GREEN 2020 - Viridis Begins

Lynne gave me this book -  GREEN: The History of a Color

 by Michael Pastoureau for Christmas last year.

Little did she know that green was to be the subject of

this year's challenge for the Davies Quilt Show.

I really like the definition of VIRIDIS - 

"everything that is green or pertains to the color green."

Seems like a terrific name for a quilt.

Little Man kindly shared his cold with us

when he was here last weekend,

so I didn't feel much like standing and cutting squares

for the back of the 70s quilt (or much of anything else).

Instead, I pulled out these green strings

and some 1" (cut) strips of pink and started playing.

(because this will be a 24" x 24" wall quilt, I'm not 

bothered about the weight of sewing onto muslin squares

that will remain inside the finished quilt)

A few hours later I had sixteen 6" (finished) string blocks.

(I have put them away for the time being

until there is space to arrange them on the design wall,

so the layout you see here is not the final one)

Considering how gray and rainy 

and just plain dreary it was outdoors,

these happy greens definitely lifted my spirits.

Now if only they could cure a cold . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

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