A black ground with bright red, glittery gold and pale blue in it. I love it.
The first thing I put it on was the lower half of my Christmas roll up pumpkin. I designed it with plaid so all I had to do was paint this one in. I used to hate painting plaids, they were hard and drove me crazy but over the years I’ve learned a few tricks and now plaids don’t give me any trouble at all. In fact, I rather enjoy painting them and coming up with new combos.
A few years ago, a grabbed a handful of silks that were the end of their dye lots so no one wanted them. I had three shades of aqua blue and fuschia. I stitched mini socks, making up new plaids with those colors until I ran out of threads. I think I ended up with seven or eight plaids.
None of them were as much fun to paint as this black plaid.
After the pumpkin, I had an order for a table centerpiece that featured a ribbon, which I made the same plaid. Now I want to put it on everything! I have visions of Santa in plaid, tree top angels in plaids, trays, Welcomes, borders…
I dreamed about gnomes with different plaid hats.
Today is the day before Thanksgiving and this morning totally looked like it; big, fat, lazy snow was falling while I had my morning coffee.
I need to make cranberry sauce and Devil Cookies. The cranberries can wait until tomorrow morning but the cookies had to be today, I don’t want to get in the way of Jay and his turkey.
I made a trial run of the cookies last week. Devil Cookies are very finicky and I haven’t made them in a long time. They turned out okay but not great. They weren’t flat, the insides didn’t fall out when you picked them up (two very common results) but they weren’t quite as tender and mild as they should be.
So I ate them all and tried again.
Today’s cookies turned out perfect!
Let the Holidays roll.