Thursday, August 30, 2012

SEAM meeting at fiddlehead, Spring re-capbeautiful

beautiful wool felt waiting to be turned into flowers!
 



these flowers are so sweet and can be made into a brooch or a hair bow!

In the Spring I taught this wool felt flower at the SEAM meeting at the lovely Fiddlehead Artisan Supply in Belfast. (Love their shop, it has everything a crafty girl could need!)
The pattern came from Colletterie, also a really lovely site chick full of how-tos and diy projects.

So here is what you need to get started:

Wool Felt
Scissors
Sewing Needle and thread
Pin Back or Barrette

Cut 2 lengths of felt in 2 different colors, sized about 2 by 5 and 2.5 by 5
Fold them in half and cut snip them all the way across leaving about 1/4 inch at the bottom of each piece- that is where you will be putting your running stitch

Do a running stitch along the bottom of each piece off felt an pull at the end to gather the felt.
Once you begin to gather it you will see the flower shape coming to life.
Once you have your flower use how you would like stitch a few stitches to hold it into place.

You will repeat this with the smaller piece of felt and then lay on on top of the other and sew them together to make the 2 tier flower.

Once your flower is all sewn up you can attach it to a Pin Back or a Barrette.

To see the tutorial in full that we followed and to see more sweet felt flower tutorials click here!



Saturday, August 25, 2012

new to the hoop & the shop!


next week we are going to have  NEW  crown in the shop!  our purple posie crown has been a favorite this year but recently someone ordered a custom crown in pink with posies. we adore the results and have decided to offer it in the shop!
what do you think?!

Friday, August 24, 2012

{this moment}

{a single moment from our week, one i want to remember}

Thursday, August 23, 2012

visiting hours

we have had such love surrounding silas' birth! so many friends have delivered meals, pies, and love.
a good friend set up a calendar on takethemameal.com and friends can drop into the site to sign up for a date and time to bring a meal to a family.
it has been a true blessing to receive healthful meals..so this week i'll feature a few!
today we had cukes and tomatoes from terri's garden to accompany wonderful sandwiches made by toki. terri also brought along some of her bread and butter pickles! toki made potato salad with beet greens form her garden...
all so good and so nourishing as well as the wonderful company!
little bits loves to help in  the kitchen..





ate these for breakfast too!

my sweet sweet ladies!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

breakfast in bed

with my little guy!
he loves to snuggle up and sleep! my mom is here and taking ever so good care of us all...the photo above is the kind of breakfast she turns out everyday! i told her "mom, it's so california!" fresh eggs, all bright and yellow and fresh fruit...yum.
i feel so loved and taken care of right now...and it is just what i needed.


thank mom!