Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

#everydaycreativeatoz Days 17-23 Q-W Q : Quilt, loving stitched  by family members for Jim's 70th Birthday - R: Reindeer - watercolour and ink drawing   S: 'Stick dolls' - 193 art dolls created for the exhibition "Stitched Up" T: Temari - wrapped and stitched balls in the  Japanese temari style  U: Used, undone and unfolded tea bags - great for various art/craft  V: Village and vixen ( handpainted wood)  W: Wise women - three art dolls created for the WOW series, Women of Wisdom)   

Another week of Arty Alphabet ( Instagram challenge #everydaycreativeatoz) .....  J : Jolly Jesters - little handmade dolls from an elinorpeace bailey pattern.   K: Kangaroo -  Australian applique on a background of paper and fabric with an overlay of organza and stitching L: Lino cut print -  only my second attempt at lino block printing   M: Mask - blackwork embroidered mask  N: Needle cases - I own quite a few, some made by me - the beautiful beaded one was made for me by my daughter-in-law.  O: Origami - It took me a long while to learn to do this, but finally got there, with tuition from my mother.  P: Penguin soft toys - Just finished last week for a challenge at Gumnut Dollies Newcastle. We were challenged to create something with a Christmas theme from a free downloadable internet pattern.  The pattern comes from PurlSoho. 

My cousin alerted me to this Instagram challenge called  #everydaycreativeatoz hosted by artist, Jennifer Cockcroft . Here is  a summary of what Jennifer says about this challenge in her blog  " Everyday Creative A to Z challenge! This really is as simple as it sounds - every day the prompt will be a letter of the alphabet (we'll work through them in order so nobody gets confused!), and all you have to do is post something related to that letter. I want you to really let your imagination run free with this and post whatever you like! I know we're in the lead up to Christmas, but there's absolutely no requirement for you to post festive images if that's not your thing - or if you're a total Christmas freak then please go right ahead! You could stick to a theme in your posts, or mix and match each day depending on your inspiration.....  You get the idea - there really are no rules with this, and if you like you can switch and change and post so...