Hi everyone!
Time to harvest the lemon balm on the left that I grew from seed. It makes lovely tea. My smiling bee buddy, a flea market find for a tuppence ~ 25 cents.
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Finished the bookmarks that I had a pic of in the last post. This is the back. Definitely a trial run because I had a problem with the laminating sheets. Overnight the backing fell off, so I attached another sticky side to the back, but it was hard to cut out properly. Obviously, a laminating machine would work better.
Darker ink would help too, I reckon. Perhaps a heavier 005 Micron pen instead of the finer point, or, better yet, a Rapidograph pen. Black ink does show up better than my favourite blue.
*Squinting eyes.*
*Squinting eyes.*
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Shawl progress. . . finished the nupps section. In a you tube video, I recently saw someone use a crochet hook to pick up the five stands of the nupp on the knit side. The pattern says to pick the nupps up on the purl side. I found that a smaller needle worked well for that. For you knitters out there, in hindsight, if you haven't made nupps before, I am sure the crochet hook method on the knit side would have been easier.
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Slowly putting my container gardens to bed, although, luckily, there are thriving bright spots left.
Mixing paint to match the begonia. I think the pink is straight from the tube. It's difficult to see colour correctly, so an easier way is to fashion a cut out 1/2 inch and a 1 inch frame out of heavy paper to hold against the flower, or even a photograph so that you can isolate the colour. ( Not sure where I saw that, but it's from those who know.)
Have a lovely week...
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