These are Brenda Gervais patterns - one called "Buttonweeds and Bittersweet" and the other "Pocketful of Autumn". They arrived the other day and its taken all of my self-control not to just jump in and start them. But no, I need to finish up with the mess I've made already, before starting another one.
I love Brenda's designs. I will be making a couple of personal changes. She has stained these two with coffee - but I think that I'll leave mine in the brighter colors because that's the venue I'm working in these days. I'd rather they look like folk art than primitive 'olde' style. Also the 'pocket' won't be a pocket but mounted on its own. Its always fun to work a new pattern, even someone else's gives me the opportunity to experiment.
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
My house in the autumn would have a fire burning in the fireplace, hot cider mulling on the stove, a warm afghan to wrap up in while I read a good book.
Decorations of pumpkins and dried branches. Hot tea every afternoon with my requisite three squares of dark, dark chocolate. Autumn houses are warm and cozy -- think flannel pajamas and fuzzy slippers.
Ahhh yes, who can resist an Autumn house?
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns." - George Eliot
Time passes and we are into Autumn now. I'm not sure quite how we got here so quickly as it seems like it was June just a little bit ago. Perhaps the rainy, wet summer that we had made the time pass faster, since there were a lot of 'summer' things we really couldn't do.
But now, I wander around the yard and spy the Oakleaf Hydrangeas turning brown upon their stems. They are still lovely, with their 'vintage' color - like a faded old dress.
I spot the 'regular' hydrangeas and some of them are still lovely - holding onto their color as everything around them fades to tan and brown.
There are some spots of red here and there, but I have to look very carefully to spot them.
These brown lichen make me think of pancakes as they cling to an old tree stump. Actually they look quite delicious.
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay." - Robert Browning
There seems to be a building boom going on in the neighborhood. Another couple of cottages are popping up - or should I say 'looped' up.
One is almost finished and you can see the back of it in this picture.
Both of these cottages will represent Autumn since that's the season we are in, and it just happens to be one of my favorite seasons. I've dug up a couple of rusty pumpkins to add to the ambience.
"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration." - Charles Dickens
