Summer Flowers

Summer is a fun time to stitch up some seasonal flowers.  What better way to spend some time outdoors on a hot day than stitching on a project filled with summertime flowers, colors and patterns!

Actually, I was doing some printing this morning of a few of my popular Secret Garden collages, and that reminded me how fun these were to stitch up, because they all have small blocks of stitches that are totally fun to work, but not so extensive that you have to spend lots of time on them.  And they're all built up around a luscious variegated Watercolors skein, so seeing the colors and patterns come alive on your canvas is a real delight.

Anyway, I thought I'd share some pictures of the ones that evoke the deep warm days of summer.  Here's CALIFORNIA POPPY COLLAGE:

And BLUEBONNET COLLAGE:

 
The warm RED POPPY COLLAGE:

And the very perky PANSY COLLAGE:

All have the look and feel of drowsy summer gardens, don't they?

So if you're interested in sitting in the shade and stitching up a garden, please mosey on over to my website and check out all the flowers growing in the Secret Garden Collection...

Friday Flowers: Pansy Faces

Last fall I planted lots of pansies/violas around my backyard, and I deliberately chose a variety of interesting colors and patterns.They settled in throughout the winter and then in spring they really started to flourish, turning up their faces to the increasing sunshine.  Recently, I went out and got down on my hands and knees and took up-close photos of all the different varieties of colors and faces and thought you'd enjoy seeing their amazing variety....  (And now when I go out in the backyard I feel like there are crowds of happy pansy faces all smiling at me!)

 

 

 

 

 And to end this post, here's Katie's pensive pansy pose:

HAPPY FRIDAY!

I Love Pansies, Too

I had so much fun combining flower photos with my stitched pieces that I'm doing another one! Here's a real pansy collage - blog style.

First some photographed pansies:


Then my stitched PANSIES:


...with an up-close look at how I stitched these pansies on 24 ct. Congress Cloth:



And here's my stitched PANSY COLLAGE, with pansies stitched in several different ways:



I hope you enjoy all these happy pansy faces as much as I do!