Summer Time

Summer time is certainly here and what a wonderfully sunny and warm week we've been having.... here is a little bright and summery sewing project i've been finishing off sitting in the shady/sunny garden.........a cherry patchwork potholder for my summer kitchen.............

 ...............the lovely fabrics are from the very talented lori holt's bake sale collection for riley blake and i couldn't wait to make something with them.................i bought them from here................loved making the hexies..............i want to do lots more hand sewing over the summer...........

 .............and the fabrics are so sweet,  especially the cherries on pink....and the recipe ones....and the lattice patterns........ and the kitchen utensils prints which look so pretty with some of my little kitchen cross stitch designs................the gingham edging is from another of my fabric favourites, pam kitty love :)...............

                ...........i will be showing more makes from these fabrics very soon................

 ..............there were lots of real cherries around this week....some delicious dark red ones from the greengrocer's and some small pretty ones dropping off our neighbour's ornamental cherry tree at just the right moment to be gathered up for my photoshoot................

 ..............the beautiful weather arrived just in time for my birthday....and thank you to everyone who left me such kind wishes for a happy day, you are all such lovely readers :).............we had a picnic in the country, a walk amongst beautiful rose gardens and afternoon tea there too.......and in the evening my daughter sarah and her hb and children came round with dinner for us and lovely presents.........

............ at the weekend we had more celebrations with all my dearies here.........thank you for your sweet wishes for my daughter rosie too...she had a lovely birthday as well, and got engaged on it!!....so our weekend was filled with romance, sunshine, blue sky, pimms, strawberries and cream, wonderful wimbledon tennis, meals and bbq's, family old and young........and lots of cake..................

 ...............some of my presents .......a rainbow of crochet hooks which are neatly enclosed in their own little stripy roll.........so looking forward to trying out the different sizes...........

 ..............a special jug with flowers from the garden, the nostalgic scent of the mock orange bringing back so many memories...........and below the sweetest little vintage inspired dog from northern primitives here........... so happy to have one of these little animals which i have long admired...............

                        ................other lovely treats will be appearing in future posts :).................

 ...............the flowers have been blooming away too, glad not to be battered by the wind and rain at last..........these pink roses are from a lovely big old rambly bush near the bottom of the garden which has a lot more blooms this year.................i love to arrange them with some alchemilla mollis.......

............a quick picture of the cutting garden as the sweetpeas begin their scramble up the canes and lots of little flowers begin to open up in the warmth too............i don't know how long this weather is going to stay, but this little scorchio spell has been amazing :).............thank you again for your kind wishes, comments and emails................wishing you happy summer days and lovely crafty times......back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx