Concerning the Interesting Reflection of Fabrics to the Real World

Well, further to yesterdays comment on the colors in the quilt photo being similar to what's outside right now-- another unplanned correlation:

Yesterday I had recorded the beautiful-ness of these strawberries.  I liked the green tops on them, they weren't all dried up, but nice and fresh looking.  (Also note the brown background of the table)
Later, at the shop, Jen was putting together a new kit with the Fabrics from French General.  Of course I have to sew this sample,(it has adorable blocks of alphabet samplers)

 And lo, and behold, there on the cutting mat (green) are the strawberry colors looking back at me.  Red, Brown, Green, and white(ecru).

2 of the 8 alphabets

 Aside from that, I have been recently working on this table runner, made from pieces of re-cycled shrunken sweaters. 

 My friend Linda has done whole throws using this method, which I learned from her.  The pieces are butted up against each other and zig-zagged together.  But the key is to first iron on a little 1/2" strip of fusible interfacing to the back of the join.  I have yet to add a backing and "binding", which has not yet been worked out how to do that. 

Seriously Cute

I am so excited about this little thing.
I had first seen red and white knitted mug warmers at a big bookstore before Christmas, they were adorable, but I didn't get one.  Then, I saw one on a knitting site recently, which was also very cute, with a cable knitted on it in chunky yarn.  Then, this afternoon, I was blog-surfing and came on this blog here,
  aha, I found it: 
mug warmer by house wren studio
which has a lot of stuff on recycled wool felt.  It showed on in a photo, somewhere that I can't locate now, where it was just simply cut out of a recycled sweater!!  Of course!  This had sort of been in the back of my mind these last couple of days while I've been on a bit of a sweater groove.  So I immediately jumped out of my chair, and found the leftovers from my felted aran wool computer bag and made one.   You can see I just did some easy crocheting with pink around the edges and a chain stitch to make button loops.  Then I had to make a new pot of coffee in order to test it out. 
If you explore around on her blog ( I love it) you will also find photos of take-out cup warmers too!, as well as other great stuff,   

 Don't you just love wool?