Meadowsweet Quilt …
29/01/2012 § 16 Comments
“Queen of the Meadow”
and there’s the meadowsweet, golden stalks amongst the amazing geranium leaves! I love meadowsweet (also known as Queen of the Meadow), I used to gather bunches of it from the marshy fields near the little river Ceri in Wales. It smells divine – of sweet, summer meadows.
I dashed outside to capture the last of the daylight to take these pics. There’s still the top binding to stitch, but I’ll do that this evening. The back is warm, soft flannelette and I quilted it to give maximum ripply drapes rather than the crisper texture of free motion quilting.
I’ve so enjoyed today. I spent an hour or so this morning watching lambs coming into the world at Sparsholt College (see previous post) – it was wonderful to see the shepherd expertly helping a young ewe with her firstborn. His intervention was minimal, to ensure that her natural instinct was encouraged and not interrupted. After a couple of minutes of looking rather perplexed, she began rhythmically licking her baby as the steam rose from him in the barn. Then, with the wibbliest wobbliest legs, he stood up and began to feed. Brilliant!
Friday afternoon will be exciting this week, hopefully, as my gallery show commences. There’s a lot of listing and labelling to do in the meantime!
Have a lovely week and pop over to Wendy’s Handmade Monday 51 to see what everyone else has been up to.
Adaliza
This is absolutely gorgeous. I hat the smell of geraniums but this would be a lovely way to enjoy their cheerful blooms 🙂
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I love the warmth of your colour scheme, just what you need in the Winter when the weather has turned cold and you need reminding the warm days will follow.
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Your quilt is beautiful, love the colours of the fabric used. Nature is so amazing and wonderful to watch.
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Love it! Good luck with the gallery show on Friday Mich 🙂
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Up until 5 minutes ago when I first began reading your post I was of the mindset that I would have a go at making my first quilt for my niece. I have bought all the pieces and begun planning how to make it. Now that I have seen your beautiful quilts I am wondering if I am kidding myself – your quilts are beautiful and look so intricate and such hard work!! Maybe I am not cut out for quilting!!! Amazing colours it is gorgeous!
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Love the quilt and such a fabulous use of colour. Looks great photographed outside!
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Such a wonderful, brightly coloured quilt.
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Wow that’s beautiful, loving the colours too.
Good luck on your Gallery Show.
Butterfly, I’m sure you will do well with your quilt 🙂
Jan x
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What a beautiful quilt, the colours are quite striking and work really well. x
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I love the colours in your quilt….makes me long for spring xx
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It’s a gorgeous quilt!
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Your quilt is beautiful and I love the colours, very summery. Hope you have a good week.
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Stunning and as previously mentioned it adds a nice warmth to this time of year. Lovely story of the lambs, bless him!x
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What brilliant color! I love that quilt. And the lambs and Moms are just wonderful (and I did sneak over to your friend’s blog and watch the video, I can still hear them bleating in my head!)
What fun. 🙂
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Good luck with the show, I don’t think you’ll need it as your quilts are so beautiful.
Jo x
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I love how bright that blanket looks against the dull grey of the day! Good luck with the show!
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