Kay, I love them!! Wish I could make them for Easter. I have a felted bear Christmas ornament that I bought in Michigan at an art fair.
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Kay, I love them!! Wish I could make them for Easter. I have a felted bear Christmas ornament that I bought in Michigan at an art fair.
Beautiful photos, Bae!
Those eggs are so pretty, Kay!
Very nice, Kay! Great job!
Love those eggs! What a lively color variation. I like the dark blue one best, but the orange one is luvely, too. Did you out the little bitsy pieces of felt and embroider them?
Yes, cut out the shapes, sewed them onto the larger ovals of felt, embellished them with embroidery stitches, then machine sewed the ovals (4 for each egg), stuffed them with polyfil, then embellished the seams.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Not bad for cat toys ...;-)
Ha! I started them before LAST Easter, but put them aside until this winter. They look simple, but they're time consuming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Amazing effort, and great results!Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
I haven't actually seen a bee yet, but heard one as it zoomed by my face this morning!Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
They are really lovely. Is there a background story or cultural history that explains your effort to make these.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
No, no history or background, sorry. They just looked like something fun and colorful to do during lockdown. I started them back then, then set aside after cutting out all the pieces. Just picked them back up a month or so ago and finished them. I hate having partially done projects in my stash.Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
Very elegant--pysanky for your cat!
Here is an amusing, if cheezy, floral design for our recent Daffodil show. The theme of the flower show was “weather “and this particular class was “Storms Ahead.” I had the spiralized Midollino piece in my basement and I thought it look like a tornado, so I figured out a way to use it in the class.
It won “Best in Show” As well as the blue ribbon in its class. I usually don’t do literal interpretations of themes, but this tornado thing was sitting right there.
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Very nice! Congrats, IL.
Nice!!!!
Congrats IL...good creative instinct!
Very nice, IL!
That's great, IL! The floral arrangement has so much movement it does look like it's being swept away! Congratulations!
The sun is at last showing up here!
https://i.imgur.com/HQycIsh.jpg
Wow. Breathtaking!
Not artistic but beautiful IMO... taken from the kitchen window today.
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Yes, it is beautiful! Lovely birds!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Both very beautiful pictures!!
Here's my latest finish. Can you find the starfish?Attachment 4468
That's lovely, Kay. I think I see two starfish - is that possible?
I was going to post the same thing. LOL. I see two as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I saw two as well, a large one on the flank and a smaller one near the head.
K, what medium is this? It looks like a stamp on fabric.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
It's counted cross stitch, Iris. Every time I tell myself I'm not going to do another counted piece, I find myself charmed by another pattern!
Yes, two starfish!
That is beautiful!
VERY nice!
Not especially artistic. But, I've been experimenting using some of my astronomy image processing tools on terrestrial photos.
Modern computers are super-powerful for image processing, especially the higher-end new Apple M1 processor-based machines.
The source photo is a simple digital snapshot of a 50+ year old photo in a frame, with an older iPhone.
The resultant photo is that image run through some of my tools, a process that would have taken forever with older computers, here it was nearly real-time to examine the changes, which allowed me to fiddle with some of the parameters to get a better result.
https://i.imgur.com/q4IXbZs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3MITZjX.jpg
Bae, that technology really crisped the image nice and clean.
That's quite a machine and artist!! Is that you, Bae? Nice work.
A boy and his dog! My father would have loved this.
Me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
Random first experiment with a pinhole lens. No filters were abused in the production of this image :-)
https://i.imgur.com/0AcTOr5.jpg
That's pretty cool, Bae!
Walked to the top of the mountain this afternoon, took some shots of the Cascades (Mt. Baker and the Twin Sisters) from Mt. Constitution here. Then stopped at the community dock on the way back, and got a shot of a storm over the Olympic mountains from a distance:
https://i.imgur.com/k9kJPCM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cYyTkIW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/py9gCYo.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Z57TXoO.jpg
Wow. Gorgeous.
Great shots, Bae. The stormy sky is amazing.