Daffodil Yellow for the Welsh St David's Day. Dress 344.

 March 1st every year is St David's Day in Wales. Not yet a national holiday but lots of people voted for it to be a national holiday, even if they had to sacrifice a different day to replace it by St David's Day.

The colour is yellow, for the yellow of the Daffodil. 

However, the flag of Wales is green, and white with a red dragon. 

This was the flag of the first Tudor King, Henry VII, who preceded the more famous Henry VIII of the 6 wives.

I wore yellow, green, white and red, mostly yellow and green.

I hunted all over the web for yellow, then decided to check my own wardrobe. 

Yellow Wrap 'Dress'

I had a yellow wrap dressing gown. I never wear it because it is too long. Time to stop leaving it hanging up doing nothing. Time to start thinking, live every day as if it were your last. 

I am also getting more ruthless about taking out the scissors and altering clothes to fit whatever my size is now. I could not go out in the garment. It would get dirty, and trip me up. I was not even comfortable wearing it around the house. I had been saving it for years. I thought, I could cut it tomorrow. Find something else now. 

On second thoughts, cut it now. But I needed time to cut it straight, room to lay it on the floor. Or a friend to help me. 

Nope. If I folded it edge to edge twice, I could be sure it would not go diagonally. At worst, I would have it scalloped. I folded it and snipped one side, a few inches above my ankles. 

When I finished cutting, it was much better. I could walk in it. I considered making it edge to edge, maybe with a zip. No time. I tied it wrap around. I could use the off-cut around the waist as a wide cummerbund to conceal the wrap-over effect and keep it tight and neat. However, I wanted it for a zoom meeting. Most of the time I would be sitting down. 

The off-cut made a scarf. How about ear-rings?

DIY Ear-rings

I had a set of three applique balloons, red, yellow and green. I have had them for years. Never found a use for them. I got them out. How to use them as ear-rings? I thought of tying them to other ear-rings. I held them up to my ears and considered tying them onto my spectacle frame with a loop. After I tied the loop, they looked a bit like the loops on masks which go over the ears. 

That worked well. Wish I had thought of that before. They are inclined to fall off. And the loop can come undone. You have to be ruthless and decisive and either stick down the end or sew it or use a small safety pin or clip.

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