Late last year I decided to start looking for a binding for it, hoping I would finish it then
I found this stripey Nancy Crow fabric and liked it. For quilting I stitched in the ditch in the crazy pieced roses and did diamond shaped leaves in the green areas.
I had a name for this one singing in my head while I was making it. The name comes from the song "In the Garden". When I was in third and fourth grade in a little one room school house the teacher would play the piano and all 12 of us would sing the songs she taught us. One of our favorites that we would request was "In the Garden". It is a Christian song by C. Austin Miles, copyrighted in 1912.It starts out "I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses". So the name of this one is "The dew is still on the roses". I am trying to decide whether to be literal and add beads for dew on some of the roses, or just leave it alone.
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It's very pretty! I wouldn't be able to keep the beads off that one. I'd tart it up like crazy.
Yes, put on the dew. Love the title as well.
Beads please,i like that song also.the quilt is bright and happy.Wig.
"The Dew is still on the roses"~ I just couldn't comment with anything better than you already have. It just sings to all of us. With it's title as it is ~ beading (dew) will enhance it even more.
J~MT
Lovely, lovely quilt. I think your beading idea would be the perfect finishing touch!
-Terri
This is a pretty little one. I'd go for the beads -- I think they'd be very appropriate. You are so productive finishing up or getting rid of your UFOs. I'm afraid my project pile keeps getting bigger rather than smaller. ;-)
Go for the dew-it will just plain sparkle.
Just love it.I'd like the dew
'beads" too, and thanks for the
machine quilting tips. jmh
Oh, yes... by all means add the beads! It is already wonderful, but with beads it will be FABULOUS!!
Lovely lovely roses.
Beads would enhance it, but it is beautiful anyway.
Add the beads!! And that's my mother's favorite hymn, I can't hear it mentioned without thinking of her.
Thanks so much for close-ups of the quilting. I learn so much by looking!
I haven't thought of that hymn in many years.
The dewdrops will be beautiful.
Jeanne
My Mother would sing that song around the house when I was young! I like the quilt and the name you've given it.
Beads, beads, beads. Yes, yes, yes. The colors are so happy, and I would like to see the dew in the morning, too. Love that song.
Gorgeous little quilt. Some beads will be the crowning glory on it!
Love the quilt and the reference to that lovely hymn. Glass beads or even Swarovski hot-fix crystals would be perfect for the "dew" on the roses.
I've got to do me an irregular log cabin one of these days. This one is awesome.
I would vote against beads, but don't listen to me. I'm just anti-bling.
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