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.
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| 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.
'Till next time, happy stitching!
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* Photo source: 'Who remembers old Durban', Facebook
This is lovely Lyn, so gentle and harmonious. The silk is perfect. Congratulations. While the name works for me, it does so from my familiarity with USA pop culture rather than Australian practice. Sweets in my Australian experience are lollies. One of my granddaughters works after school at the Lolly Shop. ‘Sweets’ usually refers to dessert. The hooked, striped Christmas treats are certainly candy canes. What the English call candy floss is fairy floss in both NSW and South Australia . It could be different in Queensland. In Scotland, where I taught in the 70s, what I call lollies were sweeties, which seemed very amusing to me at the time.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the local idiom, the term works well for your design. It’s beautiful.
Very interesting, thanks Jillian. Lollies was quite foreign to me when we first arrived in Australia and I still think of lollipops when my grandchildren use the term.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful pincushion! The pastel colours let my thoughts return to a lovely china dish my grandmother kept on the dresser. In it was a selection of pastel mint lentils. If we children had been good we would be offered one, and I always pick out a pink or a light blue one as they were so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThe lovely silk you used for the back of the pin cushion is in good contrast to the baby soft wool on the front.
Queenie
Thanks for the charming story!
DeleteThat worked perfectly!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
ReplyDeleteThose colors look good enough to eat!
ReplyDeletePamela