so far

 

so far

this fall has been, lemon cake, apple pie and Locke street market sunflowers.

it’s been escarpment edge hikes, felt and embroidery, sweaters, and knit hats and new friends.

and it’s been good, pretty darn good.

can you expect less of fall? Fall is a love of mine.

(lemon cake beautiful disaster zone)

(apple pie, sunflowers and coffee)

(family fall hikes)

These are my school projects so far:

For my first project I made a scarf. It’s wet felted from fleece, with soft inlays. You wet felt by laying out thin layers of felt, and then wetting it through with a soap and water mixture. Then you rub and rub and rub and rub until it hooks together as a unified fabric. The project theme was home and we were supposed to be experimenting with motifs. I cut the motifs of my families faces out of pre-felt ( a very soft hardly felted sorta felt) and felted them into my scarf base. And voila, aha!

Our second project was mixing color and line with felt. Last Wednesday we had an embroidery workshop. Which excites me, terribly. Embroidery is dreamy, and fantastic. Friend Caroline put up fantastically with my love gushing towards my sample all class.

So project two, color and line, turned into… mittens!

I’m awfully proud of these babies.
Horribly. They just behaved so well.

I just have one last picture: (picture overload! sorry! and I have so many more I still want you to see, from camping, the summer, ottawa, sault ste. marie, and so on and on and on) BUT! I headed out to art-crawl last friday night with friends Trevor and Caroline. In Caroline’s mind there is no passing these things up:

Dear me.