Friday 26 February 2016

...how does your garden grow?

Well...
mine has grown
quite a lot
over the past four weeks...
 
 
I started with "sewing"
a row of beautiful
bright
summer daisies :)
 
 
...and it just kind of grew...



 





 
...so how does my garden grow?
It grows a little every day,
and now there are more than enough flowers
for one garden.
There will be two:)
 
Today I am at home,
working in the "garden":)
 
I visited a friend this week,
who has created the most beautiful garden,
over the past couple of years,
and the simple joy of walking
around her garden,
chatting about the plants
and flowers,
was all the more special
when you don't have one of your own.
My mother,
too,
has a heavenly garden.
No matter what time of the year
it always looks so beautiful,
even in the dead of winter.
For me,
gardens have the most amazing ability
to change the way you might be feeling,
always for the better.
 
This was one of my favourite gardens
I visited last year
in the
 tiny French village
of
Hautpoul.
A beautifully recreated
medieval garden...
 
 




 
So when I stitch my flowers,
it feels a little like
I'm gardening,
until I can do it again
for real.
Today I've been setting the flowers
into their garden "beds",
stitching the occasional new one
to fill a gap...
and so my garden grows:)
 
Thank you so much for the lovely comments
left on my last post.
So very kind,
and I'm happy that my wee flowers
make you smile :)
Back to my "gardening" now :)
See you
 Jenny xx


Monday 1 February 2016

...I stitch flowers...

I decided to stitch
myself
a garden...
I have no garden where I currently live,
it's a perfectly lovely little unit,
but there are no flowers!
 
Needed that distraction last week,
and decided that bright
summery
flowers
would do the trick :)
 
 
...have to say,
I'm loving the colours
and the texture of the linen :)

 
And it's a wee bit addictive,
this row of flowers...

 
...I stitch a few each night,
and
watch my garden grow :)
 
Corny,
I know,
but who doesn't
feel good
when they see flowers...
 
 
 



 



 
I love flowers!!
I took a gazillion pictures
of quite possibly every flower I saw
when I was away last year:)
(possibly one of the reasons why
a walk in the hills or forest
often seemed to take atleast twice as long
as the recommended time??)
 
...they're an endless source
of inspiration...
 

 
 

 
 
...so many yet to stitch...
 
So I stitch what I love,
and one of the things
I love
is flowers!
 
What about you...
what do you love to stitch?
Stitch what you love,
love what you stitch...
 
See you
Jenny xx