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Rabbit, rabbit! For May Day, I made a garland and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) thatosprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
spatch photographed me. The inspiration was nineweaving.
The awful razing of our yard last summer produced one unexpected result this spring: we have a ground cover of violets. I picked a sufficient-looking quantity and brought them inside where I discovered that my romantic idea of braiding a garland was woefully inadequate to the tendency of stems to snap. I knotted them at intervals with thread.
Considering that I cannot remember ever making a garland of wild flowers before in my life, I was pleased with the results.
In which I am doing my best to become a green man of the lilac, just budding but already summer-sweet.
The photographer thought I looked like a heroic statue.
Because everyone should be offered a branch of May, even if it's a Bradford pear.
And on the porch was sitting the copy of Vivien Alcock's A Kind of Thief (1991) that
osprey_archer had offered a week ago and Hestia had run across my computer to claim, so she will sit on it and I will read it and we will welcome in the spring.
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When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images. Your thread-assisted version works much better!
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Thank you! I decided that I wanted to make it when I saw the violets growing in the yard.
When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images.
I love the picture of the violets starred through the buttercups, though.
Your thread-assisted version works much better!
I was happy with it! I found out afterward that one is supposed to use floral wire or tape, but I do not feel bad about my solution.