Summer here is very busy with gardening, stocking up, repairing, building, etc. I have little time to work on the "little" things. I finally dug out my swatch book, and put a cover to it. I could have decoupaged it, painted it, and so many other ways. However, I simply used a piece of stationary and printed it from the computer. Here is a peek inside my journal/book. I simply bought tab dividers with color tabs already adhered. I don't have all the colors, but it's pretty easy to use with the ones do have. I can also add more by using cardstock and adding a tab. For yarns, I simply adhere a piece of the dyed yarn to the page, and write what mordant I used, the material I used, the date and then a year later I update if the color held. For example, I dyed a 100% cotton doily that I crocheted, using red onion skins a year ago. It has since faded from not using a mordant. I did not have a yarn swatch, so I printed photos of the before and...
Inklings from the Farmhouse, embracing balance and new beginnings.