2007 July 28 | Suzanne Earley

Is this Queen Anne’s Lace?

We have a couple of these springing up in our front walkway area. Mark said he had cut them out before because he thought they were a weed, but let them go this year because….he just did.

Driving home from grocery shopping last night we noticed that the ditches were full of it. Iowa has a pretty extensive program to seed ditches and roadways with native wildflowers and plants, making us wonder about this. I had a slightly different idea in mind of what Queen Anne’s Lace looks like, but when I visit Wikipedia, my photo appears similar to what they picture. The Wikipedia entry is actually titled Wild Carrot and makes it sound like these are a weed, having been imported from other places.

Anyone care to comment?

Suzanne

When she sees the fabric I bought yesterday.

I have spent most of my life telling everyone that I hate paisleys. It was an irrational hatred that I couldn’t actually explain, I just….didn’t like paisley. My mom, on the other hand, loves paisley — and has been collecting paisley fabric in order to make a quilt of all paisleys…

In recent months, I’ve….softened my position…and don’t really HATE paisley anymore……

Look what I found yesterday:

Isn’t that bottom fabric adorable? Now, I don’t like ALL paisley fabric, but I’m willing to admit that it has it’s charms. (The top fabric is a stripe that went with it. I got 2 yards of the stripe and 3 of the paisley — finished the bolt…)

I also bought this to be the back of my crayon box quilt: