Pitter Patterns

There’s been a lot of branches on the ground after the two-day rainstorm in NY. I went out and brought one home.

(photo taken by Jon Freeland)

I bought ‘lovely lattice’ from Mood last year for seat covers, but ended up using thrifted fabric instead. I dug this up while looking for fabric for the apron project. I fell in love with it all over again and decided I needed to carry it around. I’m a sucker for black-and-white.

There are not too many vegetables that Jon and I both enjoy. I like brussel sprouts, rapini, and root vegetables, he doesn’t. He likes broccoli, I don’t prefer them. But the one thing we can both agree on is asparagus. It’s yummy and super good for you! (applause, applause)

I have a stack of these grey papers from our handmade wedding invitations. They have directions to the church and reception on the back. This weekend I finally justified my decision not to recycle them almost a year ago, well at least 4 of them. Only 196 left.

found a painting I did a while ago that looks like a cross between a bee and a flower…hmmm, that’s quite efficient don’t you think?

This caught my eye while in the West Village. Street art and NYC make such a great couple.

I steal Jon’s socks all the time to wear under my boots. My favorite are his argyle ones but if I had socks, maybe stockings, in a print like this, I would leave his alone.

(in love’s web) this one’s for you man.

Saw these unusual trees on our road trip to Rochester this past weekend; makes me want to take lots of trips!

(photos taken by Jon Freeland)

This apron was made for a special lady we visited this weekend for her birthday. Zenda turned 90 and she still bakes! The last time Jon and I visited his grandmother (Thanksgiving 2009), she was wearing a make-shift, plastic bag apron and frosting a cooled vanilla cake. I used fabric purchased from Purl and this pattern to make a reversible apron for her. Hopefully, she’ll not only continue to bake, but do it in style. She’s even considering pulling out her sewing machine again.

Here is Zenda in the early 1940′s; fashionable and in love.