Time Out - Domestic Stuff

Breakfast stuff that is.
I DO like to cook but I'm not very adventuresome. Hubby does most of the cooking but the COMFORT FOOD falls to me. Recipes that are sacrosanct from our (MY?) youth.

Breakfast stuff.
Roughly every three weeks I need to restock the larder with breakfast. And of course we have different wants. Oatmeal raisin cookies for hubby.....👨

and granola with cranberries for me 😇

I usually do them the same day. It ends up taking about 2+ hours.
 
Same stuff.. summer and winter.
Now back to work!

New Year, New Work

I found a sliver of time this week. The scheduled workshop has been postponed as most of the members are down with the flu. So I turned this morning to an Art Piece that caught my eye and imagination a few months ago.

Something about this just struck a cord. Today I dove in.
I'm a bit hampered by the self impose moratorium on fabric buying but a hunt through my stash this morning gave me a good start.

The only colour I'm not happy with is the violet. Most Of my fabrics are too pink. I'll look one more time but I just may have to SPEND money.

4:00 PM - I spent money.

Tweaking the Landscape samples

Finishing each one took over an hour. In the summer piece, the plaid annoyed me the whole time. This piece would not stand alone as a landscape but the addition of a focal point, tree or animal would conceal it enough. The colours were good but the plaid a little too aggressive.

Autumn is so satisfying on many levels. There is so much colour it's difficult to go wrong. Variegated threads work very well here adding the colour burst in the forests, even in the evergreens.

Winter is winter, stark and empty. With a minimal finish, its crying out for a orchard tree or some other object. The sky is half finished in two different threads. The left side in mono filament and the right a closely matched pale blue. Either one fits.

Landscape Samples

Our workshop date is a week from now. In addition to assembling material packages for each participant, I have a few samples to finish.

In this instance I focused on colour only. For all 3 I used the same basic landscape design, not too far off the natural landscape of the Georgetown area, a neutral view they would all be familiar with.

I chose colours from my scrap bags to represent 3 seasons: winter, summer and autumn.
Tomorrow I'll 'tart' them up a bit with some thread sketching.

Otters in their New Home

Momma's happy!
Child is happy!
Great start to 2018!