Sweetness and Light

All the talk of the Roseville Album and it's glorious color has got me thinking about why I have long preferred the darker palettes of Civil War reproduction prints and Thimbleberries and Kansas Troubles and the like.

Truth is -- I'm just not that sweet!!

I have a small collection of 1930's reproductions.  All that pink and pastel and what not.  Even bright pastels! Sheesh! Who left the sugar bowl open!! I get the vapors just thinking about all that sweetness.  Next, someone will suggest we do Sunbonnet Sue's...see, now that's where I draw the line!!!  (Well, except for those fall ones I did here.)

I started a Feedsack quilt a few years ago.  It's ice cream sundae blocks are languishing in the UFO pile (yeah, no Work In Progress, here.  It's way back in the closet underneath the pile of upholstery fabric I will need in 2025 when I've worn out the cushions on my couch!).

There's an authentic feedsack or two in the mix (one my mother gave me), but most of the fabrics are repros.  I think I originally had nine blocks...don't have a clue where the other one is (perhaps in the box with the unfinished cross stitch projects of 1988).

I helped the looks of one of the blocks with a little "cherry" on top.

Yeah, buddy.  Sweetness and light.  Please, pretty please, with a cherry on top.

Blaaaaaaaaah!  Blaaaah, blaaah.                             Blaaaah. :-P

I never was much of one for sweetness.  Not much sentimental.  My sister keeps all the family photos.  The dust would eat them at my house.  I don't save all the mementos of my children; don't wax nostalgic about the fabrics of my grandmother's time.  If I didn't love Christmas so much, I would call myself a pre-revelation Scrooge!  

The appeal of the dark palette is different.  It's the tartness, perhaps, that makes it appeal to me! Those darker colors are the crispness of October apples, the colors of fall leaves, the smoke on the water as the cooler air touches the surface of it and whispers of burrowing animals and Thanksgiving feasts and the bite of Jack Frost in the not-too-distant days.

Sounds pretty sweet, after all, doesn't it!? :-D  Kinda like Noah's Ark and the rainbow of God's promise....

Sweetness and Light, indeed!! LOL
The Psalmist writes, "If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you...I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made..." (Psalm 139:11-12, 14)

Today, it's more "fearfully" than "wonderfully." :-D
Sundae, anyone!?

Blessings,