"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom" Thomas Carlyle

During last week's rainy days, I needed something to keep my hands busy as I binge watched Netflix.  In December, when I was trying to make round heads for the snowmen, some of the patterns I made did not work--too pointy, too fat, just wrong.  I stuffed two of them, and they didn't work at all--one way too big, the other too squatty.  (They will make satisfactory pumpkins in the fall.)  

One pattern that I pieced, however, I didn't even bother to stuff.  I pulled it out and turned it into something else entirely.

Folding it it inside itself and adding a bit of stuffing made a neat mushroom cap.  Now I was set to get back to Netflix with floss and needle ready!  The neon green floss did not give the bioluminescent look hoped for, so I switched to other colors.  A rectangle made a simple stem, and I now have the first mushroom for my imaginary forest floor.  

Pinterest has so many beautiful fabric mushrooms and so many ideas!  I have some tiny 'shrooms in progress and will probably continue making them and experimenting until I get tired of it.  Real mushrooms are amazingly diverse in appearance, but fabric mushrooms on Pinterest are varied, too.  :)

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain 

is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.  --John Tyler Bonner

The sun is out today, but the rains return tomorrow.

Clearly, the light is bothering Edgrrr.