Skip to main content

What do you call a full moon?


That might sound a silly question.  You call it a full moon, of course.  But a full moon has different names given to it at different times of the year.  Those names vary slightly according to which reference book or website you consult, but here are the most popular: 

January -Wolf Moon

February - Snow Moon

March - Worm Moon (also known as the Egg Moon)

April - Pink Moon (alternatively, the Seed Moon)

May - Flower Moon

June - Strawberry Moon

July - Buck Moon

August - Sturgeon Moon

September - Harvest Moon

October - Hunter's Moon

November - Frost Moon

December - Cold Moon

Apparently the naming goes back to Native American culture, a way of keeping track of the seasons, the names reflecting what was going on in the natural world at that time of year.  The Worm Moon, for instance, was to do with Spring, the weather warming up, earthworms rising to the surface, migrating birds returning to the land.  More info about each month's name can be found on this page from Country Living magazine - link here - and more info about the moon in general is available via the Royal Museums Greenwich site - link to them here.  I love all those words applied to the moon's visibility.  A waxing crescent moon, a waning gibbous moon, a waning crescent.  So evocative.  

But why am I telling you all this?  Because of my current obsession with doll making, that's why. 

I've completed three dolls so far.  Except for adding ribbon loops to hang them from, and I also want to make labels to attach to each, explaining which moon they represent.  I'm still working out how to make those labels appear stylish enough.  My calligraphy skills are non-existent and the labels need to look a certain way.  Not like they're simply an address tag on someone's luggage.
The doll on the left has to be either November's Frost Moon or December's Cold Moon.  The middle doll is surely April's Pink Moon, while the doll on the right is slightly harder to place.  To me the colours are of early autumn.  That time of year when you get odd days that make you think it's still summer.  But those warm, mild days are deceptive, and you know in your heart that the season's turned and summer's really over.  I might leave off assigning a name to that doll until I've made a few more.  

I'll need to dig out the gell plate and print more fabric, but have temporarily run out of calico or enough plain white cotton to work with.  I did try printing on synthetic material, but it proved too difficult to stitch into, both by hand and by machine.  In fact, the sewing machine threw a major hissy fit every time I tried using the painted-on synthetic material.  Lots of snarled up thread and ominous clunky noises.  Shan't be trying that again!  

Okay, I'll finish here for today, and settle down to watch the early evening news.  That'll no doubt be full of gloom and doom.  Maybe I'll dodge the rain showers and go out for a long healthy walk afterwards.  Nothing like fresh air and burning off the calories to brighten the mood.  Bye for now.  

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Threads of Freedom and charity shop bargains

  It's Saturday afternoon, and I haven't done half the things I'd meant to.  Partly because I spent most of this morning messing about with paints, stencils and the gell plate.  Never mind, everything on today's 'To Do' list will join tomorrow's 'To Do' list ... it's hardly life or death if I don't haul the hoover around the room or pull up weeds in the front garden.   I thought I'd show you what I made on Wednesday.  I'd gone to my monthly StitchArt group, and this time we did something a little different.  There's a project called 'Threads of Freedom' which is working with various community groups across the city.  It's about creating little stitched pieces, some of which will be included in a textile panel to go on display at Leeds art gallery.  There was lots of fabric we could choose from to sew with, and I picked this vintage tray cloth with the roses embroidery.   My own embroidery's not a patch on those flo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Another week's flown by ...

  Saturday's rolled around again, and it's not been the most eventful of days.  Cleaning and hoovering, a walk to the shops to buy groceries, an hour on the allotment, then home to do some odd tasks in the garden.  The strawberry plants are sending out runners, so I've been dealing with those, plus deadheading the perennial sunflowers, and cutting back the gone-over flowers on the sage and marjoram.  I'm sad to see those blooms gone as the bees loved them.  This afternoon I spent a few hours finishing 'Dawnlands' by Philippa Gregory.   It's a really good book, a page turner where you care about the characters and want to be reassured everything's going to work out well for them.  Plus you become enraged about the corruption of the so-called justice system at the time of the Stuart kings and queens, about transportation of prisoners to the West Indies, and about the vile nature of the sugar trade in the 1600s and the vast profits made from it....
Post a Comment
Read more

Folding a zine and an alternative use for a bank card

  Hello again, and excuse me while I scratch my insect bites.  I don't know what it is, but at this time of year I'm invariably itching like crazy because I've been bitten by bugs.  It seems to coincide with blackberry-picking season, but whether that's purely coincidental I don't know.  Whatever's biting me, I'm obviously a tasty morsel in their world!  I might try using a highly scented oil like Tea Tree oil, see if that deters them.  Anyway, let's get on to more pleasant matters -  I'm having a go at making a zine style booklet.  Because I didn't have any paper large enough, I joined together two A3 sheets of sketchpad paper, using torn pieces of book pages for the joining.  I thought that'd look less noticeable than packing tape or similar.  Having chosen my colour scheme I used acrylic paint and an unwanted plastic bank card to apply the paint.  Plus a stencil, sponge and modelling paste.  Applying paint with a ATM card wa...
Post a Comment
Read more