It's my mother's birthday on Wednesday, but since we had planned to go to the OB's (
post hockey game) we just ended up celebrating yesterday. She asked me,
yesterday for a silk scarf to go with a new gray dress. I said I would choose red, but she mentioned salmon (as a colour). Here is what I came up with. I had some striped greyish silk. I printed it with the jellyfish and seahorse blocks in salmony pink.
I had some hand-woven Thai floral silk (oh, the wonders of the Sidney Thrift Store!), which I embellished with butterflies, blossoms and feathers in black, and tints of salmon, peach, orange and pink. Honestly, it's less busy than that sounds:
I painstakingly sewed the two rectangles together. Silk can be tough and finnicky to deal with.
I actually wear a lot of silk scarves* but have never previously attempted to make one.
*Ok, actually, it's a running joke: how many scarves does
have on her person at any give time. But they are the solution to style + unpredictable weather: 40 million French women can't be wrong. I have um, several.
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