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It is as though there was a reason that I had kept all of these remnants for the colors of my now.

We are going to work on practical items in combat colors next week. Key rings and zippered pouches which they are going to give their brothers and sisters. I decided to create some pieces of my own before the lesson. I too am angry and heartbroken and working on my art is what helps me.

They are all in shock. They are finding the creativity helpful. Most of the meetup was spent talking about good and evil in the world and why the children?

I wanted to create my vision of a sand to sea to twilight sky of Israel and here it is .

I had begun working on teh landscape of our home yesterday. When I complete a project I always keep the remnants in a color coordinated bag or box, depending on how many I have. This time I had an interesting selection.

I sent many whatsapp messages and made some calls. First to the soldiers, They are all fine thank goodness. Then to high school students and then to the younger ones. Everybody is in good health but were very upset emotionally of course. We decided on a spontaneous zoom meet up to catch up with each other.

Its only been six days - six days since sirens first thing on Saturday morning - six days of carnage - six days of unspeakable horrors - surrealistc!

Well I shared the moonlight Strip Collage Patchwork piece that I created recently and my sister saw it :) She said that she also wants one so I said ok I will gift it to you. She wants different colors :) A sunset this time.

I spent all day today working on that moonscape, I really enjoyed creating it. As I said I was tasked with creating a technique where no ironing,and precise measuring is necessary. Anyone who knows how to do basic sewing can create a strip collage patchwork piece.

I am going to create a carnival fabric twilight piece with colors going from a darker, deeper skyline across the sea and down to the sandy beach.

I have worn these pants many times and they are ready for a new life. So its time from pants to a bag. I reconstructed them into a multi pocketed tote bag. I also wrote a tutorial for it.

Contrary to what I usually do, that is, have the colors fixed in my mind before beginning to work, this time, I first pulled out colors in a certain mix and then thought of the design. I played around with the fabrics and built something that I think will work for a moonlight landscape.

I discussed colors with my students this week. One of them had a project where she had to paint a somber, serious, heavy landscape and she asked how to choose colors for that. She is a student who is always happy, dancing and laughing all the time and she said that she never feels sad so she is having a hard time choosing colors for the project.

How Small is Small I always enjoy finding ways to use up all of the remnants and scrap pieces when working on a project. Like Rumpelstiltskin turning scraps to gold

A few years ago I had photos of my wedding and never saw myself as a person who needed to take the dress out to relive the occassion. It was important for me to do something meaningful with the dress. I kept it in a box for a while and when I began teaching children how to sew I realised that I could accomplish a twofold purpose, the first and more important one was to teach as many children as possible the long forgotten skills of handsewing and the second purpose was

Last week I worked in spring colors creating some boho fabric. I had a selection of spring colored strips and decided to create more scrapfabric.

I don't sew items for people, I also don't mend clothing. I teach. But I told her that I would sew a bag for her baby stroller and use the pictures to write another tutorial. I have to make samples when writing my tutorials. This was perfect. I love that I am making something and that it won't just be sitting in a box and that somebody will get good use out of it.

I was creating with carnival colors last week. A new fabric technique. This time it can used for art but lends itself to practical items as well. Boho pillows for home decor and also for usable items like a large boxy carnival boho tote bag which is always a practical piece.

I wanted to create a rustic, bohemian piece of carnival boho fabric with lots of texture. And of course I didn't want to spend any money purchasing more supplies. I have pieces of lace and some floral appliques but I didn't want to use anything purchased. How would I create this if I was unable to access any stores. I looked around my studio and I have a LOT of supplies, small scraps, stored by color in upcycled plastic bottles.

I like to keep a supply of upcycled zippered pouches. I have a box with a number of them. they are my go to gift wrap, as a gift in themselves, a pouch to place jewelry in when I gift a button necklace,. a coin purse, and I also put herbal tea mixes in to gift when I go visiting friends and neighbours. More wave quilt patchwork zippered pouches made this morning with the remnants from my large wave landscape piece