This was my design wall when I walked into my studio yesterday morning.
This was the design wall by the end of the afternoon. I need to find some more fabrics to finish the bottom corner.
The purple violets have started blooming and there are lots of them all over the back garden.
There are a few white violets too and a lot more will show up in the grass. I know many people think they are weeds but I love them. As a small child I used to pick bouquets of purple violets and yellow buttercups along a little creek.
I love those violets too. In my family, we call them “Pond Hollow violets”. My mother had transplanted a couple of the violets from her aunt’s yard over 60 years ago, and her aunt lived in Pond Hollow. Nannie was a wonderful gardener who grew her own food (and was a quilter too!). I always thought the violets originated there....so when I see them in my yard, I think of Nannie. Needless to say, I smile when I see those little violets (weeds? not to me!).
ReplyDeleteI love the violets as well and always picked bouquets as a child! I found some yesterday on my walk and may have picked a few! :)
ReplyDeleteKathy
What a beautiful piece on your design wall, Wanda--your colorwash pieces are always such a treat to behold...
ReplyDeleteMy azaleas are just about ready to burst into bloom--rain predicted tomorrow--
so I am hoping that will prod them into flowering...
hugs, Julierose
You got a lot done on that colorwash piece! It is going to be another beauty! The violets are so sweet. I don't mind them in my yard either.
ReplyDeleteI have violets everywhere and I leave them be except when they invade the garden and threaten to take over vast areas. I remove enough of them to make way for other plants. That's a lovely colorwash in progress. I must get mt batik colorwash quilted. No excuse, just need to get it in the queue.
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I love violets - and I used to pick bouquets of them for my mother (she loved them, my dad called them weeds). DH and I have compromised - no violets in the lawn but they're allowed to grow in the big beds under the trees and around the perimeter of the back yard along the fence. It has been a while since you've done a floral color wash - so pretty!
ReplyDeleteI especially enjoyed yesterday's garden tour, Redbuds are such an individual color - I always say I like all colors but admit that one is a favorite!
ReplyDeletececi
Such good progress, Wanda. Of course, we KNOW what comes next, don't we? The rearranging once it's all arranged! :o))
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy YOUR Colorwash designing. I never get tired of seeing the gradations you create. And violets are my spring time favorite ❣
ReplyDeleteJJM
I like the violets, too. We also had them when I was a child, and they are in the lawn and flowerbeds here.
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing at those colorwashes. I made one, and I think that's my limit.
I know how much work goes into putting that many squares up. Looking good.
ReplyDeleteI never tire of seeing you do these colorwash quilts. They are like magic on your hands.
ReplyDeleteSpring wildflowers are my favorites!!! and then the more regular garden flowers... Found 2 more wildflowers growing inside the yard boundaries this year. Bluettes and Wild Johnny Jump Ups (Field Pansy)! I have not ventured out to the forest... this year. When you do a colorwash, it makes me want to make one too... but not enough time to do everything....
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