Linking up with
Catherine's #shareallLinkup
Shelbee's Spread the Kindness

Smiley Safety Cones and Procreate

I've taken a breather from the Fluevogs this month.
Instead, I've been learning Procreate in an eCourse with Traci Bautista. It's been super fun.

This wacky print came out of experimenting with McGyvering a repeat in Procreate -- just to see if it was possible:

There were some issues in getting it into a real repeat, but I didn't have to totally rebuild it.

Now it's up on Spoonflower, because a friend wants to sew a raincoat with it.
I want one too!
[Not yet available for purchase, I have to go through the proofing sample phase first.]

What is helping me "stay the course" (because I'm a terrible ecourse learner) is I turned my class experiments into a "100 a Day" project on Instagram. Today I'll be creating #52/100! More than halfway done! Mostly I've been creating "background" textures -- the cones are a definite anomaly! A couple of Fluevog motifs snuck in there as well.
Here's where you'll find them all: #100_amb

Have you tried Procreate yet?

Linking with
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

[update 6/1/19]

View this post on Instagram

@annembray.art If I get any closer, the camera will 💣🧨💥❤️❤️❤️ @spoonflower #safetymaterials

A post shared by sjkurtz (@erniekdesigns) on May 31, 2019 at 7:12pm PDT

Spoonflower Limited Palette Challenge

The colors we were allowed to use:

First idea, pattern from my Goth "collection" [a collection currently with only two designs]:

[Currently displayed ginormous so can see design -- maybe that's OK]
link to Spoonflower

Then I saw this on Instagram:

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A lovely lady I met last week was so kind as to let me take a photo of the fabric on her vintage blouse. #floral #inspo #bohostyle #bohodecor #instastyle #textiledesign #design #textiles #textiledesigner #happy #repeatpattern #colorful #ss2020 #fashiondesigner #fashiondesign #trendresearch #nofilter

A post shared by schauleh vivian sahba (@bouclesf) on Jan 15, 2019 at 9:03am PST

Which led me to this:

link to Spoonflower

   And I thought, what if I try the limited palette on it?

link to Spoonflower

Voilà, my Challenge entry!

Now it's time to vote -- CLICK HERE
Spoonflower randomizes the entries, and you will have 762 to wade through!
Thanks in advance!

Linking this up with
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup
and
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week