My Creative Gene Kicked In

I’ve been feeling creative. The whole media art phase was an epic fail. – I have no talent in that area of the arts. I can sew, however, so when the “creative” bug hit me – I organized the painting paraphernalia on shelves and pulled out the sewing stuff.

We are always on the lookout for place mats for our table. So I decided to make some that (hopefully) will be washable and very usable.

On Valentine’s Day, the husband and I headed to Material Girls Quilt Shoppe armed with these pictures on my phone:

I wanted to coordinate the colors of these flowers as much as possible.

First of all – let me say, I had never been to Material Girls and can honestly say I truly enjoyed my shopping experience while there.  If any of you shop the way I do, you will understand.

The first thing I do in a fabric store is walk completely through the store and look at all their fabric and the way they have the fabrics displayed, then once I have a good feel for the place, I begin picking and choosing my fabrics.

Besides the pictures above, I was also armed with the book that I had chosen a pattern out of. – sort of. I combined 2 patterns and tweaked them to what I wanted.

I used this book:

and combined these patterns:

         

It was good to be back in the sewing room.

         

         

         

I made 4 of these.

and 4 of these:

I’m pleased with the way they turned out and like the way they fit into my kitchen color scheme.

More Wild Turkeys–From a Friend

Yesterday I posted about spotting some wild turkeys while leaving the farm. Later my friend Bonnie sent me a picture of the wild turkeys in her yard! She got a much better picture than I could get from the road.

Published with permission of Bonnie Whitley.

Thank you, Bonnie, for sharing your wild turkeys!

I’m looking forward to the green of spring!

Wild Turkeys

Last week when I left the farm I saw wild turkeys out in the field and stopped the van to watch them for a couple of minutes. I wish I could have gotten better pictures! I used to have wild turkeys come up in my yard quite often so I was glad to get a glimpse of these birds after living in the city for 3 years.