Scrappy blooms

As the weather turns here in Winnipeg

(we went from a high of 31 degrees Celsius on Wednesday to cool, windy, and rainy yesterday)

 I've been growing some flowers in my sewing room

Here are some buds, started in the centre with tiny scrap triangles

and built on each side with narrow strips of 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide

Here is the full-blown blossom, started in the middle with a small half square triangle,

and built half log cabin block style

some scrappy leaves.

the two at the left were each cut in half and a stem inserted

The buds and the flower.

I've been playing with these on a b/w background.

Stay tuned.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers.