Monday 5 July 2010

Life in Soft Focus


There's something about a prolonged period of heat and haze that can start to blur the edges of life a little. If I had to live a film-life it would be a Merchant Ivory kind of Edwardian life, all crisp white cotton summer dresses and gin and tonic on the veranda of a Thames side villa whilst bees lazily drift by amongst the roses ....................ummmmmmmmmmm.

But the last few weeks of lovely warm lazy days, and the promise of the summer stretching ahead is giving me something of the merchant ivories. In the vase on my kitchen table is a flower that sums up this feeling exactly, the peony. I love them, unashamedly pretty, only just the right side of vulgar pretty, lazy hazy unashamedly pink.



This weekend I have been working on an unashamedly pretty pink baby quilt for a much anticipated baby due this summer. It's been the perfect project for the weather.

The fabric stripes are Kona Snow, Kona Ash, a selection of Sevenberry florals and spots ( such lovely cottons) and the elephant and mouse print is from pygletwhispers on etsy.

4 comments:

  1. beautiful soft colours and the elephant mouse print is wonderful!

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  2. Oh this made me laugh as I too, would be happy right now in an Edwardian M & I movie, sipping G&T!

    Lovely Quilt, it's not my normal colours, in fact I specifically shy away from pale pinks but these look great together.

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  3. Debs this is so sweet I really love the soft colours. I think the small prints and solids show the elephant fabric off really nicely.

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