Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Spring Has Sprung

Spring has sprung....don't know if that is grammatically correct but I know the birds singing and all the "April showers" have been tremendous here in the south!

Creativity takes many forms....quilting, smocking, sewing, sketching, painting, music....these are a few of mine.  With the change of seasons, I find myself humming more, checking my bird feeders often and watching the flowers, grass and trees burst into all sorts of inspirational color!

(I recently painted this door wreath with a group of ladies at church for a Saturday morning "hen party")

What inspires you?  Is it all the glorious greens? What about the iridescent colors on a hummingbird?  Perhaps the gradient colors in a blooming flower?  

Do you take those spring cues and utilize them in your color palette? Try to audition fabrics for a new quilt?  What about floss colors in a smocking project?  

Spring has sprung.....what about your creativity? 

Springing right along,
Renee

P.S.All tutorials, information and images are the property of Renee Galloway at Ney Ney's Nest and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin, share with attribution to Ney Ney's Nest.  For all other purposes, please contact me at reneegalloway@me.com.  Thanks!

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Smocking Blog Posts


We all have moved before....sometimes it takes a while to get everything unpacked and put where it needs to be....
Such is the case with this blog that I moved from my previous web platform.  The content moved but links to the pictures were broken.  I have corrected this issue.

http://neyneysnest.blogspot.com/2013/06/picture-smocking-unraveled-part-2.html

This blog discusses the prep involved BEFORE  actually picture smocking.

Here are others discussing picture smocking:

http://neyneysnest.blogspot.com/2015/03/picture-smocking-tutorial-part-2.html

http://neyneysnest.blogspot.com/2014/04/spring-smock-along-picture-smocking.html

Enjoy the tutorials!

Happy Smocking,
Renee

P.S.All tutorials, information and images are the property of Renee Galloway at Ney Ney's Nest and are intended for personal use only.  Feel free to re-blog, pin, share with attribution to Ney Ney's Nest.  For all other purposes, please contact me at reneegalloway@me.com.  Thanks!