My House Quilt - Pink Confetti Tree Block

 

This is a block from my House Block Bee Quilt. I participated in an on-line bee with eleven other quilters. We were each assigned a month by our queen bee. Before the first of my assigned month, I mailed out fabrics to the others to be used to make a house block for me. I purchased the blue fabric for the sky and the green fabric for the grass. I sent each person a couple of owls and a couple of children to be included in their block. Then I looked through my stash and included scraps to be used for houses, trees, etc. Each quilter could also add their own fabric, if they wished.

Now, there are risks to being in an on-line bee. Other quilters may not be as skilled as you are. There is a chance that someone will keep your fabric and not return a finished block to you. But on the flip side, you will undoubtedly receive blocks with details you would never, ever think of yourself.  I would have never chosen to make a tree out of the pink confetti fabric, but it gives the block a very playful feeling.  I love the "rose garden" on the side of the house and the two girls peeking out of the window.

 

What Is Pink?

 

Pink is the color of a rose.

They come in other colors

But everyone knows

Pink is the mother-color of a rose.

Pink is a new baby,

The inside of a shell.

Pink is a cooked shrimp

And a canterbury bell.

Pink is peachbloom

Gauzy . . . frail

The wind's exquisite

Wedding veil.

Pink is a bonbon,

Pink is a blush,

Some Easter bunnies

Are pink plush.

If you stand in an orchard

In the middle of Spring

And you don't make a sound

You can hear pink sing,

A darling, whispery

Song of a thing.

Pink is the beautiful

Little sister of red

My teacher said,

And a ribbon girls tie

Round their head.

Pink is the sash

With the lovely fold

You'll remember

When you're old.

Pink is the flower

On a lady's hat

That nods and bows

This way and that.

 

                     from Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill

 

 

 

You might also enjoy reading my previous blog post:  A 1942 Quilts Booklet by The Spool Cotton Company and Jennifer Chiaverini's First Quilt