Virginia A. Spiegel

Allure

I am not a big fan of red or yellow in the garden, but I make an exception for these bronze-y red and gold iris from my sister.  And what an iris year it is; I have never seen so many blooms on one stem ever before.  In the rest of the garden, the baby robins fledged (or just fell out of the nest. I despair over their future as they seemed so unformed still) and the pink peonies burst into bloom.  What a nostalgic scent!

My good cyber-friend Dawn Goldsmith has a very personal interest in the fight against ALS.  She has all the details about her local ALS Chapters’s newest fundraiser, a quilt raffle, on her great Subversive Stitchers blog.  

Go and visit Dawn’s blog or go right to the raffle quilt information and donate to this good cause.  I did! I made about 50 traditional quilts before I discovered art quilts, so I appreciate the work that goes into a queen size quilt.  

Trish Bowman of Jersey Girl Quilts pieced and quilted the queen size quilt.  It includes Hoffman batiks and colors were chosen to reflect hope and joy and a bright future. It is an Eleanor Burns pattern of double tulips.