Friday, April 18, 2008Yes... but is it fiber?! Our local supermarket has new plastic bags, a lighter weight, but strong. In a transparent light green color with a teence of darker green print. The produce bags are an even paler, nearly white, green with a little darker green print... very color coordinated! But I was dinking around with them and found that cut into strips about 1/2-3/8" wide and looped together they make a nice ribbon looking 'yarn'. I wove this square to see what it would look and act like. It looks very pretty, I think, with a nice conservative shine sort of like the artificial raffia I once bought. I have a fair collection of these bags and I think I'm going to get out the 12" square and make some summer placemats for the picnic table. You can find instructions for these on the web page. http://www.hazelroselooms.com/project_files/ThankfulThanksgiving.pdf They should be washable by hand tho I expect you won't want to set anything too hot on them. Your color scheme will be determined by what your local store carries! But mine were pretty easy to weave, which is one thing I wondered about. Just cut the handles and the bottom seam off the bag, lay it out flat, and start folding it evenly. That way you can cut the loops easy, once you have it folded about 3" wide. Then just loop them together and weave. I'm going to fringe mine so just keep any color change ends on opposite sides and the tails will blend right in. If you want to share pictures, I'd love to see what you get! 
posted @ 12:26 PM PST [link] Thursday, April 17, 2008Bloomin' Flowers! Indeed, there are many of them. The tree's too... plum, peach, the sour cherry, and bulbs galore, but here's my favorite, which I got as checkered lily, tho I see it called many other things. There's only one of them left but it's faithful. I guess I should buy it some companions. We have wild fritillary... Red Bells... but I've never managed to transplant any to the bed, or get the seeds to sprout there. We go from 80 degrees one day to barely 60 the next. I guess that's why it's called spring... Mother Nature springs back and forth before she makes up her mind to summer!  Hope it's bloomin' where you are, too! posted @ 10:32 AM PST [link] Sunday, April 13, 2008A beautiful April Weekend! The temp hit 80 both Saturday and Sunday! It was lovely! You have to look hard to find any snow berns left at this elevation and the grass is greening and the flowers blooming! This is the old pear tree in the back of the shop. The sour cherry is also blooming, as are the wild ones. There is a slight chance of showers Monday evening but the rest of the week looks good and the warm tho temperate temperatures should stay around awhile. The weekend was made more pleasant by a visit from both my sister Rosy and Randy's cousin and his wife. We all made the most of the warm weather & copied the cats. We basked! lol  Hope you had sunny and warm, too!posted @ 07:02 PM PST [link] |
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