03.09.09
Posted in Design Theory at 5:37 pm by deRomilly
I almost feel guilty with this week’s photos. You see, the color was green, and it’s spring here in NC, so as soon as the snow melted last week we were back down to daffodils, blooming forsythia and every shade of green imaginable. No. You don’t understand. I’m from the Pacific Northwest I THOUGHT I knew what green was. Everything’s sort of a blue-ish green. Blue spruce, blue-green Puget Sound, dark green fir and hemlock, dark green oregon grape… green (if it wasn’t grey!).
Then I moved out here. In the spring. Which supposedly starts in February when the first crocuses and daffodils bloom. And peonies. Well, you saw what happened to my peonies this year. The daffodils met a similar fate, although they are tired and still pushing along.
So. Green. Every shade imaginable. On my way home from work today I passed a grove where I swear there are at least 30 different shades of green in a 10 by 10 foot patch. Many of the yellow-greens that for a long time I believed lived only in my Crayola box, and not in nature.
And just because I intended these to go in the yellow post and was thwarted by snow from taking them…
So on to the pretties! As usual, you can click to make bigger. 
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Birdseed thief
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Cheeky little guy posed!
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And posed again before taking off!
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My backyard. Many shades of green.
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The moss under an oak tree
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Brocolli’s really a very pretty plant.
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More Brocolli
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Notice how very cleverly the GREEN is in focus!
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It may be yellow, but it’s still gorgeous!
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It’s got a bit of a green tinge!
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03.08.09
Posted in General at 4:42 pm by deRomilly
I’ve come down with a head cold. Too stuffed up to concentrate on editing green photos to post. Will try to get them done tomorrow.
In the meantime, somehow stitching crazy quilt seams isn’t nearly as dizzy-making as trying to work on the computer. So back to that! More photos soon, I promise.
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03.06.09
Posted in Stitching Genres at 7:42 pm by deRomilly
That I forgot I had done!!
I was trying to pull stuff together to start embellishing those blocks for the Encrusted Crazy Quilt class… And found a block that I’d started and not finished a while ago. There were two little seams left to finish. So as a warm up to stitching the new one, I finished it.
It’s very simple as crazy blocks go, intended as a large pillow for the living room. Made out of cotton decor fabric I was given by an interior designer from old samples (make friends — they give you WONDERFUL fabric!!) and embroidered entirely in cotton 6 strand floss, I think it will make a lovely pillow. Detail photos below. Click any of them to view larger.
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03.02.09
Posted in Design Theory at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Yellow was supposed to be easy. The daffodils bloomed last week. We had 70 degree weather! Um… yeah. and I got stuck behind a desk while the sun was out.
So. Three photos. All of bananas. Well, one banana. Tonight it’s supposed to snow. So there may be photos of daffodils in snow later, like the peonies.
The entire banana. Quite a pretty shade of yellow. Delicious, too. 
The END of the banana is just plain interesting. It LOOKS like it’s been burnt where it’s cut off the tree.
I LOVE the details when you look at it up close.
And this weekend there were lovely yellow costumes on a couple of the dancers. I’ll provide links when my favorite photographer puts her photos up.
Next week… green!
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03.01.09
Posted in Classes at 8:19 pm by deRomilly
Block 1
I am taking Sharon Boggin’s Encrusted Crazy Quilt class this month through Joggles. Despite all the bellydance workshops and shows this week, I managed to get two blocks pieced.
The first wasn’t as successful as the second, initial design-wise, but I’m hoping I can fix some of the problems in the embellishment stage: the most glaring being the horizontal line a third of the way down that goes all the way across the block! That came from using a block that was too big as my first block, and putting it down too close to the bottom of the block off the bat… Lesson learned. But I REALLY wanted to use the entire leaf!
Block 2
The second block is better balanced, but to my eye it seems VERY busy. Of course, I was told to “overload” it, so this may be a good thing!
As usual, click to make bigger.
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