Blossomed out

Here are close ups of the almond blossom pieces. I was so excited about them when I started that I did two in a row and I'm blossomed out now.


I just finished the second this morning, and am impatiently awaiting SharonB's March challenge.


Meanwhile, I bought a metre of this shocking orange satin fabric at the market on Saturday for 1Euro. It is truly screamish and makes me feel energized to embroider it.


I've had loads of ideas for it, but found this almost finished piece of treillage and thought I'd complete it using some purpley-blue Colinette in my stash, then mount it on the orange satin.

As ever, the colours are not quite what they are in real life, but you get the general idea.

Almond Blossom

Went for a walk this afternoon and remembered to take the camera! The almond blossom has already started and is gorgeous against the sapphire sky, with its decorative balls of mistletoe.


The little purse now has some lines of kantha quilting on it and looks a bit like the almond blossom. I'm definitely going to do some more embroideries based on the photos I took today...

Meanwhile, back at the Februray TIF challenge, here are two more tasters taken with the macro setting on the camera - the colours aren't too far off from reality.
I "read" SharonB's palette for the February challenge as light, medium and dark blue and light and dark orange.

Went to the market in the Bastide St. Louis on Saturday for fruit and veg, and was surprised to see the mimosa already on sale.


These orange peppers made me feel springtime and happy.

As did these bright bouquets. It seems I have bright colours on the brain.

I did this "book cover" for my notes and sketches for the courgette flower bag and just thought I'd put them here to show that I sometimes do sketching and painting before leaping into a piece.
Enjoy.

I found a slideshow thing on MSN, so I've put more almond blossom pix on that blog if you wish to have a look, together with some old pieces. You just click on the album and the slideshow cycles through all by itself ... MixPix