Here it is, over a week from my last post. The lawn has been mowed again, and a few more photos taken, though I have not uploaded them, yet. I have run upon a bit of creative block. I have been working on a piece that has a deadline of May 30, and is causing trouble. I have had a part of it done, and know what I want to portray, but things just seem to crop up and sidetrack me. I am working on a large piece that will have a stone wall with a stained glass window in it, and ivy climbing up the wall. The picture is almost all in my head, but when I try to work on it, other thngs keep popping in. I spent the afternoon leafing through landscaping books for ideas. I thought that I would like some kind of foundation planting under my window- a bush or shrub- but what type, and how to portray it?? More than one idea has cropped up. One is a simple trimmed evergreen, another would be a blooming shrub, such as an azalea, or similar plant, or even maybe the branches of a blooming dogwood tree gracefully entering from one side of the scene.
I guess maybe idea overload again… The stone wall has been proceeding- I know it will be a more formal wall than the previous pieces- done the satin-stitch seamed way. It will be made of crazypatch blocks of "stone", with the satin stitch seams as the mortar. I also know I want there to be ivy vines crawling up the wall, and around the window. Now, I just have to decide how I will landscape the rest of the piece.
It's funny, looking at last weeks post, and how positive I was looking at things, and now, the past few days I have been a bit down. I have been working in my gardens, but don't have the money to purchase annual flowers to add the really bright colors I am craving. I do have a batch of baby seedlings of petunias, alyssum, and dianthus, but it's hard to wait. I have gotten a dozen pansy plants, and a dozen impatiens, so my deck planters have a little color. I may have to cover them, if things get too cold tomorrow night. The impatiens are pretty touchy with cold- It's real sad to see how many plants have been killed at the *-Marts. They leave the babies out in frost, etc. and don't water when needed. Hard to look at, when I had spent most of my life keeping our greenhouse plants the best possible.
Hopefully, in the next few days, I will find the solution to the creative block, and something new will begin to bloom in the gardens. There are new perennials popping their heads up every day. Just more of life's up's and downs- kind of like a Roller Coaster.
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
