Flower Power.....

Hello everyone...

are you ready for the weekend?

Sadly, the weather has been pretty dismal in our corner

so no opportunities to spend time in our garden...

Not to worry, I've been growing flowers inside instead...
my little flower bed will eventually become a cushion
and I'm still enjoying having more ways to play with lovely yarns....
especially as crochet is so suited to one of my most favourite things....flowers
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Lots of tea drinking going on while flower making..

(This is one of my favourite cups and saucers which I purchased

from Pip Studio a while ago.. the colours are really pretty.

We have all types of odd cups and saucers in our house

both new and vintage...I think maybe I should show you one in each post!)

Gorgeous yarn....

Rooster Almerino DK which comes in an array of beautiful colours.

I've used it several times in my knitting in the past and 

it's just as lovely to use for crochet.

This bunting is going to be decorating my craftroom....

which I really haven't had the time to pretty up as much as I would like to and

I want to make it look lovely and summery...

It was a bargain in a sale at Laura Ashley a while ago and speaking of....

......it's lovely to read in Mollie Makes this month

that there's going to be an exclusive exhibition celebrating 

60 years of Laura Ashley's iconic designs...

A free event which is being held at

The Vinyl Factory in Soho 5-6th June 2013

I would definitely be putting the dates in my diary if I lived a little closer.

I'm a real fan of these vintage catalogues of the 1980's

and over recent years have collected almost all of them. 

The layouts are wonderfully creative and beautifully photographed with page after page 

of  fabrics, wallpapers, borders, tiles and trimmings....but I still need 1982!

Would you give me a shout if you ever come across it on your travels?

I've been looking for it for a long time now although I did find 

a 1982 book just a couple of days ago on Ebay and am waiting 

for my lovely postman to deliver it to our door!

(I wish they still sold those mixes of hexagonal patchwork pieces in the pic there)

Each catalogue has a wonderfully organised print index at the back

which is colour coded with swatches of all the individual designs and colourways.

The good news is that they will be launching a new collection 

of their most popular archive wallpapers and fabrics for autumn/winter 2013

and I'm really looking forward to seeing the choices.

I've gained quite a collection myself of their vintage fabrics over recent years 

in different colourways (predominantly rose and sapphire....my favourites)

and have plans to make a quilt at some point using them all...

until then they are carefully stored away in the magic cupboard

(fabrics mainly found on good old Ebay)

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My quilt top, which I showed you in the last post, now has a border

(and yes, I definitely like the strawberry red)

and the backing fabric arrived today so I can share that with you next time 

I've also been working on my knitting

......busy, busy bee.....

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I had a sudden urge to pop into the garden to take this pic

just before I posted....the last of the blossom on our cherry tree

as it will soon be gone for another year

It doesn't last long enough, does it?

(Ooh, and it's not too warm out there today!)

Fingers crossed for some sunshine over the weekend

...Hope you have a good one...

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 Thank you as always for calling by

...you are the best...

P.S I've been doing some blog visiting this morning
and have loved looking at those beautiful pics of bluebell woods on friends blogs
...thank you for sharing them Faith , Jane and  Vivienne...it's been a lovely treat!