color tuesday

Being influenced by the color around you.

Blue Hydrengeas, green grass and trees, the beach, having things that remind you of childhood, all these things heavily influence the way I work.

My house, Is pretty much all blues, greens and browns. So yesterday,after showing Monica how to make a coffee cozy, had to make one for myself, which lead to a new pot holder, so I will stop burning my hand on my ratty ones, to a pot holder, and then to finally update, what I use as a table runner on my table...three place mats from Johnathan Adler....

I cut them apart, and quilted them all together to make something cohesive.

My husband said, "whats that?"
I said, "you don't recognize them?"
"nope. Oh!" he said, "it's a Quoily."
I said, "a what?"
He said, "You know, a quilt - doily, a Quoily!"
"We've become doily people!"

I said," um no it's the placemats we've been using down the center of our table to rest things on for the last 3 years... Remember these?"

"OH! yeaH, I REMEMBER NOW..."

So much for being creative!

;-)

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I've got green blue and brown all over my house.
No wonder it comes up in my quilts so much... Perhaps I've been to hard on this quilt...
now that I can see it in the grander scheme of things... perhaps it will live in my living room.

Find inspiration around you.

what inspires you today?