cosy boots
2008
It’s the Queen’s Birthday public holiday today – yes, the Queen’s birthday was several weeks ago but things take a while to trickle down to the colonies. So we’re at home, it’s rainy and grey and no one feels like going out. What to do …
Take an unfinished penny rug …
(I love these colours on the black pennies and lavender background)
(the colours look like the icing on these biscuits my grandmother used to send us when I was little – I think they were called Bo-peep biscuits and they came in a little tin looking like those that Alice ate in Wonderland – of course, they weren’t black!)
(that’s my knee – working on the penny rug again after so long, makes me want to make more penny rugs – I’ve just had the BEST idea for a penny rug for a baby’s room – mmm….)
add some more pennies …
whilst the other boots build lego …
invent marvellous space craft …
and eat more homemade maple syrup glazed fruit buns than you need to!
The perfect Queen’s Birthday for all those colonials who haven’t yet unpacked their gregorian calendar. By the way, thinking about that extra day in February, have you seen the new Prairie Schooler Samplers – hee! hee! hee! bought it already!
But I haven’t yet got this one .. definitely a must have!
I just LOVE Prairie Schooler – and these beautiful pictures are courtesy of the lovely Prairie Schooler website.
Back to stitching pennies …
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I love the penny-rug! It looks like a lot of work, though!
I love the penny rug, wow adding the color on top of the black looks wonderful.
who would have thought a purple background!
I have been wanting to do something like this with fabric…someday!
how big will this be? where are you planning on using it?
kathie
Lily,
Thanks for another look at your penny rug. The black makes the colours pop, and what beautiful colours they are.
Glad to see you had a chance to make use of the Monarchs Birthday to sew as well.
oh, i love penny rugs. thanks for reminding me of them. yours is lovely!
Beautiful! I love penny rugs…can’t stand the thought of stitching under a woolly wonder land right now since it’s hot as blazes here. Nonetheless, I can enjoy yours from a safe distance! Very cozy indeed!
Those glazed fruit buns look delicious! I can almost smell them wafting across the miles. ;-)
That penny rug looks great. Hm, I think there is some wool in the parcel from Keepsake I’m collecting at the post office tomorrow – maybe I should have a go…
See you had a nice Queen’s Birthday. Funny isn’t it, that she has different birthdays in all the colonies (I looked it up in Wikipedia) – I wonder why?
What a nice cozy day you had! It’s blessed to have families! :)
I love your penny rug, by the way. Curious mind wants to know just how many work-in-progress you are working on…. :) It seems to me no matter how many you have, you are keeping up with them quite splendidly!
Back to making pinwheels for me.