Temari: Bellflower

Continuing in my spring flower temari theme, the next pattern I decided to do out of Barb’s book was “Bellflower.” Her original design called for a lighter blue background, but I had some brighter, darker blue already, so I used that, and I think it turned out quite nicely. I also recall that the original [...]

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Where do all these books come from?

Jennie recently blogged about where she finds recommendations and inspiration to read various books. In the spirit of turning her original post into a sort-of meme, I’ll start my list the same way she did hers.
Here are the books I read so far this month and why I picked them up:
On Basilisk Station and The [...]

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Temari: Trillium

Spring has been coming in fits and starts here, so back at the beginning of March, I was rather longing to see some flowers, so I cracked open my copy of my temari teacher’s book and starting doing some flower-themed patterns. This one is called “Trillium,” and I was very pleased with how it turned [...]

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What I’ve been doing

Whoops, sorry, didn’t mean to abandon the blog for nearly a whole month. I’m still around. What I’ve been doing:

Enjoying spring. The redbuds are almost entirely gone and the cherry blossoms are definitely gone, but the dogwoods and azaleas are all out now, so I need to take some more pictures for you. Oh, and [...]

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