project #4 (fcp)

My mom and I have been obsessed with buttons this week. So my latest project was finishing this 10-foot button garland for the tree. It is easy to make, but if you try it, be careful to keep it from getting tangled. I used a heavy silky cotton embroidery thread. The whites, creams, ivories and sand colors appear iridescent like seashells. Martha would think it is a good thing indeed.
"Day has put on his jacket,
and around his burning bosom
buttoned it with stars"
Oliver Wendell Holmes (one of my favorite quotes!)

shades of ivory II

I'm walking around the house looking for something ivory . . . . ivory is my favorite color (tied in first place with turquoise). (And all the other greens and blues). And, I keep thinking of Ma-Mo going to church. Not just the regulation pearls but the gloves. I l.o.v.e.d those ivory gloves. Every Sunday. Weddings. Funerals. Especially Easter.
And, I kept coming back to this photo of FCP that I had already posted. I thought she made this ivory look gorgeous. We were having birthday cake with Jo. They actually came half way across the state and we actually had lunch. The sand was flyin' . . . . .

shades of ivory

a rainy weekend project...what could more fun than making napkin rings from buttons, like these sold at April Cornell? fcp
“Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?”...Margot Fonteyn