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Derwent Watercolour Pencils | Whims And Fancies

With the approach of October, one of my favourite months, I find myself in the flightiest of moods. Sitting with anything for long is a chore and the thought of finishing anything seems an impossible task. My otherwise tidy desk is now a mirror image of my brain. This is true except for one thing- books! A book is the only thing that can still pin me down for hours on end.

Freedom and Read Quilt Pattern | Whims And Fancies

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This week is Banned Books Week, an event sponsored by the American Library Association. I am lucky enough to celebrate my freedom to read and think independently every day. This FREADOM quilt I made last year is possibly my most favourite piece! You can read about the story behind this mini here.

Dryburgh Abbey With Derwent Watercolour Pencils | Whims And Fancies

Other than travelling in the pages of my books, I also travel by means of painting places I have visited before. I love Derwent pencils. I already have a set of their Inktense pencils and recently I was gifted a set of the Derwent Watercolour pencils. I am trying them out on this sketch of Dryburgh Abbey.

Hexagon Quilt | Whims And Fancies

I pulled out my Hexagon quilt again. After having made a little over 2000 hexagons, sadly, I have lost interest in this project. I will probably sew a few more rows and then come up with a design sans hexagons to finish this quilt. Any ideas, anyone?

Fall And Halloween Quilt Patterns | Whims And Fancies

October of course means Autumn and Halloween. I have been selling quite a few Fall/Halloween quilt patterns from my shops. That means very soon I will be able to make a sizeable donation to my favourite charity.

Here is a collage of all the Autumn / Halloween blocks I made until today. I have two orange kitties in real life, and they are both here of course!

I always get asked about pattern links right after I publish a post, so I am including the links here should you like to purchase any.

Halloween Quilt Patterns | Whims And Fancies

Charlie’s Adventure

There won’t be any new fall or Halloween projects this year, but I have pulled out the Charlie’s Adventure quilt and its backing fabric. I made this one for the Black Cat Crossing blog hop alongside writing a short story that goes with this quilt. You can read the story here. It’s high time I quilt this one.

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Janine from Rainbow Hare wrote a wonderful post called Leap In Colour. I myself have been thinking about taking a leap for a while now, and her post gave me that much-needed push. Many thanks to all of my online friends as well for their constant encouraging comments. I started taking the first steps toward the next phase of Whims And Fancies. Following on Janine’s footsteps, I am also letting my byline be my inspiration.

On the note of taking a leap, I just created a Twitter account – https://twitter.com/inktorrents

If you are on Twitter, I would love for you to follow me there!

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Thank you for listening,
-Soma

I am also linking up on Photo Friday, Life Thru The Lens, Through My Lens, Seasons, Our World Tuesday and Friday Photo Journal along with with other linky parties on my Events And Links page.

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This is a prime example of a project that would never end. It snowballed and continuously transformed into the next project. I had taken a passing photo of a stone bridge in Mull while travelling in Scotland. Although I quite often take photos with the intention of drawing them at a later date, this was not one of those photos. I simply took it because I love old stone bridges.

Stone Bridge, Mull, Scotland, Watercolour Painting | Whims And Fancies

Couple of years later, I found a watercolour painting meet in Los Angeles. I dug through my pictures and picked out the stone bridge photo to paint from. This was going to be a rough watercolour sketch, nothing special!

Stone Bridge, Mull, Scotland, Pen drawing | Whims And Fancies

Before I worked on the watercolour sketch, I decided to make a black and white value drawing. So one night I roughly sketched this small 3.5″ x 5″ piece. As I was using it as a reference for my watercolour sketch, my husband saw this, a few people at the meet saw this, and everyone asked me repeatedly why I had made it so small. I was told I should draw it much larger. They really didn’t get the point that it was a sketch. Couple of months ago, as I was rummaging through my little scraps for a drawing motif, my husband happened to see it again. I was promptly reminded that I should draw a larger version of this. So I finally did!!

North Sea Watercolour Painting | Whims And Fancies

All of this really started with this picture. This was the first drawing project I worked on while attending the group. I was playing with painting moving water on this watercolour sketch of the North Sea, from a photo I took in Scotland. I wanted to paint another picture with water in it, that reminded me of the stone bridge picture that I had wanted to paint. Thus the snowballing began!!

Stone Bridge, Mull, Scotland, Pen drawing | Whims And Fancies

My husband also insisted that I frame this one. He even picked out the mat board and the frame with me. I am ready to move on from the bridge. It is a bit ironic, isn’t it, Getting stuck on a bridge?!

Swirly Black And White Pencil Case | Whims And Fancies

I recently roped him into drawing as well. He has his own set of tools now, so I made a little pencil case for him. He picked out the fabric himself, he said it reminds him of fantasy stories. The bottom and the top pieces of the zipper were the same size when I started. I was playing with the serger and I just could not sew a straight seam that day. So the one side kept on shrinking. As I was thinking about starting on a new one, I finally got a straight seam at the very last moment. It is not the original size or the look I was going for, but he really likes it.

Projects sometimes tend to take a life of their own. What do you do? Continue on and see where it ends up or call it a day after a certain point?

-Soma

Bits And Pieces

A Snowballing Project