Spring

We've got a snowy, cloudy day in Iowa today. Calm is rare during the month of March but today, the first day of March is calm. The snow is falling straight down. Is spring coming in like a lamb? Out like a lion? Too early to tell. Green grass and flowers seem a long way off! I think we’re all hungering for greenery and the soft colors of spring. Let your imagination go and sketch a few of your favorite spring things.

The calendar has gotten me thinking of new designs, new color combos and preparations for the upcoming vendor show/hook-in at the Cream City Hook In, at the Boerner Botanical Gardens center, Milwaukee, WI. It’s a new location and looks to be just a beautiful venue for us.  Spring brings more life to my world and more adventures designing rugs and gardens.  I so look forward to the daffodils coming up and the scilla blooming along the fence. I do love winter and spring seems to be a long way off but I have hope when the sun shines even though we have 2-3 feet of snow on the ground. I won’t have water my gardens this spring!

Spring brings new growth the garden and hopefully to my somewhat dormant design mode. I have plans for several floral rugs, large and small. I never tire of finding new ways to draw flowers. Add a few cute animals and I'm satisfied.

Hopefully, your creativity wasn't dormant over the winter and you continued to hook and add color to your world. Let the little shoots of creativity come to the surface and bloom as the days get warmer and sunnier. Capture a thought, explore that thought, doodle that thought and save those doodles for a rug someday.

Cathy