Stitching with a Shimmy

Shimmying through life with needles and thread…
March 2nd, 2009

Yellow

Yellow was supposed to be easy.  The daffodils bloomed last week.  We had 70 degree weather! Um… yeah. and I got stuck behind a desk while the sun was out.

So. Three photos.  All of bananas. Well, one banana.  Tonight it’s supposed to snow. So there may be photos of daffodils in snow later, like the peonies.

bananaThe entire banana. Quite a pretty shade of yellow. Delicious, too. :P

bananaendThe END of the banana is just plain interesting. It LOOKS like it’s been burnt where it’s cut off the tree.

bananadetail

I LOVE the details when you look at it up close.

And this weekend there were lovely yellow costumes on a couple of the dancers. I’ll provide links when my favorite photographer puts her photos up. :)

Next week… green!

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February 21st, 2009

Orange

I was right. Orange is difficult to find in spring in a way that *I* consider pretty.

There are a lot of construction flags. I was trying to avoid actually taking pictures of oranges or carrots. I didn’t manage it.  But here we go:

The orange sweatshirt on the construction guy with all the orange traffic cones in his truck:

First I felt the need to cheat and use the doodle I did on an orange scratch pad at work:

I resorted to photographing the ads:

I found the orange lid of the glue at the office:

Then I noticed that the book I’m knitting from has a great deal of orange in it:

And I finally resorted to food: oranges, and then noticed the baker’s chocolate in the baking cupboard of things I can no longer eat:

And I took a close up of the bag for the oranges because as well as being a beautiful deep orange, the texture was just so cool!

So. Did YOU find anything neat and orange this week? Trackback or post a comment so I can see, too!

Edited to add: Next week… Yellow!

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February 14th, 2009

Red

Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

And it is, still Valentine’s day, if not for much longer where I am. I meant to get this out earlier, but the day kind of got out of hand…

Anyway. Here are some of my red images. I actually found more than I expected to, and none of them are roses or valentines! I think Orange may be harder next week…

This is the apple I had for a snack last Wednesday, my red editing pen at work, and the “blood” all over the technical document I’m editing. I wrote it, so the author won’t feel TOO bad that the editor is making all those corrections, LOL!

The berries outside of the drive-thru where I bought my salad…

The dressing had a red packet, too! But I’ll leave them to your imagination.

We had Valentine’s Day dinner at a red restaurant. This is the Evil Overlord… at least as much as anyone will ever see of him… he prefers to live in the shadows. (REAL dinner was sushi last night. My husband really is a romantic at heart.)

Even the cups are red:

So that’s my red week. Leave a comment or a trackback to show me yours!

Next week… Orange!

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February 9th, 2009

Color Experiments and Challenge

Over the years I have noticed a tendency I’ve had to gravitate toward a specific color set in all my work. I struggle with this and have always attempted to buy thread and try to design outside my comfort zone.

This does not always work. While I have used more yellows and oranges over the years, blue, green and purple still overwhelms them in my stash and work. And always will, I suspect. Sometimes I don’t even notice the other colors around me. Even the acrylic painting I started last week turns out to have a predominance of blue and green!

Do you wear this kind of color blinders, too?

Over the next seven weeks I’ve decided to challenge myself to find the colors around me. One week, one color, until I’ve worked through the whole rainbow. This week I’m starting with red. I’m going to try to take photos of what I find in my life in these colors as I go and post them here on Saturday morning.

Want to play with me? Post photos to your blog or flickr account and then post the link in the comments when I post my photos on Saturdays.

This will be a short week, since I’m just starting, but since this Saturday is Valentine’s day, RED should be easy enough to find around us.

Come explore our colorful world with me!

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