Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: family

  • A Little Boy Quilt

       This weekend our baby turned two. TWO! He’s officially a toddler, well on his way to ‘kid.’ He’s been pretty much being ‘two’ for weeks now, but now that his birthday has come, it’s totally official 😉   Before Christmas I decided that I wanted to make Robbie a quilt for his birthday. There’s only…

  • In search of ‘hygge’

         This morning when I woke up the light was that pale, light blue of winter. Light made only when its coming in through bare branches and snow on the ground. There was nothing to do for the moment but snuggle in further under quilts and blink awake.    “It’s snow!” The baby chirped, pointing…

  • Walnut & Indigo

         The colors of late November are lovely; deep and muted, the autumn blazes have faded and now things are mellowing with warmth as the north wind picks up and the trees become bare once more. That deep, moody brown becomes the central color of this part of the autumn— before the evergreens and…