Out'n Aboat

It seems I'm lagging a bit on the blogging.  Summer is a busy time for the shop and lately my social life is blooming more than my gardens.  Last night we celebrated the 60 birthday of our friend Peter with a perfect meal at a mutual friend’s house; the satay chicken with peanut sauce was a finger licking, five stars.   It was a fun evening and the megastar, after the charming Peter of course, was the divine Black Forest birthday cake. The slices were bigger than our smiles as we voraciously scraped the last crumbs off our plates.  

I finished my Sail Away project and decided to rename it.  A fresh new look deserves a new name. From now on it’s Out’n Aboat and we have kits ready to go.  I’m happy with the colour plan, I think it will be popular with kids and the nautically inclined.   It would be sweet in a brass porthole the perfect frame for the subject matter, a trivet for a teapot or simply hung on the wall or resting on a kitchen island.   A cute little accent piece for your home or boat, adding a bit of seafaring whimsy.  

Sailboats flying colourful spinnakers are commonplace in this county.  Lunenburg  Yacht Club has sailboat races and sometimes we see the boats from our house with all their brightly flying spinnakers across the horizon.  I believe I’ve captured the Kaleidoscope of the colours of spinnaker cloth in this little 10” diameter rug.  The stylized border, a cross between a life preserver and a compass pulls the same colours from the sail for a perfect blend.