Spring Time Blossoms and Wedding Crochet for Fall

     Ah, spring, my second favorite time of the year.  The wisteria is blooming, as well as the roses and honeysuckle. All some of my favorite spring scents mingled with the scent of freshly mown grass.

     I do love roses. In Feb we trooped down to the house in Waycross and dug up my Peace rose as well as getting some other items from the house, and I planted my rose here at our home.

     I love the colors of my Peace Rose.  I am also in love with the smell!

     I love how the pink gives way to the bright yellow center, and how both colors are so vivid and cheerful!

     The rose is so very fragrant, you can almost smell it through the the picture! LOL

     The other plants I have planted at the base of the rose are doing so very well also! I am loving the beginnings of my little fairy garden. I have hopes of building some little fariy cottages and maybe even puttin in a little dry stream bed with pretty blue and green aquarium gravel and maybe some glass gravel as well.

     Sweet Williams are so vibrant and bright in color! And really hardy as well. 

      Ant then there is this rose. It's our Brownlee Rose as it was brought to my husbands house after his grandmother Brownlee passed. It was one of her roses from her home. This rose has always bloomed before Mother's Day, and this year was no different!

     This is so loaded, can you see all the buds? It is glorious to have such abundant blossoms!

    I have been spending weeks and weeks going through Ravelry looking at shawl patterns. My husbands grand-niece is getting married the first weekend in October, and I'm making her a shawl to wear for the wedding. I am also hoping to make one for her daughter and each of the two bridesmaids, as well as scarfs for each of the groomsman and the groom. Yeah, I'm nuts! LOL

After so much searching and research I found the perfect yarn for hers, and because I am a paranoid woman, I picked up a plan "B" yarn!

     I do so love the look of a project bag with yarn in it!

     The perfect yarn is from Jumping Moon Farms. This light grey is just what she wanted, and as a linen-cotton blend will be soft and warm.  (But the voice in my head worries it may be too rustic??)

     The pattern was also a wonderful find! The pattern is called Piquant by Lily Go on Ravelry.

     

     And what progress have I been making! This section of the pattern is quick. Yet....

     I'm still worried about the color and that it may be too rustic. So, off to the Mother-in-law's house where the dress is currently at for comparison. The result? Yep. Way too rustic and much, much too dark of a grey. I till love it and the yarn, but it is so not right for the wedding dress.

     Which brings me to my plan "B" yarn. 

     Again another Juniper Moon yarn. This time it's Findley. This picture is not getting the color right. The color is much more like the pale dusty champaign, that hints of pink or a pale, pale mauve.

     Not as much progress on this as yet. The yarn is much finer, so it's going just a touch slower.

     I've checked this yarn with the dress, and it'll be perfect. It'll look much more classic and refined, which is what I wanted to go with.

:-)

     Whee....now, just to get it all done before my birthday, July 26th!

          Ha ha ha ha

Ttfn

     Jenn