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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on May 25, 2020 | 12 comments

Has a bee ever landed on you, and instead of getting scared, you appreciate the possibility that you got confused for a flower? -Unknown

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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. -Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway. -Mary Kay Ash

It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -Mary O’Connor

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Tagged allium, bumble bee, candytuft, euphorbia, flower garden, LCsCottage, spider, Spurge

A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on May 21, 2020 | 6 comments

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

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“The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(…) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.”
― Robertson Davies, What’s Bred in the Bone

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this. –Stevie Smith

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Tagged allium, Allysum, Creeping Jenny, Creeping Phlox, Creeping Zinnia, floral, flower garden, Geum, John Harrigan, LCsCottage, lilac, maple, miniature iris, peony, Petunia, Robertson Davies, Stevie Smith

How I Spent My Saturday Afternoon

Posted on May 17, 2020 | 24 comments

I had a very pleasant Saturday afternoon off from the day job, so I spent the time doing some prep work for sewing.

Bonnie Hunter had a leader/ender bow tie challenge back in 2011. I decided to make this quilt back in 2018 (you can see that post here, and you will find a link to BH). No hurry. Nope. None at all.

I’ve been out of cut squares to make more bow tie blocks, so I cut a few more. I don’t have a picture of those, but I do have a picture of the finished blocks.

There are more than 578 little bow ties in this basket!

Remember the Lets Sew Quilt Along?

I have finally pin basted it!

While I had the pins and table set up, I pin basted Floral Reflections, too.

The inspector got involved…she had to check out the safety aspect!

I will be working on ESS (Every Stinking Seam…Cindy Needham’s version of SITD…Stitch in the Ditch). This will take a while!

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Quilt on!

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Tagged Bonnie Hunter, bow tie, Floral Reflections, free QAL, LCsCottage, leader/ender, Lets Sew Quilt Along, Partners in Design, pin basting, Quilt Nouveau Designs