Searching for Roy G Biv II: Violet Update #3

My Search for VIOLET took place over last weekend while visiting my good friend, Laura and her family in Virginia Beach.

VIOLET could be found in the vegetables in Brian's ever-expanding garden.

Here are some pole beans still on the vine...

...and fresh picked. When they are cooked they turn green and are delicious with a bit of melted butter.

Also from the garden...onions. First in their beautiful translucent skins (almost coppery)...

...and then without the skins...a vivid VIOLET.

On the garden tour, I spotted this leaf with VIOLET spots.

Brian's solution to keeping the sweet potato vines trained was to form a sweet potato tunnel! A cool respite from the hot, muggy afternoon.

The sweet potato is a relative of the Morning Glory with flowers spiraling open in the early morning. This one was already dying in the heat of the day.

There are some subtle VIOLETS in these photos of the sunset that came after a storm. This beach is on the Eastern Shore. We drove over the 20-mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel just in time to see this beautiful sight.

We then drove into the town of Cape Charles and visited a cooperative craft gallery called the Stage Door Gallery. Laura fell in love with this little ceramic plate by artist, Vesna Zidovec. I was so happy to give it to her as a gift and memory of a great weekend together.

Here is the VIOLET Challenge Fabric. Since Laura and I had so much fun printing with vegetables, I decided to use some to create this design.

I hope you will join in with your own VIOLET  photos. Please post them and leave a comment here or on Jennifer's blog and we will link to your blog. You have until midnight (Eastern USA time) Saturday, August 17 to post and comment. If you do, you will be eligible to win the Challenge fabric when a name gets drawn from the cap on Sunday morning.

The color VIOLET reminds Charlton Stitcher of her very Victorian grandmother. She provides some beautiful and varied VIOLETS from her travels and a Roy G Biv surprise!

Fiona at Paper Ponderings explores the senses (especially the sense of smell) as it pertains to books. A lovely bowl of dried VIOLET petals brings back memories.

Kim at Letting in the Light made a precious VIOLET book to celebrate the last color of the rainbow.

Check out Jennifer's eclectic mix of VIOLETS...love the yarn bombings!

Visit Lisa at arzigogolare for a look at her VIOLET finds from the seaside and view an exquisite sunset over Venice.

Cindi at The Organic Manic has joined in with her Alaskan VIOLETS...just gorgeous!

Maya at Million Little Stitches found streets of petal strewn VIOLET and a VIOLET house (VIOLET and purple are Vaastu colors in India).

Searching for Roy G Biv Challenge II: Indigo Update 3

Is this Indigo? Well maybe not exactly, but I couldn't resist a photo of these inky blue-black berries!

This month's search was a bit tricky for me. What is INDIGO? Is it a fluorescent violet color? Is it a deep almost black-blue or a soft worn blue like Indigo dye? Very perplexing! Just as we did for Roy I, Jennifer and I have left the color INDIGO up to your interpretation.

Blueberries...are they Indigo? I don't know but the ones from the farmer's market were certainly delicious!

My search had me heading to the local farmer's market last Saturday. It was about a 30 minute walk from my home and when I got there the produce did not disappoint. I'm realizing that I may have a thing for photographing fresh produce!

Is this Indigo? A luminescent Morning Glory.

Hope you will join in with your interpretation of this ever elusive color. To play along, post up to five (we are very lenient about this!) photos on your blog (or website or Flickr page) and post a comment here to let me know you are joining our blog hop game. I will link to your posting. If you do not have any of the above and would still like to play, email me some photos and I will post them here. The game continues until 12 midnight (Eastern USA time) Saturday, July 20. I'll continue to post updates as new entries come in.

Indigo fabrics from my stash.

As mentioned in my previous post, the Challenge fabric this month is actually a trio of fabrics. Play along and you will be eligible to win when I put the names in my husband's baseball cap on Sunday morning.

Hop on over to my cohort Jennifer's blog to view her beachy INDIGOS.

Charlton Stitcher has a lovely array of INDIGOS some from as far away as Thailand and some as close as her sewing basket.

Kim Henkel at Letting in the Light created a pair of INDIGO earrings for the occasion. Her wooden giraffe makes a handsome model!

Fiona at Paper Ponderings explores the concept of process in her weekly Thursday Thoughts along with a meticulously stitched piece of INDIGO Sashiko.

Cindi at The Organic Manic brings us beautiful Alaskan INDIGOS.

Lisa at arzigogolare has some amazing musical INDIGOS and a bit of history about the color...hmm  maybe we should be searching for Roy G Buv?!

Christine Mauersberger has the INDIGO vat going and some gorgeous scarves! 

A late entry by Maya at Million Little Stitches. Glorious INDIGO skies from way up high.

Searching for Roy G Biv II: Blue Update #2

 I've been having quite a relationship with the color BLUE this month! Lots of painted and printed BLUE fabrics for projects and to sell. My contribution to the Search this month had me looking back to an amazing outdoor sculpture I discovered during a morning walk in San Francisco on a brilliant BLUE day.

The Search also includes photos from my recent walk around the streets of Old Town Alexandria in Virginia on a VERY rainy day (my sandals are still drying out!).

Two inviting places to sit.

A blue still life in a wonderful tea shop on Union Street.

Love this shutter--all askew.

The ubiquitous hydrangea, enjoying a good dousing of rain.

