Project Spectrum Yellow Spring and East
June 1, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, flower maker, jewelry, tatting
Project Spectrum is a very neat ongoing online crafting project that Lolly began on her blog: Project Spectrum
There’s a Flickr group and a Ravelry group, too.
It’s all about creativity and being inspired by specific ‘triggers’. The leaping off points for May and June are the following:
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
EAST (May/June)
Color: Yellow
Material: Wood
Season: Spring
Element: Air
We have had the longest winter ever, and a late and cold and miserable springtime.
This means that we are sadly lacking flowers outside right now.
Bless the sturdy little dandelion that braved the cold and popped up outside my window.
In order to get flowers, I have to make them myself.
Here’s a yellow wire flower pin that I made the other day on a wooden flower loom that I made so I could play with wire.
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
So, yay…. I have used the element of wood, and look… there are more yellow flowers, as well as a vintage flower loom that is yellow plastic.
And, since socks seem to be an eternal necessity in our sadly cold weather these days, it makes sense to have socks that are totally whimsical and wild and wonderful. I love tatting flowers onto the tops of my handknitted socks so that I will always be walking close to flowers. If I can’t walk through fields of them, I will dance with them attached to my socks! (The link to the pattern written out is in the last sentence, and the link to the video tutorial is in the next sentence).
Yellow tatted flowers: A video tutorial
photo and project by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
One of my most favorite recent yellow projects has been this very very simple little thread doll. She’s part of a series of little comfort dolls. (check the link for instructions on how to make them).
And, the YELLOW that I would really enjoy seeing more of these days would be sunshine, balanced with just the right amount of rain, so we could see glorious GREEN!
