Another Bird Envelope Journal page

Art-Every-Day. I've finished another page in my Bird Envelope Journal. The background is a napkin, collaged onto an old book page.

Art Every Day - January 8

It is hard to believe that we are over 1/4 of the way through the month already.   Here are the submissions for January 8th:

Genevieve T. continued work on her beautiful CQ block:

Barbara K. began working on an incredible bookmark:

Susan (http://susanstudioarts.blogspot.com/2014/01/day-4-of-make-art-every-day-challenge.html) created another stunning ATC.

I worked on my Journal52 pages ( I had to do two of them to catch up) and spent far too much time cleaning up my studio.

My Journal52 page for Jan 7th: the prompt was for something to go "Up, Up, and Away" but this was my "make" on it... I saw this wonderful car ad in an old National Geographic and just had to use it. I treated it with Citra-Solve, let it dry and added a few printed words. Simple and I love it.  

Since I was behind, I had to do a second journal page as well.  This one is for January 8th. The background is a paper towel which I used as a mop-up rag and when I unfolded it, loved the distribution of colors so I kept it. I used Scor tape to mount it to a piece of cardstock, then added some torn pieces of Tim Holtz's tissue wrap. I used Golden Soft Gel medium as a glue, then gave the entire piece a coat of the gel for strength. I wanted to use something at least semi-transparent so that the decorative elements would not obscure the colors on the paper towel.

I also started working on an Entrelac Scarf.  The yarn arrived today and I was excited to begin working on a scarf, a free pattern from Craftsy.  You can see it at this link:  http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/knitting/accessory/entrelac-scarf/19?addToCart


I have never done an Entrelac piece before, and it takes a bit of adjustment to figure out what I need to do.  I did the first base triangle just fine, but bungled the count on the second one, ripped it out, went too far, and ended up with such a mess that I ripped out the entire thing and started all over again.  The second time went more smoothly, but the constant turn, turn, turn takes a lot of time.  A friend advised me to learn how to knit backwards.  I may set the Entrelac piece aside, grab some scrap yarn, and do just that! 

Here is the yarn:

Until tomorrow...

Art Every Day, January 5

Day 5 of the Art Every Day - January 2014 challenge results:

Lisa D. had a really productive weekend, it seems. She played with some hexagon quilt piecing.

She  started a baby blanket.

And she worked on this afghan.

Stephanie joined us and has three entries.  The first is a cowl, made for and modeled by her brother.

And then she created a 3D rose on her own fingernail.

Barbara K. worked on this Hanky Panky piece.  She stated:  "The hanky was bought in Paris by my mother. I feel that its energy is complimented by having the surrounding hankies with their points out."

I had some other commitments, but was able to complete this journal layout:

and, of course, my Journal52 page

You can see more of the Art Every Day work, and of course, a large amount of my own work, on my Flickr page:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertnparker/

Art Every Day - Jan 3

Day 3, of our challenge.

Connie K. worked on this piece:

Genevieve T. added still more to her CQ block:

Barbara K. spent some time creating a lovely floral arrangement:

And me?  Well, I knitted a few rows on my scrappy scarf.  This scarf is an effort to use a bunch of leftover 5 yard pieces of variegated tubular rayon "yarn" in a wide assortment of colors.  As such, the color is quite bold.  I am really liking it, although there are a large number of joins.  For the joins, I am using my favorite technique, the Russian join, which is really easy and works wonderfully well.  Using regular yarn, it is essentially invisible.  with this tubular knit, it is a bit more difficult, but still pretty much invisible.  I've always hated working those ends back into the knitted item.  This join avoids that issue altogether.

I also worked on my Journal52 page, the details are in a previous post.

Hope you have had a chance to visit my Flickr site.  That link, again, is   http://www.flickr.com/photos/bertnparker/