I intended to end work a little early Friday and hit the sewing room before dinner, but then YouTube happened. I needed to find something for our applique group to do at our Saturday meeting and ran across this video on making wool feather trees: https://youtu.be/Eo1dYNrqI2g. I've seen these around the past couple of years and had no idea how they were made. The process isn't nearly as complicated as I thought it might be - and looked like fun - so instead of sewing along with the FNSI folks (Sugarlane Designs) on Friday I was on a mission to assemble supplies. After a quick run to JoAnn's I dusted off the dye pots and started playing with some greens. It's been ages since I did any dying so it was really a lot of fun.
Here's the group hard at work on their trees. We didn't have time to finish them so I am excited to see how they turn out. I need to dye more wool so that I can work on one (or two?).
When I finally did get to the sewing room on Saturday the first order of business was choosing colors for the Good Fortune mystery that begins on Friday. I want to use blacks and grays but am still trying to decide on the rest of the colors. I have three finalists that are still in the running - blue and red:
Blue and green:
Or ditching the whites/creams and using black as my neutral:
And a couple of other combos that I ruled out right away. I didn't even consider red and cheddar as that would be too similar to Alietare from a couple of years ago.
Right now I am leaning toward the blue and green. Looking at the photos as I write this, though, I am pondering using a light blue instead of the green....I will have to take a look at that tonight. That might just be the winner.....
I did manage to get a little sewing done after covering my floor in piles of fabric. I finished this month's Super Scrappy Log Cabin blocks. I love making these and am so excited that I have managed to keep up for seven months now. I can't remember if this one runs 12 or 18 months but I can't wait to see all of these put together. They are fun to make!
It will be a busy week with the kids coming home and lots of cooking but I am SO excited that it is almost mystery time. Just four more sleeps!
Or ditching the whites/creams and using black as my neutral:
And a couple of other combos that I ruled out right away. I didn't even consider red and cheddar as that would be too similar to Alietare from a couple of years ago.
Right now I am leaning toward the blue and green. Looking at the photos as I write this, though, I am pondering using a light blue instead of the green....I will have to take a look at that tonight. That might just be the winner.....
I did manage to get a little sewing done after covering my floor in piles of fabric. I finished this month's Super Scrappy Log Cabin blocks. I love making these and am so excited that I have managed to keep up for seven months now. I can't remember if this one runs 12 or 18 months but I can't wait to see all of these put together. They are fun to make!
It will be a busy week with the kids coming home and lots of cooking but I am SO excited that it is almost mystery time. Just four more sleeps!
3 comments:
Oh my gosh! We had so much fun making the wooly trees. Thank you again for such a fabulous Saturday! I too am looking forward to Good Fortune. I'll be leaning towards Bonnie's colors this year.
I had to do my research, those trees are amazing, just like setting up the fake ones for the living room, thanks for sharing. :)
Love your colors, I think the light blue idea.
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