Color Play

Today I share a spot of bright color.  The projects I have been working on recently are not blog-worthy (or picture worthy).  They mostly involve cleaning out closets and entire rooms in my house.  When I moved into my house four years ago I designated one of the basement rooms as a craft room but it has been nothing more than a storage room for all of that time.  Recently I have reached “critical mass”, so to speak.  I am frustrated at my inability to find things I know I own and often resort to buying more since that is easier than unearthing the missing items.  So I have been trying to unpack boxes, create storage and generally whip things into shape in that room.  But like any project, to clean one room usually means to clutter another (I always think of that tile game I played as a kid with one empty space to move tiles to) so this project will take some time to complete.  I’ll post a picture when I am finished.

The colorful bits above, though, are one project I have finished amidst all of the chaos.  Next Wednesday, September 15, I will be teaching the program at my local American Sewing Guild Neighborhood Group meeting.  We will be making kanzashi flowers (you can see some examples by clicking on the Kanzashi tab in my Category listing) and I have been prepping all of the necessary materials.  So this is also a little sneak peek for those of you who are coming to the meeting – these are the fabrics and buttons we will be working with.  I love how these fabrics work together.  They are from Sandy Gervais’ Frolic collection by Moda.

I hope to see lots of you at the meeting next week and look forward to seeing what you create with bits of colored fabric.