Pastel Candies

Finding a name for my latest pincushion that I first wrote about in this blog post here started with some flashes of memory. 

These soft Paterna wool colours so reminded me of candy floss. Candy floss and the days spent in the sun eating big swirls of freshly made candy floss on sticks on Durban's South Beach. No photos of that  candy floss, but I did come across this very old photo of Durban South Beach with its golden sand, gorgeous blue rolling waves and the Bluff in the distance.

Durban and the old South Beach* 

That jogged a memory of the wonderful beach holiday I had in Hermanus with my cousins. Each day we could choose either ice cream or a selection of penny sweets to spend our carefully guarded our pocket money on. Usually we would choose from the tempting display of sweets, carry them off in a paper packet and sit basking in the sun on the beach savouring them. Like the candy floss, most of those sweets were pastel in colour.

After considering names for my pincushion and chatting to my daughter about these memories, Pastel Candies seemed apt. She'd reminded me that in Australia 'sweets' are called 'lollies' or 'candies'.

I was delighted by this lovely, carefully chosen gift from my daughter overseas. It's a lustrous pink, Thai silk. And it matches the wools beautifully. 

It was the perfect for the back of the Pastel Candies pincushion. 

These are not quite like some of the ones I remember, but we did find some pastel candies.

Here it is altogether: the final pincushion with the pastel candies, wool and silk. 

Now to enjoy those sugared almonds, and think of beach holidays in the sun.

'Till next time, happy stitching!

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* Photo source: 'Who remembers old Durban', Facebook