Yellow is the color for June in the rainbow scraps challenge. The most challenging thing for me about working with yellow scraps is that, like others, I just don't have many of them. I enjoyed making the small pink yo-yos last month (for a project that is not yet finished) so I thought I'd make some yellow flowers using the Clover tool–purchased at a quilt show a long, long time ago, but never used . . . until now.
Here are my first efforts.
I was thinking of black-eyed Susans when I added big black beads to the centers . . . even though these flowers really look nothing like them. My idea was to chain them together and use them as a hatband for a wide brimmed straw hat that I'm cleaning up and re-working, but once they were in place, I didn't like it :-(
I'll wait for some new inspiration.
While I like the Clover tool, I don't think I'll be makng more flowers from quilting cotton. I think it would be wonderful to use with a silk chiffon, a handkerchief linen or other lightweight fabric. The flowers finish around 1 3/4 inch wide. I also bought the smaller 1 1/4 flower tool.
On a more successful note, I removed the blocking wires and T-pins from my shawl (Grace helped) and I am quite happy with the result. 
World Wide Knit in Public Day is being celebrated this week–I haven't heard of any public knitting events near me, but I'll be casting on a new project soon and being on the lookout for kindred knitters.
5 comments:
Those flowers are wonderful and that knitting is incredible! I would love to learn to knit. I don't have time, but would still love to learn. :)
xx, shell
Thought of you as we buzzed through Austin yesterday on the way home. In which part do you live?
Love the black-eyed-Suzies =-) And that shawl is fantastic! Really nice...it'll be a fun one to wear!
Those flowers are a great use of the scraps. They are darling with those beads! You knit too? I knit but only simple stuff. Your shawl is incredible.
Hi Sophie, I love the Black Eyed Susans - I'm gonna watch out for that nifty tool! I'd make tham into a long hippy type necklace with beads or buttons every so often (saw something like it in an old French Marie Claire magazine) it looked great.
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