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xo, K
I love the month of August. I love knowing that the frenzy of summer is drawing to a close, and that cooler weather and many festivals that I love dearly are in store. All of this begins, here, with blackberries, wild and sweet. I admit, I was a little early (they’ll be much better next week), but once I began to see some ripening, I couldn’t resist. My favorite herald of the changing of the seasons.
Looking for the ripest ones.
Thistles just beginning to lose their lavender fluff.
A handful of late summer.
Wild rosehips (we’ll be back for these — rosehip tea!).
Almost really ready.
Just enough jam…
to have over ice cream, with sliced peaches, fresh from the farmers’ market. Yum.
Every person is an artist. Art is not about painting a picture which sells for millions but about expressing the images alive in the soul. It is about finding the spirit in all its beauty embedded and embodied in material things. Our house and home, our garden, our environment is the canvas on which homemakers express their art. Creativity is imaginative thoughts and feelings offered to the glorious world for ourselves and others to perceive and enjoy.
Veronika Van Duin, Homemaking and Personal Development: Meditative Practice for Homemakers
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I was waiting until I made Birdie’s nightgown to do this post, but strangely in this heat wave all I could think about was knitting! I started a new knitting project instead of finishing her nightgown, though I’m sure I’ll finish it soon, and then I’ll show you. In the meantime, I wanted to give you the details on Bunny’s nightgown.
It’s made from this pattern. This option is the one Bunny chose; Birdie chose option C (but I will probably do the top from A with the bloomers — she won’t remember, fortunately).
I think nightgowns are really coolest for summer nights, don’t you? I used some dotted swiss from JoAnn’s. It isn’t as light as I would have liked (certainly not as light as a batiste) but it was still nice. Next time I want to get some of this.
I have a whole bag of vintage shell buttons I’ll probably be using forever. They have such a lovely weight to them, not like plastic at all. Buttonholes on the sewing machine are still tricky for me, even after many years of sewing. I often handfinish them just to avoid doing them on the machine. I did these on the machine, and they’re still not as tidy as a handsewn buttonhole!
If you’d like to try handsewing a buttonhole, here are a few links:
- How to hand-sew a buttonhole
- Stitches for buttonholes
- Sewing Buttonholes (good tip here — always put interfacing under where you will be sewing buttonholes!)
- Hand sewn (period!) buttonholes
Work is love made visible.
Khalil Gibran
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