Went to the farmer's market yesterday. So many choices now. I'm also starting to harvest more and more from my garden too. Today it was the first of the potatoes. It was so hard to choose what to make for dinner tonight. It ended up being a bread salad with the first of the local tomatoes.
There is also an abundance of things to choose from for dyeing. I'm trying some lady's mantle and marigold. I have them soaking in water right now. I'm also soaking some cotton in alum dissolved in water. It should grow some mold eventually....
I did find a little time to play with fabric too.
I've been playing with this off and on all day. It started with "What if I draw some daisies on white fabric with a marker? What if I fill the circles with fabric?" And then it went to "What if I put fabric in the petals?" Didn't like that. I kept thinking of possible ways that I could embellish. "What if I cut the daisies out and stitch them to another background? What if I fill in the petals with fabric paint? With french knots or some other kind of stitching? What if I add stems? What if I stitch the background? " I'd look at it and then walk away and do something else for awhile. Then I'd come back and look at it and then walk away again.
I keep coming back to the idea that I liked the simplicity of the flowers on a white background. I sewed a strip of squares to edge the white and then sewed it down to some flannel to give it some weight. I'm still thinking about doing some very simple stitching in the background, but I think simple is right here. It's probably going to end up as a pillow for the porch. The brownish fabric in the strips is some of the fabric I dyed with the hazelnut leaves.