 If you are new to the Search for Roy (the colors of the rainbow), it's a little game that Jennifer Q and I came up with in the spring of 2012. Each month, we search for a particular color of the rainbow. This month it happens to be BLUE. Post up to five BLUE photos (it's okay if you do more) and leave a comment here or at Jennifer's blog and we will link to your blog. Or if you don't have a blog, send your photos to me in an email and I will post them for you here. You have until Saturday, June 22 (midnight Eastern USA time) to post.

 In addition, each month I create a Challenge Fabric in the color of the month. Here is my BLUE fabric.

By playing along, you have the opportunity to win this fabric in a drawing on Sunday, June 23.

Hope to see lots of BLUE today!

Check out the BLUES happenin' at Jennifer's blog this month (she's been having a love affair with BLUE and boy does it show!).

Deb at saltbushstitch was an early bird this month, posting her BLUES a day early!

Charlton Stitcher has a delightful tour of BLUE from her recent trip to Scotland.

Kim at Letting in the Light has an eclectic selection of BLUES and one in particular that is dear to her heart (congratulations, Kim!)

Fiona at Paper Ponderings has a thought-provoking BLUE.   

Liz has a deep twilight BLUE that draws you in.

Maya has an assortment of cobalt BLUES...but I can't get over that fish! 

Cindi at The Organic Manic joined the Search this month. She found herself surrounded by BLUE...which happens to be one of her favorite colors. 

Lisa at arzigogolare has joined in with some up-in-the-air and earthly BLUES.
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Searching for Roy G Biv II: Green Update #3

Love this little green bird on her green perch.

Green fence and shadows.

Soft greens from a neighborhood walk.

Luminous green.

Luscious green grapes from the Farmer's Market at the Ferry Building, San Francisco.

Green tomatoes also from the Farmer's Market at the Ferry Building, San Francisco.

It's that time of the month again! Time to post your photos for this month's Search for Roy G Biv (the colors of the rainbow). As you can see this month's color is GREEN.

To play along just post some GREEN photos by midnight, Saturday, May 18th (Eastern USA time) and make a comment here. I will link back to your blog or  website or Flickr. If you have none of those, feel free to email me (threadborn@gmail) with your photos and I will post them here.

Looking forward to seeing all the variety (remember, tints and shades encouraged!) of GREENS today.

Here again is this month's Challenge fabric. The drawing will be on Sunday, May 19th. In order for your name to go into the hat, you must play along.

Be sure to take a look at my Roy co-host (or is it cohort?!) Jennifer's blog for D.C. GREENS.

Kim at Letting in the Light has created a lovely bit of GREEN.

Fiona at Paper Ponderings is pondering a great Picasso quote and abstract GREEN this month.

Some lovely organic GREENS from Margaret over at Charlton Stitcher. 

Maya at Million Little Stitches has a selection of hot summer GREENS. 

Lisa at arzigogolare has some edible psychedelic fractal GREENS (perfectly legal!). GREEN Part 2 features getting up close and personal with olive trees...with a Part 3 yet to come!

Deb at saltbushstitch has some gorgeous sea glass GREENS.

More Orange and Roy Winner

Orange Challenge Fabric

I'm happy to report that the search for orange continues...

Lisa at arzigoglare has a luscious sampling of Florentine oranges. She was inspired to sit down at her studio table and create some absolutely wonderful orange (and terracotta and copper) colored paper houses. Enjoy this rich selection of oranges.

Charlton Stitcher has also posted a second day of orange delights. She focused on this year's challenge of finding tints and shades of the color of the month. What an imaginative selection you'll find in her post.

I'm also happy to report that the names went into the hat and Charlton Stitcher is the winner of this month's challenge fabric...Congratulations! Please send me an email with you mailing address and the fabric will be heading your way. (threadborn@gmail.com).

Thanks to all of you who participated this month and for passing the word along to others. Next month it's yellow...I'm already on the search...

Searching for Roy G Biv II: Orange Updated

Carrots from Golden Harvest in Kittery, Maine.

It's been a crazy month so I had to go to the archives for my ORANGE.

Heirloom gourds from the local farm stand.

Red peppers from the Farmer's Market outside of the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

Pumpkins also from the Farmer's Market, San Francisco.

I seem to have a thing about produce!

Just a few more photos for a bit of variety.

Nasturtium, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Andy Warhol from the Modern Art Museum in San Francisco.

Yardage I designed and printed for Caos on F Gallery.

Looking forward to seeing your ORANGE this month. Leave me a comment, and I will link to your photos. If you don't have a blog, website or Flickr page, send me an email and I'll post your photos here. Just a reminder that I will continue to update this post through Saturday midnight (or add a supplement in another post).

Here is the ORANGE Challenge Fabric. It fits with this month's produce theme. The background texture is made from a lentil block and the blue shapes are carved grapefruit rind. I'll be drawing names on Sunday morning for the lucky winner. Remember, you have to play in order to be eligible for the drawing.

For more ORANGE, check out my cohort, Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's blog.

Take a look at the variety of ORANGES over at Charlton Stitcher. Love that stash of fabrics!.

Be sure to stop by Kim Henkel's blog, Letting in the Light  for some very artful ORANGES.

Maya at Million Little Stitches has some wild ORANGE.  

Lisa at arzigogolare is experimenting with copper wire (close enough to ORANGE for me!). The freesias have made it into a beautiful bouquet of ORANGES  and pinks. 

Deb at salt-bush-stitch was out and about for her ORANGES.


Be sure to visit Susan's blog to see all the marvelous close-up ORANGES.