The inspiration for this quilt is a quilt in the "Everything Flowers" book by Jean Wells. The top has been done for many years, and at first I kept looking for another border, thinking that the bright green was a first border. After awhile I decided it didn't need another border but I couldn't figure out how I wanted to quilt it so it stayed in the UFO box. This one is 21" x 27".
Late last year I decided to start looking for a binding for it, hoping I would finish it then
I found this stripey Nancy Crow fabric and liked it. For quilting I stitched in the ditch in the crazy pieced roses and did diamond shaped leaves in the green areas.
I had a name for this one singing in my head while I was making it. The name comes from the song "In the Garden". When I was in third and fourth grade in a little one room school house the teacher would play the piano and all 12 of us would sing the songs she taught us. One of our favorites that we would request was "In the Garden". It is a Christian song by C. Austin Miles, copyrighted in 1912.
Late last year I decided to start looking for a binding for it, hoping I would finish it then I found this stripey Nancy Crow fabric and liked it. For quilting I stitched in the ditch in the crazy pieced roses and did diamond shaped leaves in the green areas. I had a name for this one singing in my head while I was making it. The name comes from the song "In the Garden". When I was in third and fourth grade in a little one room school house the teacher would play the piano and all 12 of us would sing the songs she taught us. One of our favorites that we would request was "In the Garden". It is a Christian song by C. Austin Miles, copyrighted in 1912.It starts out "I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses". So the name of this one is "The dew is still on the roses". I am trying to decide whether to be literal and add beads for dew on some of the roses, or just leave it alone.