TGIF on a Saturday #2

I recently found a new TGIF meme on This West London Life blog.   Most of us would recognise TGIF as an acronym for Thank God (or Goodness) It’s Friday, but in Brené Brown's world it stands for Trust, Gratitude, Inspiration and Fun.   In light of my recent post Notice the small things I thought I might join in with the meme - but on a Saturday.

Trust
Trusting that the workbook and design brief I have submitted will pass and I get get started on the fianl piece for Module 2

Gratitude
Grateful for the excellent teaching at my church

Inspiration
Inspired by the dedication to training and the effort required by the ridersin the Tour de France.

Fun
Having fun taking silly photos of me holding Esther's painting.  At the Jubilee Studio

What things have you noticed this week?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

O is for Obedience

In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.

Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.

I randomly put some washi tape on the page.  I printed out the verse from 2 John 6 and stuck it down.  I used a pen to make the dashes around each part of the verse.  I used some tiny letters for the obedience, obedient and obey.

I am currently re-reading Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman and had just got to this bit of the book about obedience so I wrote it out to remind me of where I want to be with my commitment to God.

And here are the two pages together.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Join Our Inspirational Facebook Group: Living Your Word of the Year

Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019.  Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post.  We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.

 Living Your Word of the Year 2019

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Leah Higgins Too

As promised last time, here are the fabrics I printed.  The colours in the photos aren't totally true to the fabric but you will see how using a colour family you can get lots of fabric that goes together.

Let's start with the ones that really didn't work well as part of the family.  However when they are cut up they may work after all.

Now on to the ones that did work.  Remember the grid I drew on the scrren with straight lines.  This is how it prints.

This was a mix of torn masking tape resist and embedded items.

The next few are various screens of embedded items.

Spreading the dye with a credit card

More embedded screens

Using crumpled up plastic bags to make the pattern on the screen.

 Another masking tape and embedded items screen

And the grid again

Another colourway from the masking tape and embedded items screen

Using the drippage screens

There are some more fabrics but I they are very similar to the ones you have already seen. Most of the fabrics will be cut up and used as smaller pieces but this last one may well stay as a whole cloth.  Still thinking about that!

And finally the whole pile!

If you are interested in breakdown printing and the way Leah uses it, you can see her gallery at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC from August 1st-4th.  It is undoubtedly the best fabric, stitch and quilt show in the UK.  Don't miss it.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice