Flowers, Flowers Everywhere

 I have been busy.  Actually, I have been very busy, you just can't tell from these photos.  The Japanese Flower Shawl is coming along slowly.  It takes me a bit a of time to complete one of these flowers, so the fact I have 11 completed is frankly amazing.  I would have had 12, but I apparently can't count to 12.  On the brown, beige and red flower I have 13 petals.  Well that wasn't a tragedy as I can keep it on the outside and no one will know.  But unfortunately I did it again in the middle, with the light green flower, and I had to rip it apart.  Maybe I need to go back to preschool and work on counting to 12.

 I really like some of the color combinations and others I am not too crazy about.  I plan on repeating many of the flowers, as I am assuming I will be making about  49 of these before I am done.  For some reason I am having a more difficult time with the color combinations than I thought I would.  Hopefully it will get easier as I go along.

 I thought I would send you some photos of my garden.  It is starting to fill in a bit and not look so newly planted.  We have had unseasonably warm weather for the Spring.  It is lovely after a chilly winter.  But on the other hand, summer is so hot and humid here that I am not ready to jump into it so quickly.  A lovely day like today with the high of 72 degrees and low humidity is perfect.

 My geranium is in full, beautiful bloom.  She sits right outside of my kitchen window.  I love to see her beautiful color when I am sitting at my table in the morning drinking some tea.

And finally, number 15 is complete.  I forced myself to sew this hexagon bag together on Sunday.  It was a bit boring and tedious, especially as there were crochet flowers tempting me every time I turned around.  I felted it that very day and put it outside to dry.  Note to self:  Remember to bring drying felted item inside before it rains.  Yes, it got all wet again and must have absorbed a gallon of rain water.  It has taken til today to get some what dry.  And unfortunately it smelled musty so I put it in the dryer for a quick spin with a dryer sheet.  It is looking much better now.  I attached the handles with a piece of felt and buttons just like in my previous bag.  I should have taken a closer picture to show you.  Hope you like the final product.

Have a wonderful week and find some time to do the things you really love.