September

The first of September today,
and after a few days of sunshine and rain
you can smell it in the garden :
autumn is near !

Oh sure,
there still are some raspberries on the bush
the rose has some flowers again
the phlox start blooming for the second
(or third) time
but something is changing
and I can smell it before I really see it.

But for my last Art Market I'm working
on some new items to take with me.
One is a new bird piece
bigger than the usual 20 x 20 cm.
The dark blue background was made already a long time ago,
now I have the right bird to go with it
a barn owl.

This was a week ago
but I was busy stitching and forgot to take
new photos of the progress yet.
The tiniest bits are attached now but lots more stitching is needed.

Besides all this there is the plan for some more felting too
. . . . . 

summer solstice (?)

Oh my, I can hardly believe it :
SUMMER ???
Cold and wet, that's all we can say about it.
(though there are other places in the world
that have a heatwave, right now !!!)

Our garden is GREEN,
though we have some other colours too :
the little rose bush, the foxgloves, many geraniums,
and now also the early phloxes.


I'm not really into this week's Stitch Club workshop
with whites, grays and browns, so I started
on a new background for some flower piece.
(30 x 40 cm)

The reds for the poppies aren't in place yet . . . but collected already.

The first step is stitching all of this,
mostly with some threads from a braid
that I made from a big thread-nest !