all the things

I am doing a lot of stuff right now.  It involves glue, paint, embroidery thread, Bottom Line thread, Liberty fabrics, hunks of wood, thrifted objects, and lots and lots of sockyarn.  

Folk Flowers

Here is one thing!  Almost done, working on the last motif.  Got a dowel yesterday, need wooden beads for the ends of the dowel, as well as some nice gray cord.   

 

Ruby May Quilt

Here is another thing!  After plowing straight through 300 petals, then organizing them into little petal piles, I plowed through seven flowers and then stalled in the middle of the 8th. 

 

Art!  Or something.

Now I'm using all the little tiny offcuts of the petals to create built-up... paper/media/fabric-but-not-because-of-all-of-the-glue.  Then I'm cutting words out of that.  

Man, my light is so bad.  

So, woo, I like that, but now I need places to put them.  So I got some little canvases and thrifted some frames and a round bamboo coaster thing and this thing: 

which is actually made out of paper glued onto particle board of some sort.  It's pretty awful.  I'd like to find a source for offcut bits of wood that I could use, keeping on the scrap/upcycling theme, but it seems stupid to order $60 worth of wood from across the country.  I'm hoping that paint and glue will be enough to turn this thing into something someone would like to display. 

Here's one little one that's almost finished.  One kid is operating a pop-up braided items shop in our living room occasionally, so I've acquired some long braids of embroidery thread that will be incorporated somehow. 

This one is just a little block of wood that I'll attach a sawtooth hanger to the back of.  

Because I don't need more than about three items with "hope" written on them, I'm planning to open the etsy shop back up.  That will be a good outlet for the flood of finished socks in all the same colorways:

Oh yes, and it was mitten time, so I've started some mittens.  

 

These are Shetland Peerie Mittens, and I'm brazenly stealing the color scheme from another Raveler.  It took the mitten a lot of convincing to get me to realize that I'd neglected to do the increases after the cuff, but I finally got the message and am moving again.  The next round is supposed to be blue and green, but the colors look so close that I'm hesitating to use them together and am therefore a little stuck.  

Happy crafting!