More Strips and a Sunrise

Let's start with the strips.

I have a birthday gift to make for the end of February and thought

that for once it would be good to get in early!

Strips out of the clean up cuts bin, but I did cut them down

into various widths 1 and 1/2" through to 3".

Some of these strips were too short for the project,

I just joined two together of similar colour.

I'm making a pillow with two of the Anna Maria Horner
feathers.  I still have

the side pieces to sew on tomorrow, and one more

to get together.

I had to starch the strips within an inch of their lives to try and make

sure they held their shape, they do need trimming up a little.

Also I've gone for slightly more subdued colours, had they been for myself

I might have gone quite wild with very bright fabrics, but not everyone

likes "in your face" fabrics!

You all know I love my sunrises and sunsets, here was sunrise

on Thursday morning.

Sadly we still have the overhead telephone and power lines in little old Howick, at

least on this street.

Tomorrow (Sunday) I'll be linking up with Cynthia at Oh Scrap!

RSC 2017 have purple as the colour of the month but I have three
from last year so I'll wait for next month's colour.

Enjoy your weekend.

Maureen

Oranges on Saturday RSC 2014

 On to the colour of the month - Orange

my cat collection is steadily growing and I do have quite a lot of orange fabrics ranging from very light through to the background colour of Oxblood - fabric by Philip Jacobs. Oxblood Pansy will be on show next week and I have to thank Wanda over at Exuberant Color for giving me the information that this Pansy was  Philip Jacobs 01 and that the Oxblood and Sunny colorway are now very rare, I'm so pleased I have some in my stash.

I wanted to make a small pillow cover  to sit on a Baltic pine sea-captains chair in a corner of our lounge, something simple and quick. Pulled out a handful of strips from my clean up cuts bin and came up with this top, yet to be finished with backing.

Obviously the strips are random and uneven but I had to square off the edges.
I'm happy with it and think I could sit for a whole day making these.

Now, for my next miracle I am going to try to link up with Angela and everyone making beautiful orange projects for Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2014. Those of you following these posts will possibly have picked up that I have been having trouble shrinking down to thumbnail size for the link, don't know why my mind has gone blank on the quick process I used earlier in the year.
Let's give it another try!

Still not getting it!!!! Maybe some incompatibility between the editing programme on my computer with Mr Linky, perhaps another programme is called for. Anyone use Picmonkey??