Joining in with Cathy’s Vase on Monday, here is a celebration of self-sown purple loosestrife and marigolds with a purple blue and pink lace-cap hydrangea, sitting on a stretch of crochet that is waiting, oh so patiently, to be sewn into a cushion cover.
with some added self-sown burdock
the burdock is the tall, large-leaved plant in the centre of the picture below, just after I pruned off its spreading side branches
I do not yet know what to do with a large gravel area at the front of my house and have allowed things to self-seed and added a few pots. It has been a wonderous mass of plants and teems with life. The burdock has been a top bug hotel hosting zillions of blackfly, ladybirds, ants, tincy spiders, shield beetles and probably hundreds of others I haven’t spotted.
I have been fascinated watching it through the seasons
Joining in with Cee’s ‘Flower of the day’.
And playing around with a new ‘effect’ I found on my camera ……
I see more Doodle shapes – I can see I’m going to have fun with that camera setting.
The corner to corner crochet as it will look as a cushion to sit next to the Society6 cushions, which are made from photographs of my machine embroidery printed onto fabric.