Summer Breeze Skirt
Yesterday turned out to be a great day for photographing outside. The rain really held out until later on in the day, instead of raining on and off all day. Luckily, my friend Susan was available to model my clothing for me. So now everything I have in my Etsy shop is fresh, with great pictures!
Open Tweed Cardigan
Blue Bells Skirt
This is my first, successful bag construction. It is a gift for Justin’s grandmother; who gave me the serger. I think the fabric print will suit her well, and hopefully she can get a lot of use out of it. If anything else; the needle case that goes along with it; will be a great way to organize knitting needles and supplies.
So I’m putting it out there for all of the world to see. Well, only on my site for the moment, but on Etsy soon. (As soon as I can convince one of my friends to put it on and model for the camera.) This is a total experiment that I tried to have fun with. I’m teaching myself to be a little less critical of what I create. What’s the point in doing anything creative if you can’t have fun with it? I’m getting a good chance to play around with the serger, and my new sewing machine. This skirt is made from an old sweater; with a handcrafted belt made of linen which includes a decorative stitch around the top; woven white ribbons sewn in place with buttons; and ruffles edges around the base. I am interested in what all of you think of this. Please leave me a comment. Criticism accepted! P.S. I want to take some better photos of this, possibly outside, but it’s been raining here for the past few days.
Yes my son loves to play in the dirt. He loves cars, rocks and dirt…no question that he’s all boy.
Making gifts for people comes much easier to me than actually shipping them out. Here I’ve made some baby wash clothes and some reversible fabric coasters.
Attended my first embroidery sewing class today, and all I have to say is “wow”, the possibilities are endless. We made an embroidered mini pillow that buttons up on both ends. Super cute. I need to work on the final touches and voila, awesome mini pillow. I’m really excited to go to the next one and learn even more, but for right now I am happy to experiment.
The two on the outside are the front and back of the pillow, and the dragonfly was something I tried after getting home.
I am proud to report that my seed starting success rate has been fantastic.
Herbs include: cilantro, basil, as well as, lemon basil, dill, oregano, thyme, savory, italian parsley, and sage.
Vegetables: broccoli, 4 types of tomatoes, 7 types of peppers, 3 types of lettuce, cucumber, and lemon cucumber.
Flowers: way too many to list, but to name a few: lupin, red hot pokers, hollyhock, purple and white gayfeathers.
Of course I felt compelled to share a few pictures.
See related post ”Tender Seedlings”
There is something comforting about the fact that these Mourning Doves grace our backyard on a daily basis. Many of you might think this is silly, but seeing them gives me so much happiness. What you might not understand is that Wellington, in our development is all new construction. We don’t have mature trees, or older growth which provide protection for all of the little birds and animals. There are no squirrels to speak of, the only regular birds we see are sparrows, and house finch. Until the Mourning Doves that we’ve named Frank and Martha. They joined our backyard frenzy (we do have a lot of the sparrows and finches because we put seed out for them) sometime after Christmas. They would come almost every day and usually just sit on the fence until they decided it was time to go elsewhere for the day. Then Martha stopped coming. Frank would come alone without his partner for months, until last week Martha returned. They are fun to watch even if they don’t really do anything, it’s just nice to know they like our yard. Oh, and I can’t forget to mention the lone junco that came with our recent snowfall.
So happy with how this turned out. It took a lot more yarn than I had anticipated, and took me longer than it should have. The knit itself is very easy, but I don’t always have long periods of time to sit down and work. Stitching the whole garment together also took a while, but I wanted to do it right. The buttons are my favorite part. Wish me luck tonight at First Friday Fort Collins to sell it.
