Lately as I go about my life, I have been seeing roses everywhere. On fences, overtaking other plants, creeping onto pavements....it seems that these last few months of extra rain have given roses everywhere a new gust of life after a dry, hot suffocating year of water restrictions.
This delights me as I have missed seeing so many things in bloom. I nearly forgot what I was missing out on.
These are some pictures from my neglected garden.
I have completely ignored them and they have come through blooming for me....wonderful.
You can see where my inspirations for design comes from. When winter comes, I want to be surrounded with these colours and shapes...
It's got me thinking back to my procion dying days. My quest for colour has reached critical point: I have been thinking of hand dying my own yarn for crochet work. It seems that yarn colour is so limited. Why is this???
I have so many ideas I would love to crochet through in subtle and natural shades.
If anyone knows of a supplier of wool who offers a significant colour range....please let me know!
I love this head - it looks as if I have flecked it with a paint brush...no, it's completely natural.
Speaking of crochet, although I have plenty to do already, I have started designing an afghan. Yes! My main trouble is with the colour selections so I am still working on that. I am working through sampling my ideas into blocks at the minute.
I have so much to do before the end of this year that I have created a list (this may not seem like much of a big deal, but it was for me). For one thing, I realised that I have A LOT of things to get done...and well as a LOT of things I want to do....so I had better get stuck in.
On top of that list is doing something about my *stash*
It's still rather big.
I read somewhere that my kind of stash was now referred to as a SABLE.
Stash
Above and
Beyond
Life
Expectancy
That's me!
I decided to only buy fabric for specific projects that I will use ASAP - but as you have already guessed -it doesn't work like that,. You see a fabric, you love it, you know you could use it in that as yet undesigned quilt...you think of your groaning stash mountain and have second thoughts...and then you remember how whenever you don't purchase what you love right there on the spot - it sells out!
What's a quilter to do?