Hello lovely lovelies♡ A springtime welcome to my little place. Did I say a springtime welcome?? Well.....Lady Spring arrived, albeit tentatively, painting the landscape with a host of those happy rays of sunshine, the daffodils; but of course Old Man Winter wasn't going to leave without a lot of huff and puff...and bluster. He wasn't going to leave my little corner of the world for other lands, without pulling out all tricks and putting on quite the show. This little island at the bottom of the world quivered and quaked under his might and power this past week. Electricity outages for days on end, thunderous skies lashing us mere mortals with torrential rain and gale force winds; uprooting trees, floods, damaging many a house etc etc. Why, the whole of Tassie was in blackness......and I think, sadly, some still are. As for the garden here at my little place....oh dear.... let's just say, it's one helluva mess.
So, sitting day after day in front of the open fire, with a gazillion candles casting a lovely glow everywhere, diminishing the darkness; and tea percolating in a billy among the flames, I stitched the finishing stitches to my Flower Meadow quilt. Yes indeedy, while Old Man Winter carried on a treat, swaggering and ranting outside my picture windows, I finished my Flower Meadow pretty.
Flower Meadow imaginings began in January 2023 when the roses and dahlias were sashaying in the summer sun, with me just desiring to play with fabrics; and play with EPP hexies. No thinking; just playing. After all, playing with hexies is my happy place. A mosaic of hexie flowers randomly growing together in an effusion of colour and pattern in a quilt sounded like the most wonderful of ideas.
My fabric stash is overflowing with florals so what better way to display the beauty of these floralicious delights than all together in a quilt; with flower hexies sashaying together in a flower meadow. So many of the hexies were fussy cut and I must say my Flower Meadow is very pleasing to my eyes. I love the movement of colour and pattern in this quilt. Swathes of colour move throughout the quilt in a harmonious and eye pleasing way. Well, it is to my eyes. =) Swathes of happy, harmonious colour exactly as one would see in a natural flower meadow♡
I hand quilted around each hexie flower and also the centre hexie of each flower. My ethos of 'KISS' hand quilting once again because as you know I like my quilting to be 'keep it simple stupid'. =) The quilting around the green border is in a stepped design and the binding is the backing fabric which is a pretty, darker green with ditsy flowers flourishing all over. Another pretty quilt completely hand stitched from 'go to whoa'.......just the way I like my quilts to be♡
