… but our garden is green and in bloom nevertheless.
Eselsdisteln
Cotton Thistles (Onopordum acanthium) are biennial. They grow very tall in their second year. These are in our back yard and are about 2 metres tall.
Eselsdisteln (Onopordum acanthium) im zweiten Jahr. Diese stehen hinten in unserem Garten und dürften locker zwei Meter hoch sein.
Poppies
I love poppies!
These grow in our not-yet-landscaped garden.
Sewing project from two years ago
Two years ago I sewed a quilt that I gave away as a present to a couple on their wedding day.
The design is very heavily inspired by The Tempest Quilt by Cherri House of Cherry House Quilts fame.
The squares are all made from Kona Cotton solids by Robert Kaufman in ash, black, charcoal, coal, graphite, iron, med. grey, pepper, pewter, shadow, silver, sky, slate, steel, blue and indigo and match the couple’s living-room couch. For the small inset rectangles I used some print and some solid fabrics in the bride’s favorite color range. The solids are Kona Cotton in berry and cerise.
For the back in Kona ash I pieced a patchwork heart from the accent fabrics.
I quilted it with horizontal free-form wavy lines. For the binding I used Muslin Mates Bubbles in black by Moda, except for the lower left corner, which is made from one of the accent fabrics.
The quilt looked nice as a present even without wrapping paper!
Mass Shooting in Orlando
As usual, the MetaFilter community does a better job a finding links to relevant information and good background articles, so I’ll just link to their thread:
MetaFilter: Police: 50 killed in Florida nightclub terror attack.
Also, on Vox: Why “thoughts and prayers” aren’t enough after a mass shooting.
Read it and spend the seven minutes to watch “America’s gun problem, explained in 18 charts”. I will never understand why “the right to bear arms” trumps huge numbers of gun deaths – most of them suicides, but crime-related deaths and mass shootings as well.
As President Obama said in his statement on June 12, 2016:
“Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.“
(My emphasis.)