Yellow

A little selection of Yellow from my work table.


A little fabric rose from my Yellow bin. I don't really have much Yellow fabric, I might have to go and hunt for some the next time I go shopping.




A little Yellow wooden heart. This is one of 4 - coasters I am sure, but they sit up on my window sill and make me happy.


I thought it would be hard to find anything Orange - no Yellow was much harder. This is the only piece of work I own that really has any Yellow that makes an impact. It is a detail of another of my Mum, Felicity Aston's pieces.

Orange

Orange is not my favourite colour. The only room we painted when we moved in to our house was our living room and thats because it was Orange and I couldn't live with it. I don't even have an orange fabric bin. I have to admit it does look nice with Blue though (complementry colour and all). I thought Orange photographs would be hard but as it happens I do have some stuff.

This is a patched wall hanging that my aunt gave me when I was 13 or so. It features indian shisha work (mirrors) and beautiful embroidery, cut from vintage clothes or textiles and reassembled. It is one of the pieces of my high school bedroom that has made the journey over here. I did read somewhere that a lot of family heirlooms were being lost this way as people sold them to make some money, that makes me sad, but I really do appreciate the hard work that went into each piece.

I have a beautiful african wall hanging that my friends from Kenya gave us as a wedding gift. My wall needed a little something more to add to it. This is a basket that I bought at a discount store here. It hangs with its friends up on my wall beside the wall hanging. I have a notion to collect more in different sizes and keep adding to them.

Red

This is from my Gap T-shirt made in South Africa for Project Red (label below) this t-shirt makes me feel good! I also bought one that says Bo(RED) which doesn't really have the same uplifting sentiment. Happily I wear this one a lot more, and since this blog is really supposed to inspire me I think it is a much more appropriate. You can buy lots of RED products over at http://www.joinred.com


This is my Big Red Stripey Linen Log Cabin Quilt. When we moved into our house the Master Bedroom was painted Dark Red. We didn't really want to spend a lot of time painting so we just moved ourselves in. Of course nothing we owned went with a dark Red Bedroom. I decided to make a log Cabin Quilt for Our Bed. It is my first usable Quilt and I of course decided to make it a King size (we only have a Queen) in case we upgrade any time. This took me months to make. The fabric graduates from Deep Reds and Purples on the Bottom Right side to Creams and pinks on the Top Left. I probably used around 20 fabrics all stripey linen, and then bleached and dyed to get my colour range. I couldn't say exactly how many different colours came out of it. I have better pictures somewhere but I can't seem to find them on my computer.

Finally this is my Anthropologie jumper (sweater) that I am wearing today in honour of Red Monday. I love clothes from Anthropologie but why do they have to cost so much? It really is the most interesting clothing store here in the U.S.A. Back in Ireland I am love Monsoon and Peruna, but in general the clothes are a little more interesting in the U.K.

Colour week

Hello it is colour week! Who says - Little Red Hen. I thought it would be fun so I am joining in too! Here is how the week goes :-

Sunday- rainbow of colour
Monday - red
Tuesday - orange
Wednesday - yellow
Thursday - green
Friday - blue
Saturday - violet
Sunday - finish it all off with another rainbow of colour.



This picture seemed very appropriate for the Rainbow theme of the day. It is a lino print that my dad, Terry Aston hand painted for me last year. It is hanging in my kitchen and giving me a cheerful view through this long cold Michigan winter.


This is my somewhat untidy fabric stash system. Some bins are definitely more full than others that Blue one is overflowing. I should really go through and fold the fabric neatly.


Beads, Beads, Beads - this is just one of my many bead storage areas and it is rainbow so there you go.

Quilt Patch

Now that the Mummy to be has received the full Quilt I can post my patch. The theme of the quilt was Up North (Michigan). I chose to depict the lake that we had our camp on. Michigania on Walloon lake, it is close to where the big heart is. I used one of my favourite fabrics for the cool blues of the lake.

Flickr Love

I just found this beautiful felted piece on Flickr. It is by Caroline Inckle a talented Artist and Illustrator from Inverness, Scotland. I love to find Artists from the U.K. without meaning to. Anyway it is a beautiful piece, she has many more including lovely Polar Bear illustrations you can check out her blog http://www.secretsuperheroes.typepad.com/ or her Etsy shop secretsuperheroes.etsy.com The Etsy shop does not have as much of her Textile work but very beautiful illustrations.

I can't seem to make my links work but her blog is on my list to the right.

The Journey - Quilt

This beautiful piece has been done by my Mum, Felicity Aston. She is a very talented Fiber Artist and a constant source of inspiration. She belongs to the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and this piece is the result of the their ''The hands across the border'' exhibition, the theme of which is ''The Journey''
It is based upon the annual epic migration of Light bellied Brent Geese from Arctic Canada to Strangford Lough where they pass the winter months. Evidently this year 26,000 arrived here out of a total world population of around 50,000.
The borders represent the snow and fir trees in the north and a greener milder environment in the south