I am sitting in my kitchen eating porridge (something I have eaten for years, not just since my relocation to the land we all associate with porridge) and outside although there is frost on the ground it is beautifully sunny. Not the cold winter sun but a warmer light that is spilling over the fields and already starting to chase the frost away. In my little flower beds I have some daffodils trying to decide if they want to open up or give it another week while others are little dare devils and the frost on the bench is so pretty and sparkly that I had to take a picture of it.
That's right, I think you guessed what I am thinking...Spring might actually be here! But shush, I don't want to scare it off. A couple of days ago I felt the urge to get out into the greenhouse and so I spent the morning clearing, digging, and preparing the beds all ready for a special year. For the first time since I was a little girl with a square of soil to fill with plants I am only growing flowers and herbs. No fruit nor vegetables for me this year as I am growing all of the flowers for our wedding. Yay!
After months of looking at flower catalogues and trying to decide how best to approach this it seemed best to decide what I want in my bouquet and work from there because that will decide the button holes and corsage for the mother of the groom and finally the flowers that will go on the tables. There will be more details to follow and pictures as the plants grow although it may be a little while as I only ordered them yesterday. The colours will be pastel shades of cream, pink and purple with some greenery added. My plan is to have a mixture of soft flowers with smaller textured ones. Of course I do like sweetpeas so maybe just a bunch of them.
As part of my seasonal urge there has been a little bit of tidying and my stash has had a massive overhaul. That's what I said, it has all been sorted and now resides in two big pine boxes one of new yarn with projects in mind and one of leftovers from projects which includes the 2ply white yarn from my munchkins' Christening shawl knitted over 12 years ago and some yarn I inherited from my Gran (I have no idea why she liked navy double knit so much). My plan is to knit charity projects from the leftovers and maybe a stash busting blanket but not for a while yet because something else fell out of my stash box...MY FIRST QUILT!! Oops, sorry to shout but I got a little bit excited there. You see, when my daughter was a toddler I went on a day course to learn how to do patchwork then I let her choose some fabric to make her a quilt for her cot bed. Huge mistake. It was bright Barbie pink and custard yellow. Now don't tell me you aren't wincing right now. I got as far as a stupidly complicated design scribbled on a piece of paper, sewing a few blocks and developed a deep deep regret before packing it all away amongst the yarn. So in the interests of Spring cleaning (there I go again, I hope I didn't jinx it) I dug it out and finish sewing the top of the quilt. Ta aaaa!
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| definitely needs pressing! |
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| She loves pink. |
I went to my local craft shop and bought the backing fabric, the binding fabric and the wadding and did not realise I do not have a free motion quilting foot so I ordered one online and as soon as it arrives I will shut myself in the kitchen until it is done (does anyone else hear that cackling?). I am really looking forward to finishing my first quilt and may even make a second once I take a serious look at all of my WIPs and future projects. I had been so organised until the sock diversion happened.
Oh, before I forget, the rose bush was very well received by OH's mum and my munchkins made me some cute cards and bought me knitpro interchangeable needle which I am thrilled with. They brought me cereal which I found about five minutes later and they made me toast for lunch; I am a very lucky mum.
Well looking back it has been busy and this has been a very picture heavy post but there has been so much I wanted to share with you.
Hugs from Haggis Land,
Jx
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