Sharing My Greens

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  

It seems like a great day to share my greens. Green has been my favorite color for quite awhile. In my house. In my clothes. In my quilting.

I've been thinking about pulling my greens and making a really saturated all green quilt. Maybe using little bits of just about everything I have. Super scrappy and improv.

I've also been toying with a green Kaffe quilt. Who knows where or when these ideas might take shape but it's fun playing around with them.

It might also be time to finally get this green beauty quilted. It's been hanging with the other finished tops for way too long. Hate to admit that far too many of my quilts end up hanging in my cabinet awaiting completion.

Lastly my green checkerboard went off to be quilted this week. I don't have a photo of the finished top but you can get the idea here. It will soon be finished and on my bed. WaHoo!  I'll share finished photos once it's all done.

While you're in a green state of mind jump over to my green color post for even more green inspiration. And while you're at it visit all the other color inspiration posts here.

Hope you enjoyed a little green in your world today. I'll be enjoying a green beer or two tonight. Cheers!    : )

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Seeing Green

I live in Colorado along the Front Range. It's not the greenest place to live. While I truly love Colorado,
I miss the green of the midwest. This year though, Colorado had one of the wettest, longest springs in recent memory and everything is green. Even our normally pathetic grass is green. It won't last long now that the heat of summer has arrived, but I've certainly enjoyed a renewed focus on the color green. So here's to Seeing Green. Lots of green.

The green grass . . .

A variety of greens in the open space right behind our house. I love the intense shadows in the late evening this time of year.

Little green frogs in the pond down the street . . .

The pretty green eyes of one of my fuzzies . . .

Green outside and green inside too. Green is the base color throughout my house. It's a wonderful neutral that works beautifully with my seasonal decor. We even have new green couches.

Green plants plus lots of green leaf dishes in the dining room . . .

Green glass vases in the bedroom. One morning I woke up to find the sun shining through these vases, creating a lovely green shadow on the wall.

An original painting by Aunt Lu, done when she was in her 80's.

Lovely green jewelry by my daughter, Emily. Check out her website and new online store here.
This is one of my favorites. It even has a green saying.

If you read my posts regularly, you know I've just posted about making green quilt blocks for my bee. I'm also gradually working on the leafy checkerboard quilt for my bedroom. All this means I have lots of green fabrics to choose from, ranging from traditional to modern prints to solids and of course Kaffe.

Paint swatches and an emerald green block for the Pantone Color of the Year 2013.

My newest green quilt . . . Offset formally known as Tumbler.

And last, but never least, leaves, leaves and more leaves . . . after all, I'm SpringLeaf Studios.

Bluish green leaves . . . 

Yellow-green leaves . . . 

SpringLeaf Studios green . . .

If you're just joining me, my first color post was The Color Purple. I don't have any specific plan for this series other than continuing to post on different colors as the mood and inspiration strikes. I hope you find it inspiring. Look for future color posts at the top of my blog.

Thanks for reading. Now take a look at my daughter, Emily's green post. She is playing along and doing her own color stories on her blog. She takes some amazing photos.

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