Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Knitting the Seasons...May...Tulips

Daffodils predominate in our garden in April, and by May the tulips have taken over.  We had a lovely array of reds.  Many have cross-pollinated and so are striped.  The centres are interesting--black, violet and yellow.
Back yard tulips

Tulip with a yellow centre.
Using the yellow-centred tulip as a repeat motif.
Tulip with a violet centre.

Playing around with a Fair Isle motif from a book by Mary Jane Mucklestone, plus a corrugated ribbing in tulip colours.