Sweet Violets

Violet Mile a Minute Blocks

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge for the month of June is Purple.  Two weeks ago I sorted all my purple scraps and then divided them into Blue/Purple  (Indigo) and Red/Purple (Violet).  Can you see the difference?  This week I worked on the violet Mile a Minute blocks.  To see what others have done with their purple scraps click on soscrappy.

Indigo and Violet Mile a Minute

 

Other words we like to use for the colour Purple include Mauve, Lavender, Lilac, Amethyst & Plum.

Perception is itself a form of grace ~ Diane Ackerman

Blue Batik Quilt

Blue Batik Quilt

Anne’s beautiful blue batik quilt was made as a wedding gift for her niece.  We decided that the Drip pantograph from Beany Girl Quilts would be a nice quilting design for this blue quilt.

Drip pantograph

Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique and I find when working with batiks that I often still smell the wax.  Traditional batik colours include indigo, dark brown, and white.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature:  to make beautiful things has more. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Two times Toonie Tuesday

Star Quilt

This Star quilt was a monthly program at Freckles Quilt shop.  This little star sampler that you see inside the large star was available once a month on a Tuesday and it cost $4.00 or two toonies (what we call a two dollar coin in Canada).  All the money collected was donated to a couple of Calgary high schools to go toward helping students in need.

At the end of the program customers could purchase the finishing kit, which for this quilt was the larger stars, sashing, borders and binding.  I think it finishes the quilt nicely.

Quilted with the Shooting Star pantograph by Sue Schmieden.

The Canadian 2 dollar coin, commonly called Toonie, was introduced on February 19, 1996.  

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu

Indigo Mile a Minute

Indigo Mile a Minute Blocks

Sorting through my scrap drawer I pulled out everything purple.  I’m trying to work out in my mind the difference between indigo and violet and selecting fabrics in these two colours – I’m really working on this Rainbow idea.  Once I sorted my scraps I then resorted into a blue purple pile and a red purple pile.  This week I sewed the blue-purples - Indigo – into 'Mile a Minute' blocks.  Check out what others are doing with Purple in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Soscrappy.

Though the word indigo has existed in English since the 13th century, it may never have been a common part of the basic color-naming system.  The mental maps of English speakers appear to contain just six basic spectral colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

 

Colour!  What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams - Paul Gauguin