5 projects to fire up your spring:
You probably already have most of what you need to try these projects. I’m on fire for spring – so ready to garden and in a giant purge and sort and deep clean mode.
1. Herb markers – a super sweet and simple idea from the always inspiring august wren.
2. Reusable coffee filter – I don’t know why this reusable coffee filter idea has never occurred to me before, especially in coffee filter emergencies. So easy.
3. Cleaning cloths – I’m using a towel I’ve been hauling around for decades and an old sweatshirt combined with cotton and linen scraps. Find a sewing tutorial here.
4. I love this scrap rug idea but I’m not feeling rug size ambition about it. I feel more trivet size ambition about it. It would also make an awesome bag. Again though I think I’ll test drive it at a trivet or place mat size. Find the diy here.
5. You know I love a good smell. These sachets are simple and easy and I love the aesthetic choices made here. The free chicken sewing pattern would also make a great sachet. I’m going to grow some lemon verbena and dry it for filling them. Lemon verbena sachets will be great in upstairs me’s perfectly organized closet.
What spring ideas and projects are you fired up about? Have you got a favorite spring soup?
Let us know in the comments please.
I’d add a little 100% organic cotton handmade bias tape around that coffee filter. Makes it a little more durable and cute.
That’s a great idea!
Dear Ann, I just want you to know I think about you often, I know you are always making and dreaming.
I read your blog. I do not always comment. I am always rushing… taking care of my 97 year old daddy, and just trying to maintain my own trash factory with hubbs, and then there are the grand babies. I do a lot of sewing.
I love your inspiration and creativity
Thanks for thinking of me Rosemary! Happy Spring.
Ann, I adore the foraging apron! Thank you so much. I am a dedicated “apron head” and I’ve never seen this before.
Such a great idea right?!
Thank you so much for your continuing inspiration and for being so kind to share all these goodies with us!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Ann, I love the foraging apron idea too! I’m just beginning the “winter clearance” from our garden and looking forward to getting herbs, spices and flowers growing again. I’m glad to hear you’re still staying in Guilford. My husband and I got married there and we stayed on for a couple of years (very fond memories – apple donuts & very fresh seafood, and of course being near the water). I always look forward to your new posts!
Thanks Susan! I’m in the same place with the garden – un-wintering it. So excited for herbs especially. And I like Guilford a lot – church bells and train whistles…
Thanks for the ideas! I have been using the CoffeeSock brand reusable organic fabric filters for some years now and love them!
Thanks Carlene – I’m gonna check out the CoffeeSock!
Having grown up in Connecticut, now gardening in Maine, I am still laughing about the required gardening apron.
So funny.
Merci de partager toutes vos idées créatrices c’est toujours un plaisir de lire votre blog, je vais utiliser vos explications pour les sacs à vrac et les essuie-tout en tissus.
Thank you!
I wish I could share your enthusiasm for spring, but I must admit, I find it barely tolerable until after the leaves come out on the trees. I have plentiful spring flowers that I love, but I need those leaves to be out before all feels right. I blame my proximity to Lake Michigan. Enjoy spring!
Ann, We love Borscht for spring. Helps me use up all those beets I planted in fall. Our peas are just coming on. I steam them, and whir them in the cuisinart with chicken broth. we heat individual cups, sprinkle with herbs and carry them out into the garden to sip while watering. I live near Monterey. It will be 79 degrees today. The first lilac bloomed today. Lovely post. I gotta make some chicken sachets. My spouse prefers my homemade potholders. They’re looking pretty scruffy. I guess thy should go on the list as well. Happy Spring.
I love you Happy things. What a blessing to have such wonderful talent.