I worked on this for most of the week...
with Cinderella as my inspiration. While stitching Saturday morning, the day before the challenge was due, I was composing the narrative in my head. I remembered watching the prince offer his hand to Cinderella for their first dance together and how my heart went pitter-patter. I'm a confirmed tomboy with jeans and a T-shirt as my "uniform" for the winter and cut-offs and a tank top for the summer. But there's something about a fancy dress and a waltz that gets me. Around about this time in my musings it dawned on me (I'll bet you were WAY ahead of me) that Cinderella is not a nursery rhyme. Drat! Duh! Drat!
Her dress was set aside and I started again. This time with the nursery rhyme....
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells,
And pretty maids all in a row.
A little research on the web told me I didn't want any more inspiration thank you very much. Ick. So I thought about niece Mary (and, no, she's not contrary! just pretty & sweet) watering a pretty garden with rows of flowers. As ruffles were to be a part of my original quilt I couldn't let go of the idea. I ruffled some strips of green and sewed them into the seams of the quilt for grass. Then I ruffled down the center of a few small print floral fabrics and sewed through the center for rows of flowers above the grass.
Next I quilted stems and leaves between the grass and the flowers and surrounded all of it with green and white stripes to represent a white picket fence.
Mary started a web-site this week for her business called "re:Fresh by Mary" so I had a little fun with the name and called my finished project "Mary's re:Fresh-ing Garden".
All the rest of the projects can be seen at the Flickr page and at Kim's Crafty Apple.
2 comments:
That is very clever...and I like Cinderella's dress, too....am sure you'll use it in something else fun!
Beautiful garden. I love it!
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