It's been a good week so far--lots of sewing! The picture shows working being done. And this is a corner in my little craft room, where most days anyone can find me. I'm trying to get several things ready so that they can go up for sale very soon! The turquoise-dot fabric at the sewing machine is what I'm currently working on, making it into a bag. And she's almost done! Since day one, now looking back a couple weeks, I see pink and/or aqua blue has featured in nearly every post picture...What can I say? Call them my signature colors! I do tend to work with pink and blue a good bit. Blue is such a peaceful, calming color. Pink has such fancy and delight to it. Playing around with fabrics and yarn so much lately has me thinking about colors in general...About how they are used, what colors bring to a project or piece. When I look at my craft stash, I see a significant amount of pinks, blues, white and cream with some lilac/purple thrown in. There's a little red, too. This goes for fabrics, yarn, threads, paints, beads, paper, etc. No yellow or orange. I've never made anything with yellow or orange in it. Isn't it interesting when you stop and think about color? What are your colors? Why are you drawn to them? How do you use them? How do they make you feel?
But don't worry, not every single thing that will be up for sale here will be pink or blue! But these cheerful colors do stretch out the feeling of summer though. And summer can feel free to last a little longer, for here in Norway some days already have had a breath of autumn in them.
The hydrangea has finally bloomed. I've been waiting for it. It's a funny, spindly-looking bush, but the flower heads have the prettiest lavender-blue color. I recently learned that hydrangeas do not like, or even require, pruning, which I didn't know before. Gardening is such a thrill--there's always something to learn and try.
Aren't these garden clogs a kick? They have pink roses splashed all over them. (Oh, no, more pink & turquoise! ha ha!) I've been wearing them all summer outside when tending to all the green things growing. When I have them on I have to stop myself from a doing a little dance of joy, they're so much fun to wear! (And with socks on, very comfortable they are too. So they're not just for looks!) Although, there is a sweet little phrase that's been around for a little while that goes something like, "Dance as if no one were watching," or similar. Maybe I should take that to heart and let my rosy-clad feet dance away!
If you don't have any rosy shoes, I highly recommend them! Treat yourself to some happy feet and dance, dance, dance!
Happy Days! :o)
A break from fabrics and notions to share another kind of creating--cooking. Butter, flour, brown sugar, pecans, vanilla...Weekends are meant for play. So I was playing in the kitchen today for a while making butter-pecan shortbread to have with tea. And along with tea and a treat, time with my favorite magazine--the British edition of Country Living! This magazine greatly inspires me from month to month, year after year. I love English style!
Here's a little taste bite for your eyes! The fabrics featured in the previous post are the result of this week's work--this fun summer-y totebag. The fabrics and colors are so cheery, don't you think? I also made a tissue holder to match. The bag has two outer pockets and two inner pockets--great for all those extra essentials. A laptop will fit in the totebag. This bag will be my first item up for sale once I've ironed out the last details, which I mentioned last time. More jolly, pretty things to come!
This week I noticed the first leaves turning colors. Fall is around the corner. Still, there will be a last taste of summer. We have lots of tomatoes, salad leaves and zucchini from our kitchen garden to enjoy and stretch out the season. The miracle of seed to plant to plate never fails to amaze me!
Happiness today is sewing! With these fabrics I'm working up a lovely little bag. The bag and other items I will show here soon, will be for sale. This blog along with being a place to muse and share my love of crafting will also be a place to showcase handmade items I plan to sell. Right now I am in the process of making items for sale and hope soon to find a website that hosts crafters/textile artisans with a PayPal system. Some of you out there have expressed interest in buying some of my crafts now. You are all so sweet and wonderful! Shopping is not available yet--I'm getting things underway. Please be patient and know I will be putting up the "for sale" sign, so to speak, very soon. So please keep checking back with me here. Stay tuned!
Here in southern Norway today, it rains. And here are my rainy afternoon companions--tea and knitting. It is the back piece for an off-shoulder sweater for summer. I cannot place the pattern's origin. I clipped it out from a magazine a couple of years ago. There is not a magazine name or such at the bottom corner of the page. This has been my sole knitting project this summer. And with summer soon closing, I hope to wear it yet! The yarn is an acrylic-cotton blend. The color is lovely and just what I wanted. However, it is not much fun to work with. Still, with the front piece, short raglan sleeves, and the back piece almost half finished--completion is in sight!
Our cat, Charlie, thinks everything is fine the way it is. We can learn a lot from cats!
