Sky Blue Pink

 This week i have been enjoying playing with fabrics....making a little quilt for a magazine project which i will reveal when it is published.....and making some sweet sewing notions using the lovely lecien fabrics i received recently.............

 .............the garden is filled with tiny flowers at the moment, perfect to pick for posies to enjoy in the sewing room while i work................

 ..............i made a needle book using random hexagons and new flower sugar fabric......

 .................and i made a pincushion by fussy cutting the flower posies to fit the hexagons in a more intentional way..........quite a different look, and interesting to see what effects fussy cutting creates....

 ............finally i made a little scissor keep using two of the hexagons sewn together and padded with a little bit of toy filling and attached with a long ribbon......i love having a scissor keep on my scissors( it stops them sliding down the side of the sofa)........i used to make cross stitched ones for my sharp little stork scissors, but now i make all kinds with different fabrics......

 ..............this week the apple blossom has opened and looks so pretty...........

 ..............i picked one small sprig to photograph close up.........below is the inside of the needle book, showing the rose print lining and the bright pink felt pages ready to fill with needles.............

 ..............seeing the colours of the photos for this post, and especially the apple blossom on the blue painted background is what gave this post its title......as a child i loved the idea of a colour called sky blue pink, even though i knew it was a joke and a fictitious colour, it just sounded so nice :)............sometimes at sunset the sky above the sea where we live has stripes of beautiful light blues and pinks.........sky blue pink could be a real colour then....

 ............the good news here this week is that the painting of the house outside is all finished :D......so glad.......and it's may now too....one of the most lovely months of the year............when i went up to the attic last week to open windows for 'the men' to paint the frames i found some packets of old cards from granny's attic, still not sorted out.......these lexicon cards were among them.....could be fun for paper crafting and scrap booking, i think.................

 ..............and speaking of paper crafting here is my project for this month's issue of crafts beautiful....a crafter's notebook, with some cross stitch tags and a stitched label..........you can find out more about the magazine online here...............

 ...............today is a bank holiday here in the uk, and we actually have sunny weather........

 ...........the weekend began with a very cold (freezing) and miserable day but now it has blossomed into blue sky and sunshine so we are going to make the most of it........in a little while i will be planting sweetpeas and beans..............and then we will take molly for a long country walk.............

................thank you for dropping in to my crafty blog world, lovely readers, and thank you for your very kind comments and emails too........wishing you a wonderful week ahead with sunny days and crafty times................back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx