Julie's A through H

Oh my goodness! I figured since I didn't see any pictures come up on email, I was fine...but didn't realize I had to sign in new every year to get emails!
I HAVE been working on my first alphabet right along, so here is a catch up.
I actually have the whole alphabet done, because all the letters are connected, so it had to be designed all at once. But I will just show you sections at a time, then the finished put together in the end. It looks sort of wonky in sections. Letters are cut out of Arches Black cover paper.
I'll keep up now! And my dotty alphabet will be the second one.
Julie Gray
Denver, North Carolina, USA

hello from Jacky ...

Thanks so much Fiona for letting me join the group.  I'm a late starter..... but catching up quickly!  This past week or so I have stitched the letters below. 
I have used a lovely soft white linen cloth which I have torn (I love those frayed edges)  for my backing and thread beads to stitch the letter.  The thread beads ( a la Jude Hill)  are my take on the 'dot' theme for one of the alphabets.  The letters are all hand drawn, so not perfectly even or uniform.

I love stitching and painting... living in East Gippsland, a very beautiful part of Australia I am constantly inspired  by my environment in my art/creativity.  I am married and have two gorgeous grown up sons.  We live on a farm with lots of cattle, horses, dogs, cats .... and beautiful native birds and animal life.

Jacky xox
http://art4moi.blogspot.com/

Fiona's four for February

I have found a bit of time to keep on making my little letters.  I love the pin prick outlines and love the gentleness of them. They feel like snowflakes falling or something when I hold them in my hand.

So here are February's four - E, F, G and H. I like the contrast against the black; but won't be using black in the finished piece.

Here is where I have gotten to so far - the first eight letters sitting on a table in the shed.

A couple of close-ups of them nestled together - I like them close up to each other for some reason.

And an update on the backing sheet that is turning out to be so interesting!

I posted this same post over at my blog. We are away for work-work again, so I just need to find ways to stay online, on the road...

E,F,G,H, FROM MIEKE.

I keep going the way I started and think about a way of connecting them together.

It's so much fun working with shellac and wax.

I really like the rust of the letters.

And the added split-pins make it more dotti I hope.

Another layer of shellac on the rust glues it on well.

circle alphabet - next next ones

and here come G and H. I'm not so fond of my G looking like a snail (but in a way, snails are some gastronomic speciality here !)

I'm so happy to be part of this project and see all the wonderful ideas emerging this year !

JGR E,F,G & H

Hello friends, I hope all is well with you. Below is a continuation of the first alphabet for 2012: Dots.

For 'e' I chose a monochromatic palette of reddish-brown with large, texturized dots.

 'f' makes up for the mono-chromatic with lots of bright color and smaller dots. More texture, of course. LOL

 'g' is similar to f but the color is more subtle and dots are more prominent.

 For 'h' I went with a more 'clean' approach: various sizes of dots all white or nearly white to look somewhat 'bubbly'. Hmmm . . . it makes me wish for champagne . . . .

Thank you for visiting!

Gone Dotty - ok not for the first time

am a little behind as it is nearly the last Wednesday in the month... but as I have gone dotty, all is self explanatory. I also missed the words about the square and went totally with the circle for everything, especially when I discovered the diameter of my found fabric from an box of old coasters was the right dimension. I get easily excited when I find these old things at my favourite "shop". So now I present my "clayton" square dotty alphabet beginnings. Christine

February - Terrie

My continued alphabet......I made a tiny change and decided to back each square with a colored paper to pick up the spatter color.  I like it much better because it seems to really enhance the colors.

It's fun and challenging to sometimes try to incorporate the spatters and sometimes to ignore them.  I also sometimes have the zentangle overflow or bridge to the adjoining square, and sometimes not.....  I'm having SO much fun with this and with seeing everyone else's projects.  So much creativity!

Letters for February - Deb

Here are my next four letters. These little linen sachets are very fiddly to make and very hard to get square! I do like stitching on the linen though and it irons beautifully.

Noela's letters for February