Gehring Road

i've got plans for you

A little, ahem, view of some fabric I've purchased lately. This is going to be the summer of sewing, I can feel it. I have plans for each little bit of that stack, which is nice, but intimidating. Want a closer look? 

1. After seeing this quilt, I knew I had to give half square triangles another go. I love the look and freshness of this one, and that stack of Bella Solids is some kind of wonderful. 

2. My Steam Punk quilt is in the dreamy phase right now. I'm still a bit scared of curves so I'm giving myself a day to test and tackle those. Not with that fabric... but I'll test drive some curves before I get going on this one. Tons of inspiration over at Jeannette's, each one of her steam punk blocks becomes my new favorite. 

3. We desperately need a new tablecloth and I needed one that didn't cost a fortune, mostly one I wasn't afraid of spilling on... I'm a messy eater. I purchased that yellow Loulouthi fabric and a bit of the circles from Form and Fabric's $4.20 a yard section... seriously. Four dollars a yard? Sold. I love their site and they ship super quickly as well. 

4. I decided to get a bit of Anna Maria Horner's Field Study in Rayon for a staple dress. I still need to cut out and tape the pattern together which I'm told is a bit of a process. The rain this week promises to allow for some serious garment sewing. I can't wait to make a few of these for (gulp) back to school in the fall. 

5. We're experiencing a bit of a baby boom here... some tiny babies are on the way for a few special people in my life and it has me itching to make a baby quilt or three. I'm so in love with Krista's "Welcome to Nunaka Quilt" and have gathered some lovelies to make something similar. Probably devoid of half square triangles... you know my loathing of them.

6. This Kokka fabric is so sweet and also purchased on sale from Form and Fabric. It's really bright and happy and I see it as a whole cloth quilt simply tied with some purl cotton. Easy and nice for a quick gift.

7. I purchased these amazingly beautiful prints from Ayumi's Etsy Shop. I love this print and was delighted to see it in other colors as I've been oogling the blue for a few years. These will find their way into my Steam Punk Quilt (in theory). 

8. I'm still collecting Liberty prints and these were new to me. I love the stars print and the floral as well. These will also end up in my eclectic Steam Punk Quilt. 

 

Happy Weekend everyone, I hope it finds you enjoying the day, whatever it brings. We're enjoying Rob's return from a work trip, nursing a still sensitive stomach and ready to spend time with family. Hopefully a little sewing happens in between! 

june... so far

So happy to be back blogging. When I'm gone from this space for a bit... as it has been lately, I always find the catching up a little daunting. Hopefully my snapshots from June will do that a bit better than I am able to. This June has been stressful, lovely, joyous and difficult, as life most often is. A difficult school year ended, I immediately got very, very sick (stomach bug? food poisoning?) and just started feeling a bit more like myself yesterday. That along with the crazy end to the school year are the reasons from the quiet around these parts. In life, things have been much less quiet. We've been doing some work on a bedroom in our house. Painting and repairing and I am once again amazed at the talents of this wonderful man I am lucky to love. We've had so much rain! Little sewing has happened, but plenty of planning and more fabric buying most certainly has. Nothing new on that front! My left foot has been causing me much grief. The medication I was given for it caused even more. The garden is loving the rain and we had the most beautiful peonies this year. All kinds of treats have been cooked, baked, prepared. We're loving almost every recipe in Deb Perelman's The Smitten Kichen Cookbook. We said goodbye to a four legged one in our family (not our sweet girl, but it certainly reminded us to hold her even closer), but are preparing for new little ones in the not so distant future. Life is very full. Thank you for those who continue to read in this space while life takes me away from it. I'm always so amazed by that. Your visits and words of encouragement are so much a part of what makes this such a meaningful outlet in my life. Thank you. Happy Friday everyone. Rob's been away for work and he's home tonight, Miss Kylie and I are on pins and needles until then! Back tomorrow...

happy father's day

Hope you all are enjoying this weekend... I'm five days (and so, so much grading, ugh!) away from summer. Just wanted to pop into this space to say Happy Father's Day to all the dads in our lives and yours, especially Kylie's dad, who just happens to be our favorite. Happy weekend! 

welcome June, I love you!

    365 Project 

So this was May! Birthdays (four of them), Mother's Day (two of them) and oh so many wonderful moments...we love you May, but this lady waits nearly all year for June. Welcome, June. You could not have come soon enough. This has been a difficult year work wise for so many reasons, and I am so looking forward to some time off to recouperate, reassess and adventure into some wide open spaces. Welcome indeed June! Happy weekend everyone, thanks for stopping by! 

twelfth night

image found here 

image found here

We really, really, really love our local theater company, Hartford Stage. We've made it a tradition to go to their annual production of A Christmas Carol, and last year Rob planned a day watching their production of The Tempest for my birthday. This year, their production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night also corresponded with my big day and we had a chance to see it, with some friends, on Tuesday night. This production was so fantastic, from the set (an intricate and well used labyrinth) to the acting (I loved Malvolio best) to our seats (we were literally front and center but there just isn't a bad seat in this theater) to the laughs - this is one of my favorite comedies of all time, we had so much fun viewing this little production. I really couldn't stop taking photos of the set... besides the labyrinth which they worked into the play so cleverly, the floor of the center of the stage dropped down revealing Orsino, a bath tub, other characters... it was so well done. I did show a little self control and refrained from snapping photos during the production but Hartford Stage has some stunningly beautiful shots here. We're so looking forward to the coming season, it's Macbeth first (yay!) and a Steve Martin production called The Underpants (ha ha!) as well as our beloved A Christmas Carol to get us into the holiday spirit. I hope you are lucky enough to have a really fantastic theater company near you and if you are in Connecticut, stop by and check out the wonderful things Hartford Stage is doing, we so love their work! Happy Saturday everyone... we're pulling up flooring in one of the bedrooms and painting a bit. Wish us luck!