March Color Your World - Green

Welcome to March 2022 AND Color Your World!  This new theme is just so fun and I cannot believe how much I've learned already.  This month we are going to explore GREEN - makes sense right?  After all - St. Patrick's Day keeps everyone in tune with the color during March.  Additionally, the world is starting to enjoy Spring - and that means green as well.  Our monthly project is featured here along with a BINGO card for those who wish to play.  I'll also have several GREEN blocks in Pat Sloan's sew-a-long, but she'll be using orange and we'll get to that in another month.  So, here ya go and enjoy -- oh yeah, grab that cuppa. 

My reading of the book, The Secret Lives of Color, by Kassia St. Clair has been just illuminating.  Each month I'm trying to share small tidbits, but would highly recommend the purchase of the book (NO, I do not get anything in saying that - YES, I've been asked).  This month, the section on green is fascinating and I had no idea how much trouble this color had even being accepted, much less used.  Wow.  At the end of the synopsis on green is this statement by Wassily Kandinsky:  "Absolute green," he wrote, "is the most anesthetizing color possible . . . similar to a fat cow, full of good health, lying down, rooted, capable only of ruminating and contemplating the world through its stupid, inexpressive eyes."   Well, alrighty then.  Tell us how you really feel.

Perhaps today, it is looked at a bit differently.  Green is the color of harmony and health.  Think Whole Foods - John Deere logos.  It is a generous, relaxing color that revitalizes our body and mind, balances emotions, and leaves us feeling safe and secure.  It gives hope, with promises of growth and prosperity, and provides a bit of luck to help us along the way.  The negative associations are "green with envy" denoting jealousy or being materialistic as it is associated with money in many countries.  I, personally, love green.  I'm a redhead and it's my complimentary color, so - there is that.

Nature is LOADED with green - from the beautiful green plants throughout the world that we love to see AND eat, to the aurora borealis in the sky.

Critters come in many shades of green --- mostly camouflaged and hidden, but they are there.

Isn't this just divine?  Literally.

This bring us to this month's table runner and here is the LINK.  It is called Going Green and is a free download.  We are taking a trip into the modern world this month -- yep, it's out of my comfort zone, but that's the purpose of this each month.  

First - select your fabrics.  I went with the grassier greens and just grabbed as much as I could find in the various bins.  This pattern uses 1 1/2" strips so if you have some of those laying around, grab them too.  My strip pile has not been sorted into the right colors in this picture -- that DID happen.

Let the cutting begin -- center squares first.

Then the smaller squares, backing, batting, and binding.  Different light --- same fabrics.  Crazy.

Next is block-making.  

Layout and top construction.

Sandwiching and binding making.

We are ready to quilt.

A little free-motion quilting with my 301, some trimming, and binding applied.

Binding is stitched down, threads buried.  It's a TA-DONE

On the table and ready for March.

Once again, if you've made it this far, here is your BINGO card for March.  Let's all bring a little "life" into our lives this month.  Have fun, take pictures, take pictures, take pictures and post in the group so we can all see what you are up to.