Lavender wreath

There is so much lavender in the garden at the moment that we decided to make a lavender wreath. First we cut some shoots from the honeysuckle creeper and wound them into a circle ( I'm sure you could use wire) Then we picked loads of lavender flowers and, taking bunches of four flowers, laid them across the wreath and secured them with string.

Don't cut the stems, they form the bulk of the wreathKeep going, it is time consuming! As you can see, my son did it for me, I only took the pics!This is what the back looks like.

We have left it to dry and I will show you what it looks like in a couple of weeks time. It smells delicious !

tapestry

After seeing Beryl's beautiful tapestry pincushions I am seriously thinking of cutting up this cushion cover and turning it into pincushions. As she so sweetly put it "no one is going to sit on my tapestries!" I started this years ago and, although it's very nearly complete, I somehow lost interest in it. I do vaguely remember something about running out of the teal background colour. The thing I like about this type of design is that each square is a design of it's own and is some how less intimidating than one huge surface!