Pansies

My first garden had pansies.  I got them planted late and my grandmother said they wouldn’t do well because they liked cool weather. I didn’t know details of planting a flower garden.  I just liked the bright colors and never mind the details–like watering, weeding and something about dead heading.  I didn’t plant pansies again for a long time after that first summer garden.  Now we plant them as winter Texans and then take them back to Hannibal and they last all summer.  My best luck, however, is with fabric flowers and I love learning new ways to portray them in quilted projects.  This pansy was started in a class with Lenore Crawford at Quilt Week Paducah, 2014.  It’s not quite done but I am happy with the progress thus far.  Full picture when I finish it but the lack of accessibility of thread close by will mean putting it away until later.