So - anyway - here's a catch up on my current CJs
First up, my first entry for a new fabric based CJ taking place over on UKScrappers. My theme is tattoos, and I've asked each participant to make a 8" x 8" mini art quilt:
That blooming swallow took me two weeks to embroider, and not all the stitching is perfect, but I am fairly pleased with the end result. I look forward to the next six months, some of the themes are going to be a bit of a challenge for me I think, but that's why I enjoy CJs, I like being forced out of my comfort zone a bit.....
Next, and I'm not sure why I haven't blogged any of these already, I've been taking part for the last few months in a very different kind of CJ over at Collabor-art. It's called a Stay At Home CJ, and the basic premise is that each person taking part has made a background, and chosen a theme - we all have been sent colour copies of the ten backgrounds, and each month we all work on the same background, to the same theme, blind. There's a big reveal at the end of each month of what everyone did. And the big plus points are that 1) there's no postage costs or the worry of things getting lost in the post and 2) you get to keep all your artwork
Here are my entries to date, and links to the Collabor-art posts for each month so you can see what everyone else did from the same starting point:
Month 1, theme "for the love of trees":
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| Original background, by Lou |
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| My entry - the quote is Emily Bronte if I remember rightly |
Month 2, theme "Beastie":
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| Background by Carmen |
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| My entry - Cthulhu |
Month 3, theme "steampunk":
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| Background by Pat |
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| My entry - this was a 2 layer hand cut stencil which rather annoyingly fell apart on first use, so this is a one off! |
And last one for now (I'm currently working on Month 5), Month 4, theme "song lyrics":
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| Background by me |
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| My entry - the lyrics are from Cochise by Audioslave |
Phew, that was quite the update, I'll try not to leave it so long next time....