Month: June 2012

Another bonnet to be

The roses I cut on Sunday from the backyard continue to be gorgeous on the table six days later.


After breakfast, Kevin offered to give me sewing time (this project has been on the back burner for a while, for a friend’s baby that was born a few weeks ago). So I cut fabric, and couldn’t resist a picture with the “matching” roses before heading off to go sew.

Roses

Roses blooming in the backyard, noticed by accident on the way by with the kiddo this morning (we were planting pumpkin starts – three from the farmers market, and 6 from Nicole and Brian’s extras. If even some of them make it, we’re going to have quite the pumpkin patch in the fall!)

After Kevin took this photo, he snipped them and brought them into the house. They look extravagant and gorgeous on the table. This is from one of the three bushes that I prune once a year and ignore the rest of the time. Benign neglect suits them. I think they really like the mulch that we added last summer – so many more leaves than they used to have.

Newborn bonnet

We’ve reached that stage of pregnancy – here’s a grapefruit on the counter modeling my latest project.

It’s reversible.

With piping on both sides.

I loved this pattern – surprisingly simple to sew, even though the store bought binding looked terrible, and my replacement home-made binding should have been wider (I was almost out of the pink fabric, though, so it will have to do). This is a “pictures don’t do it justice” item, not because the detail is lacking, but because it looks so very tiny. Impossible to have something that teeny not look adorable.

Wonder if it will fit? If it does, it probably won’t for long. I’ll definitely have to make more in bigger sizes.