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Monday, June 05, 2006

Another Finish... and my Garden


Ahhh boy this feels good to get things accomplished! Last week in the mail I received Ruth's Teresa Wentzler Round Robin. As I mentioned yesterday, I sat down and figured out what I wanted to stitch also to make sure I had all the supplies on hand. Which I did.

For this TWRR (the bottom band is mine) I stitched the inner dragon scene border from TW's "The Fortunate Traveller". Ruth had two skeins of overdyed silk that if we wanted to we could incorporate. Which I did. The gold outer border on my band is a Gumnuts silk. The lazy daisy leaves are a Glorianna silk (my favorite brand!). Anyhow I'm quite happy with how it turned out and happy to have one goal for June completed!

Tomorrow I'll be pulling Montreal Sampler back out... finally!

Today after work I finally got out and took pictures of some of my flowers in bloom in my gardens. Including my first Clematis which is just spectacular! I've missed a number of my irises as it has rained a lot here over the last week. Some of my irises will need splitting come August.




9 comments:

Cindy said...

Congrats on your finish!

Your flowers are absolutely beautiful :)

Heidi said...

Congratulations on meeting a June goal! It looks great! LOVE your flowers too!!!

Karoline said...

Congratulations on the RR it's lovely as are your flowers

Carol said...

What a cool TW RR! Nice job, I love the band you selected!

I adore your garden pics! Thanks! I have those same black columbines in my garden. Grew them from seed on my kitchen windowsill in 2001, so am kind of proud of them... so happy to see them in your garden too :-)

Katrina said...

Hi Dani, the flower pics are amazing, I wish I could say I had flowers to show from my garden too but since its winter here I've got nothing in my gardens except for leaves everywhere :)

great pick for the band RR too, it looks amazing. hope your week is going well.

Anonymous said...

Wow Dani...if you are splitting Irises in August...and the retreat is on the 26th of August...well...need I beg? I will if I have to...I would love some irises for my garden!!!! I noticed so many in various people's gardens laely and realized that I have none!!!!
Is this a broad enough hint????

Ann McD

Karin said...

Fantastic flowers Dani! And the RR looks wonderful.

Sharon said...

Your flowers are beautiful. I unfortnately kill everything I touch! Love the RR.

Karen said...

Love the garden pictures!! That clematis is beautiful. Do you know the name of it?? I recently started to grow them, too, and so far I have three of them (Candida, Henryi and Artic Queen). They're all white, so I'm due for one with great colors like yours. : )