20 October 2010

Autumn Mobile

Today was a beautiful Autumn day. Golden leaves fell like a soft rain. Our cottonwood tree will soon be filling our front yard with lots of golden love. I enjoy laying down on a favorite quilt and looking up into the stunning, blue sky as little, yellow hearts dance in the wind and then fall gently on the ground.

This week I made a mobile to remind me of the Autumn dance that we look forward to every October.


Our Autumn mobile hangs in our sunroom and the window quilt mirrors our blue sky as the cottonwood leaves appear to be floating down to the ground.


First we chose a stick found during our Mother's Day hike this year. I spaced marks by eye to be drilled. 


My husband helped drill tiny holes where I had marked them on the stick.


A couple of large acorns were also drilled for easy stringing. 


Here are some of our gathered treasures for the mobile and a couple supplies. 
Pine cones from our yard, cottonwood leaves, acorns gathered during our trip to Texas, two stone leaves from my local yarn/bead store, cotton thread for stringing our treasures, our special stick and needles for threading.


I choose to use only a few holes for this mobile and one on each end for our hanging string. I cut individual strings with several knots on top of the stick to keep them from falling down. 


I chose to lay out my treasures to see how it worked together before I began threading. Pine cones and stone beads were placed on the bottom of the string for weight. To keep the acorns from sliding down, I tied a knot or two under them. The leaves were simply attached and were able to slide with help.  After clipping any extra string, I hung our mobile in the warmest and brightest room in the house to enjoy. 




I had hoped to add some colorful knitted leaves to our mobile but my knitting list seems to be growing faster than I can knit. Some knitting patterns to check out on Ravelry for this project :: Autumn Acorn :: Maple Leaf :: Autumn Oak Leaf or you can see all the patterns at Natural Suburbia.


May your Autumn season be full of love. 

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Dear Lynnette,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment you left over on my blog. Your mobile is so beautiful:) Thank you for linking to my patterns and blog, I really appreciate it.
Take care
Linda
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Thank you Linda! You have shared such wonderful patterns with us and I hope to knit up some more. :)
I loved your post so very much Lynnette!
What a stunning way to remember this season xo
1 reply · active 766 weeks ago
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Since learning about Waldorf we have paid more attention to the seasons. I must say it has been a treat. :) xo
Beautiful mobile!
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Beautiful mobile!
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Thanks for stopping by.
How lovely!! This time of year is just the best. Love your mobile idea. I'll have to make one with my little guy. And thank you for your recent comments about my birth story. Thank you for sharing your emotions - I'm going really well and just loving this time in my life. Happy day. xoxo
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Enjoy your expanding family, sweet Momma! Thanks for coming by.
How beautiful, lovely idea. x
so beautiful. i was just thinking of turning some of our nature table into 'something'.

lovely lovely!

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