Maps and Leaves

This weekend's spring weather left me sidelined with bad allergy symptoms.  My husband calls me 'bubble girl.'  I am allergic to everything. 

Trees and grass are my undoing.  I love them, love the spring, love the summer.  My body, however, reacts like I am being attacked.  I have been getting allergy shots for almost ten years and each year I hope that I will be cured, that I will not have a bad reaction, that everything will be normal. No such luck!

Friday night walking the dog almost killed me with my eyes running and my chest wheezing.  When we got home, I washed all the pollen off me and sighed a little sigh acknowledging that my allergies just may never get better.

An upside to being stuck inside, it left me with some project time for this wreath that had been in my head for some time.

It involved cutting skinny leaves out of my vintage map book.  Gasp! Yes, I used one of my books I got at the annual library sale.  It has great patina and the leaves make it look interesting.

Here is a close up of the leaves:

Okay so there may be some camera shake...

See the leaves have all this interest from the maps.  Pretty cool.


So you get a sense of the wreath.

 

 

Here is a picture of the completed wreath.  It turned out smaller than I had wanted.  My intention is to put it in my tiny front entrance when I repaint it in a few weeks.  The smaller version may just work fine in that space.

 

 

 





Finished Wreath.  Neat idea.

Now that the weather is better and everyone sans me can go outside, I have a few more pages left in this map book.  Okay.  So who wants one?


Live High,

Heather

First Made by Me in May

If this weather does not get warmer, I will be wearing all my scarves for Made by Me May....


Throughout the month of May I am taking the pledge to wear something I have made at least two days a week.

Today is casual Friday and I have a few meetings with community members and I think I can risk the uber casual outfit.  I can't be the only person who is dog tired on Fridays?

Here is my comfy crocheted sweater.  It is big, cozy and perfect for a spring that just won't start:

Cool.  I am super cool.

I made this sweater twice, last year I made it much larger.  I like to forget I am only five feet tall and made the original for someone closer to six feet. I pawned if off on one of my staff.

 





Here is Esinam, much taller, younger and prettier.  I hope she wears that thing!

 

So here it is, done my first Made by Me May. 

 

 

Live High,

 

Heather

Made by Me May

Occasional readers of this blog will have noticed that I sew...a bit...okay, a lot. 

It has been alleged that I have a problem:

Busted!! Caught in the act at Fabric Land.

Not true!  Sewing presents a challenge and it is a nice change of pace in my busy life.

Made by  Me May has become an annual tradition in blog land.  Bloggers take a pledge to wear things that they have sewn themselves.  It can be once a week, a few times a week or if you are that good, every day.

Zoe, of So Zo What Do You Know, blog has hosted a "Made by Me May" for a few years now.  Readers of her blog take a pledge to wear more of the items that they have made for the month of May.  Most people document what they have made and link up to the site for the month. 



The skirt I debuted at an event last summer.

I have never taken part in this event before.  This year I am!  Typically, most of my sewing, crocheting focuses on summer wear - skirts are easy to make, tops that slip over the head, no darts, no buttons.  I have been working on summer clothes for a while (probably why spring was so late! Blame me!)  I have made a pledge on Zoe's blog to wear something made by me at least twice a week during the month of May.  I think I have enough items in my closet to make it. 

As part of the Made by Me pledge, bloggers are encouraged to post their outfits regularly to their blog.  This event is the brain child of Zoe, a UK based blogger and sewist extrodinaire.  Click on her name to visit her site.

Expect more frequent posts and please cross your fingers that the weather here in southern Ontario gets warmer as most of my made by me clothes are for warmer temperatures.

Until then,

Live High,

Heather