Hello All,
Season’s Greetings from the dancing snowman!
Connie
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Dancing Snowman
Author: Connie Moore
Fall Landscape
Hello All,
I just finished a new design for the Fall season. My goal was to capture with this digital composition of hand-painted paper the glow sensation our eyes see when the sun interacts with the turning color of leaves. It’s like color therapy for the brain.
Happy Fall!
Connie
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Chalkboard Illustration for Birthday Card
Hello,
I have a new birthday card design to share. Illustration of a café chalkboard with white words, blue, yellow, green, pink, orange, and red stars, and a cupcake with a candle. The candle creates the i in Special. Digital image of hand-painted paper.
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Brown and Blue Wrap
Knit wrap with crochet lace, tie and accents.
Machine knit fabric with crochet edges.
Main yarn: Tahki Yarns, Arlington, 06 Copper
Weight: Bulky
Fibers: 50% Fine Merino Wool, 25% Superfine Alpaca, 25% Acrylic
Yarn made in Italy
Trim yarn: Malabrigo, Rios, 894 Cielo Y Tierra
Weight: DK
Fibers: Pure Merino
Yarn made in Peru
Side view.
Edge dots detail.
Bottom edge lace.
Button and tassel tie
Outside top stitching.
Fall Puzzles Card
With COVID separating family and friends it seemed like a good idea to design some more puzzle cards for young ones. A surprise in the mail is always a thrill.
Printed on 12O lb. weight, white, matte finish high-quality paper
Sticker sheet of 20
Fall Pumpkin Toddler T-shirt -OR- move this pumpkin to a product of your choosing.
Have any requests? I offer my design services for your print on demand items.
Best wishes,
Connie
Lightweight Blue Wrap
Machine knit fabric with crochet ruffled detail.
Yarn: Mirasol, Khusku, #19 “Paso Andes” hand-painted, (2) 439-yard skeins
Weight: Superfine
Fibers: 40% Merino Wool, 40% Bamboo (Viscose), 20% Nylon (polyamide)
Yarn made in Peru
STILL LIFE OF BERRIES
The Formal Garden
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Hello,
This is the time of year I always think about exploring gardens. I enjoy how plant partitions create garden rooms to be discovered. Each different and all beautiful.
Image of a whimsical formal garden. Through the rose trellis is a white, goddess statue in the distance, that sits atop a small pond. Sculptured evergreen plants form the background.
Best wishes,
Connie
Artwork is a digital photo collage of hand painted paper. Materials used: Liquitex, Heavy Body acrylic on Canson XL watercolor paper. Illustration created in Adobe Illustrator.
A Quilt as Design
This modern quilt image has 3 squares across and 4 down. Square patterns are a representation of modern-day quilt designs. On this card is a digital image of hand-painted paper. (Also available as a download on Zazzle.)
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Fabric shapes, sewn together
Does make a quilt.
Shapes in a straight line
And some are at a tilt.
Perhaps the most fun of all
The hunt for cute fabric.
Yards are, for the stash
So fantastic!
Although quilts are often used
To keep you cozy warm,
A quilt is, without a doubt
A stunning art form.
–Connie Moore
KENZIE KIWI FRUIT
I must have grown up in the age of ponchos. I just love them.
Let’s say you don’t think the shirt you have on makes you gorgeous, put on a poncho and out the door you go looking fabulous!
I try yarns that interest me and have the fiber content I am looking for. This yarn from HIKOO named Kenzie is from New Zealand with love — says so right on the label. I liked working with this yarn both on the knitting machine and crochet handwork. It hangs straight and keeps it’s shape very well.
As for the color name Kiwi Fruit, let’s do a test:
The fuzzy part?
The Kenzie yarn has silk noils. Being new to knitting I had to look up what “noils” meant — a decorative additive. AKA flecks of stuff.
Yarn: Hikoo, Kenzie
Color: Kiwi Fruit (1007)
Yarn Weight: Worsted
Yards: 160 yards per ball
Fibers: 50% New Zealand merino, 25% nylon, 10% Angora, 10% alpaca, 5% silk noils
Pattern: Manikin draping
Best wishes,
Connie
At the Beach
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Pebbles in the sand there are
Round because they’ve come so far.
At this time it feels so free
To be standing at the sea.
The beach stretches far and wide
Ready for the coming tide.
Treasures in the sand you wish
And there it is, one starfish.
– Connie Moore
Artwork is a digital photo collage of hand painted paper. Materials used: Liquitex, Heavy Body acrylic on Canson XL watercolor paper. Illustration created in Adobe Illustrator.
Best wishes,
Connie
Magenta Sleeveless Sweater
Machine knit fabric with crochet edges.
Yarn: Elsebeth Lavold, Silky Wool
Fibers: 65% wool, 35% silk
Weight: DK
Yarn made in Italy
Sewing pattern: Style ARC, ESME DESIGNER KNIT TOP
I took the yarn from the hanks and rolled nice stiff balls with center strands that pulled out with even tension. I like to work with silk fiber in the mix because it’s slightly sticky and stays on the needles of the knitting machine. This is the first yarn I have managed to work so tightly on my LK 150. The drape of the knitted Silky Wool is straight without curling problems. I don’t recall any unravelling strands or knots coming undone. Love this yarn!
Pattern piece outlines are glued with a fine line of fabric glue on both sides. Seams are yarn sewn and then bound with a crochet stitch. Cheating? You bet!
The Esme top is longer in the back than the front.
Crochet flower accents on the front neckline.
Knitting machine set to three needles forward, one back.
Connie Moore Designs Greeting Cards 