Queen Anne's Lace

One of my favorite wildflowers is Queen Anne's Lace. Every summer when I spot these flowers growing along the roads, I get this urge to stop and pick the flowers. If you have ever picked these flowers, you know they are not easy to pick without scissors or a knife. And as luck usually has it, I never have scissors or a knife. This spring I have noticed some Queen Anne growing across the road from our new school. Since I am still working and schools have scissors, I picked myself some flowers this afternoon, brought them home and placed them on my mantle. Aren't they beautiful in the green glass vase? Every year I say I am going to collect the dried flowers for seeds and try to grow some in my flower bed.


My mother used these flowers in her wedding bouquet. Wish I had a picture of her and her bouquet.


She spoke often of how as a young girl, she and her mother would pick them and place them in the same green glass vase. Sometimes they would add food coloring to dye the flowers.

Now for an update on my recent sewing and knitting projects:
I participated in an apron swap organized by Abby (A Feathered Nest)and made this apron -


This is a small dish scrubber made with cotton yarn and tulle. I knitted a small one to try out while washing dishes instead of my usual Scotch Brite pad.

So far, it is a hit according to my husband and assistant dishwasher.