Rowan Tree Cottage

A baby quilt for my goddaughter's daughter born this month. After making the Splendid Sampler Quilt for a year in pink and greys, this was the last colour combination in the world I wanted to do, but those are the colours her mother said her room will be in. It has blue tit birds and cow parsley and bees on, so it suits August. A cover for her medical book with cone flowers on. They are in flower in the garden, so again suitable for August. These are the first wheel turned pots I have made! There was an entire day allowed in the pottery room and boy did I need it to learn the technique. Really proud of them. Everything survived the biscuit firing. They need painting in glazes next. Let me show you the Forest nearest the cottage. Crystal cobwebs with diamond dew drops. A spider's hole. Dead Men's Fingers funghi. Cow parsley. So many mushrooms appear overnight after the rain. This is a special very old beech tree I call the Shroomy Tree as so ma...

 I had a lot of odd balls of cheap acrylic yarn, so with an eye towards a fast approaching Autumn, I set out to make each dog a blanket of their own. Arthur's colour is blue, so I made sure to include blue in his. The colours were inspired by looking up through the oak leaves at a blue Summer sky.  Dobby's colour is red. Her blanket is in sunset colours.  Lyla's colour is bright pink. This (sunglasses worthy) loud blanket used up the brightest colours I had! Squeak's colour is pale pink. It looked good teamed with all my grey scraps, some acid green and petrol blue. As Squeak is bigger than the others, so is her blanket. A friend's elderly mother rescued an elderly yorkshire terrier. This granny square was made from the left overs of the leftovers. A coil pot having been biscuit fired. I followed my pottery teacher's advice for how to pit fire pottery in the garden. It is an ancient technique with 40% breakage rate. After a restless night...