Thursday, December 3, 2015

- Let your light shine

Oh my goodness ... I just looked through my photos and realized how much I have yet to post! First off, an addendum to the last post, in which I neglected to show a backlit version ...

Note: I've also started to stitch months next to the rainfall totals

and the B-side...


It warmed my heart when three-year-old Griffin looked at the cloth Land of Flood and Drought and said, "It's beautiful. It looks like the blocks PopPop made for me." Here's a picture of that as a work in progress ...


and in its final form ...

Not the best lighting

The colors are a bit truer in this close-up, which shows Griffin inserting the removable orange G block (his favorite color, which you would expect from a kid growing up in longhorn territory) ...


I also have gotten permission from Maura Ambrose to post pictures of her work, so I'll be writing a follow-up about her natural dyeing workshop soon.

But for now, here's a picture of Spike, our unicorn deer neighbor ...


He's not saying how that happened ...