What's Blooming in My Garden Today

The gardens at my place are amazing! I'm going to document what's blooming every week for the entire growing season. I can't believe how warm it is this week! 22 degrees and sunny today! It's just not natural! I know it's a bad thing, this global warming... but so hard not to be happy with such a gorgeous day.

Painted Forest

Winter is still here... Not enough snow for snowmobiling, but cold enough to wear some wonderful, warm and wooly handmade goodies. I'm enjoying this Bulky Mobius Cowl that I made recently with Nashua Painted Forest bulky wool. 
Plus, I love how it looks with my new Fossil bag!

Freeform Knitting



I completed this scarf months ago, but I'm a bit behind on blogging. This was my kind of knitting! I roughly followed Jane Thornley's "recipe" for her Baked Squash Scarf - find it on her blog or ravelry.com. She encourages making it up as you go, which is the kind of thing I love! A bit of feather and fan on the top and bottom and random stitches for the rest, just making holes here and there. The ribbon section in the middle is done increasing and decreasing numbers of yarn overs, which are all dropped on the following row. I like the monochromatic colour scheme, but I can't wait to try this with more colours too.  This was made with 5-6 different balls of yarn - mostly natural fibres - cotton, wool, bamboo, linen - it feels lovely.

I'm so inspired by Dina Wakley! (I have taken her online Art Journaling 101 class and highly recommend it!)  I created these cards using her techniques and I'm teaching them at the Scrapbook Shop in Mildmay on Nov. 23rd at 7pm. Please give them a shout if you are interested in attending! I'm super excited! Lots of messy, inky, spray painty goodness is used on these! I had so much fun making them, I kept right on going and made a bunch more!

Upcoming Card Class

I'm pretty excited to be teaching some card classes at the Scrapbook Shop in Mildmay. This is what I have planned for Nov. 9th at 7pm. Give them a shout if you are interested in attending!

Ambitions

I love the gorgeous fabrics on the new quilt I have started. There is something very pleasing about the straight lines, organization and the simplicity, but sometimes I aspire to do something a bit more freeform like this...

This was done by the fabulous fibre artst Robin Olsen. I first saw her work in my favourite magazine Cloth Paper Scissors and now they have put this article into one of their free downloads -check it out here.





 

A New Quilt

I'm so excited about this quilt! I've just got about half of the quilt top finished and I love it so far... the colours are bold, earthy, and juicy all at the same time. I will post more when the top is finished.