Blog entries tagged Green

Mud Pies and Sewing

Shelley — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:55:54 +0100

Fun stuff in the mailbox today - my order of floss from The Workroom arrived. I now have everything I need to make the March and April designs in the Dessert of the Month Club. The little collection above is the colours I'll be using to make this cute St. Patrick's Day cake-pop. April's design is still a mystery but the colours for it are below. I'm thinking maybe something cara...

Buggin' Out

Shelley — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:07:28 +0100

Pattern: Buggin' Out by Stephen Houghton for the 2010 Rockin' Sock Club (September Kit)
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Pining 4 Ewe" and "Manly yes, but I like it too"
Size: Men's Medium
Yardage: Full skein (330 m) of "Pining for Ewe" and about 17 m of "Manly"
Needles: 2.00 mm dpns

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These socks...

Rockin' Sock Club: September-October 2010

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:05:01 +0100

So you all know exactly what I did as soon as I finished my last post right? I cut open my sock club package (and then remembered the handknit socks that had been sitting in the sink in the laundry room for the last hour while I was typing and rushed to wring them out and hang them up) and pulled out the yarny goodness inside.

The sock club so far has been pretty representative...

Rose Cottage : A Layout

Shelley — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:34:08 +0100

I've been meaning to blog this for ages. It's a layout I made for my scrapbook this summer and I was just so please with how it came out. They don't usually look quite this good.

Materials:
- Paper (front and back of the same sheet) and buttons from...

Ladybug, Ladybug

Shelley — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:01:49 +0100

I've been meaning to post these pictures all week but somehow couldn't come up with any good words to go with them. Does anyone have some useful suggestions for dealing with writer's block? My current method of "wait until you find good words" works but is very slow. Anyway, onwards about cake.

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My family has a very good pound cak...

The Quilt on Our Bed

Shelley — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:41:49 +0100

This was my January project. I ordered the fabrics back in October or November when I was getting other things for birthdays and Christmas. January and February are always rather bleak months here. The light is starting to come back but we're just reaching the coldest part of the year and the idea of spring is far away. Even March can be pretty bitter. This year I wanted something...

Covered

Shelley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:50:02 +0100

New covers for some nude cushions in our living room. I am in love with laundered quilting right now. All that squashy wrinkled fabric between rows of neat stitches just makes me feel cozy. I didn't want my covers to shrink later on so I actually washed these before sewing the quilted pieces together to make the covers (I ran a zig-zag stitch around the raw edges to cut down on the amount o...

Another Washcloth

Shelley — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:47:51 +0100

Pattern: Classic Washcloth from A Knitter's Book of Yarn by Clara Parks
Yarn: Knit Picks Crayon in Lime (8054) and Azure (8051)
Size: about 12.5" x 12.5" (32 cm x 32 cm) before washing
Yardage: 90% of the Lime and 10% of the Azure
Needles: 3.25 mm bamboo

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Another finished knit. The opposite of the first one. I don't really have anyt...

I Finished Something!

Shelley — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:59:32 +0100

Pattern: Classic Washcloth from A Knitter's Book of Yarn
Yarn: Knit Picks Crayon in 8051 (blue) and 8054 (green)
Size: 12.5" x 12.5" (32 cm x 32 cm) before washing
Yardage: about 90% of the blue ball and 10% of the green ball (meaning I can make another one with the colours the other way around)
Needles: 3.25 mm bamboo

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This is the firs...

Potted

Shelley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:40:10 +0100

When Samera showed up at my tea party last month (a wonderful surprise as I thought she was 1800 km away) the first thing she did was present me with goodies. There was some giant rick-rack - for purposes yet to be determined - and some delicate lace - perfect for a project I was thinking of - and a piece of mint.

Being me, I can remember Samera telling me what kind of mint it was bu...

The Heat Arrived

Shelley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:47:19 +0100

Today I wish I could photograph smells. We're having our first days of really hot weather (hot for us anyway) and everything smells delicious. The air is full of flowers and cut grass and water and earth. The humidity is up and the sun gets a pretty, hazy cast to it. Environment Canada suggested we have a thunderstorm today but so far it hasn't turned up.

I went for a walk th...

Random Image #13

Shelley — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:12:59 +0100

Snap peas.
Part of my dinner the other day.
I shared with Abby.

Look what's growing in our kitchen...

Shelley — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:19:32 +0100

No, it's not mould.

A while ago I put some cuttings from my African Violets in little pots of soil to see what would happen. I've been keeping an eye on them and giving them water whenever the pots felt dry. They seemed a little secure for leaves stuck in dirt and I was hopeful that something was happening but I didn't have any proof until last week.

One ...

These Are My Legs

Shelley — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:57:55 +0100

Rob gave me these stockings. All of last week was so grey and wet (except for Friday when we woke up to discover snow on the ground - pretty, but it's still snow in September) that I was getting quite depressed; these stockings are so bright and green that they banish greyness. I smile every time I look at my feet.

I've been meaning to make some sort of holder for all m...

Portable Shade

Shelley — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:19:00 +0100

It's hot here today. At least by my standards (which include temperatures almost 70 degrees colder than it is right now). The sun feels very bright and there isn't much wind either. I managed to get a tan line on my shoulder while we sat outside for lunch and even in the office my skin felt sticky. By the time work was over though I had a plan...

When I woke up this morning I...

Branching Out

Shelley — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:15:46 +0100

I got right into playing with plants yesterday. My parents had been over and we'd showed them around our yard and talked about some of our ideas for it. After they left I'd watered and deadheaded my outside pots and remembered that a couple of my indoor plants needed deadheading too (they also needed a lot of water). I decided to tidy up the violets a bit after getting rid of the old fl...

Home Grown

Shelley — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:13 +0100

Yum.

We grew this strawberry ourselves (I know - it's a funny shape). I picked it after work today when I was watering my plants and washed it off and put it on the table. The sun hit it and when I walked back into the kitchen to collect it I could smell strawberries in the air. Mmmm. We each ate half and it was delicious. Sweet and flavourful as only a home grown strawberry can ...

Socks and Some News

Shelley — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:08:49 +0100

Pattern: Toe-up variation of Donyales by Black Dog Knits
Yarn: Oceanwind Knits, fingering in Rainforest
Size: 60 stitches around (to fit my feet)
Yardage: 2 skeins, roughly 300 yards
Needles: 2 mm, 5" rosewood

After much procrastinating I am finally finished my socks (err. well actually, after I finished taking my pictures and walking around in them for most ...