my half of the brain

What a beautiful felt piece this is from wishfactory

springy piece unfinished on Flickr

Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane gives us her current plush in progress, Bwains. I love this!

Eggs in blue bowl on Flickr by jgcf

What a great idea!

Some things just make a girl smile. This picture over at wee wonderfuls definitely does it for me:

Evrimnazli posted this beautiful scarf on flickr today:

Jen Stark’s beautiful construction paper sculptures are making the rounds of blogland today, and deservedly so! Delicious!

At our favorite quilt store, if you go in on your birthday, you get a discount equal to 1/2 your age. Mom got a 31% discount today–you do the math.

Mom bought me this lovely fabric by Valori Wells (whose name I always have to delete an ‘e’ from.) It’s pre-cut as a kit to make this quilt, but we couldn’t afford the pattern too, so I’ll have to wing it.

I found another, free pattern downloadable from Free Spirit Fabric (the same fabric manufacturer) that may do the trick.

As I said in the last post, I was really drawn to the colors used for the yoyos. Here is a small hawaiian wall hanging I made several years ago as proof:

A close look will reveal I never finished the breadfruit leaves, but I bound it anyway. Maybe one day I’ll finish it.

I must have a yen for yoyos lately. These yoyos that Tricia dug out of her flickr pile are just brilliant! Totally my colors!

OK, I’m gonna have to become friends with Liz (aka Lady Harvatine), as she makes be-yoo-ti-ful quilts for the people she likes. This design was inspired by a quilt by Denyse Schmidt.

Lady Harvatine: Done and done.
The design takes full advantage of the two things I love most about
DSQ: #1, irregularity and the appearance of randomness in shapes and
placement and #2, the use of a neutral color as a background as opposed
to an all over design. And now that I’m on the subject I’ve thought of
another: #3, choosing a very high percentage of solid fabrics over
patterned ones. I really love the clean, modern look that you can
achieve this way. It makes the design really prominent and also makes
the few patterns that you do use really stand out. For this quilt I
used all solids except for one plaid for some of the stripes and a
flowered vintage-looking print for the backing.The design isn’t
totally random. I tried to work out how many stripes of each color I
would need and in which widths and lengths to keep it somewhat
balanced. I used the same number of each on either side and simply laid
them out randomly on the floor along with white strips of different
widths. I rearranged one or two stripes but was quite happy with my
initial “random” layouts.