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!
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.
ReplyDeleteI had to do my research, those trees are amazing, just like setting up the fake ones for the living room, thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteLove your colors, I think the light blue idea.
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