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Guest FQ Pack Designer ~ Alicia Paulson
Fat Quarter Month was a great experience–we shared a lot of ideas and felt a new enthusiasm for the little piece of fabric once associated mainly with quilts. We’ve had a wonderful response to our fat quarter packs in the shop too. Although we’ve mostly been selling them by collection, we enjoy mixing and matching by print and color as well. One day we said, “maybe we should invite other people to compile some cool packs of fabric.” So we did.
Our first Guest Fat Quarter Pack Designer is Alicia Paulson. Alicia is the author of the amazing book, Stitched in Time, which is a must-have for any sewist interested in creating meaningful keepsakes. Her blog, Posie Gets Cozy, has held a top spot on our blogroll for years now. She’s constantly inspiring and awing us with her cooking, sewing, crocheting and crafting. Add to all that one of the most adorable dogs in blogland, Miss Clover Meadow, and you have the makings of a daily addiction.
Another one of Alicia’s many talents is her ability to capture the beauty of her hometown (and ours), Portland, throughout the year. (A wonderful example is yesterday’s Spring walk through the neighborhood.) We were thrilled when she decided to use the view from her window to draw inspiration for her fat quarter pack. She calls this group “Oregon April.” Whether you live in the Pacific Northwest or not, you have to admit it’s a lovely view.
We have a limited number of Alicia’s packs for sale in the shop. (UPDATE: Sold out but restocked.) We’ll give away a pack to one reader this week. Tell us about the view from your window this time of year. (You’ll also be eligible to win our Spring Sewing sponsor prizes of the week from Fiskars/Gingher, a Comfort Grip 45mm Rotary Cutter and a 12-in-1 Sewing Multi-Tool.)
UPDATE 2: Sold out again and some of the prints are out of stock, so we won’t be putting together any more. Some of the fabrics are still available though:
- Anemone Sage ~ Alexander Henry
- Flowers and Dots Pink ~ West Hill
- Floral Fantasma Pink ~ Alexander Henry
- Silhouette Polka Pink ~ Fairy Tip Toes
- Mosaic Kiwi ~ Daisy Chain
- Garden Maze Sky ~ Midwest Modern 2
- Flower Medallion Sky ~ Twiggy
- Sophie Cream ~ Revive
- Spots Gumdrop ~ Sweet
Normally when I read your blog I’m on a little break at work, so with that said…my view is of a large tree and shadowbox fence trying (with little avail) to block the view of the fraternity house next to my building.
Currently, please wait while I pause to turn around and look, *Gasp!* I’m staring at two men in a cherry picker getting ready to scrape paint of my window!!!!! LOL
The view out my window changes hourly. Spring in Utah is unpredictable – snow in the morning, warm winds in the late afternoon, rain in the evening. Today is gray and cold with patches of green here and there.
I’m counting on those patches of green.
I don’t think they know how much.
The sky here in Austin during springtime is a lustrous porcelain blue, arching above trees with tiny new leaves that just pulse with greenness. The sun, which in the summer is a pitiless scold, beams happily on everybody — more than likely delighted with the bluebonnets, evening primroses, and bright yellow daisies all around. Springtime in Austin is our best-dress season, when everybody looks cheerful and fresh-scrubbed and new.
My view is of my backyard. Right now it is pretty much weeds, which I’m slowly trying to pull. Hopefully in a month or two it will be covered in beautiful sod and with some planting beds started. We started re-landscaping our front and back yards two years ago. I’d really like to have to this project complete so that we can enjoy our back yard this summer!
Those are GORGEOUS! The view from my Texas window is a much darker, heavier green, a more summer green since we’re half-way there!
The view from my window..this morning..before my Bible reading time…I was watching a robin collecting straw and rope to build her nest. Up and down in the tree, down to the ground with one strand at a time. My thoughts were drawn to what perserverance that robin had…and how many times she would have to do that one strand at a time to build her home for her eggs. If that small bird could do that..how much more could I carry on my day with determination even the mundain things in my day to day activities.
Well I live in Vancouver WA so my views pretty similar to the one you have in portland
I see a lot of grey skies and rain soaked lawns, wet streets and little buds on the trees hoping for spring. Flowers starting to show up promising that soon the skies will turn blue and the weather will warm up soon!
This time of year in Texas I see everything getting lush and vibrant and green after some heavy spring rains. Wildflowers are springing up – blue and orange and yellow – and the sky is a brilliant blue. The colors are intense and bold, not yet bleached out by the hot summer sun.
This is ONE of my most favorite times of the year to look out my window. What I see is our lake frozen over with ice and covered with snow. We are getting near the time when the ice should be going off, but it has been cold. There is a little water around the edge where the ducks and geese are stopping by and every day the bald eagles are out fishing in the cracks. I love watching the ice go out and then we officially have SPRING.
The view is blowing in through my windows! The blossoms on the cherry trees in my back yard are starting to fade and fall like snowflakes, dusting my windowsills. The warm smells of moist earth come in with the breeze. But behind all this springtime beauty loom dark storm clouds, a stark contrast to the white blossoms. The greys and pastels in the designer FQ pack capture today so perfectly!
Today it is sunny and calm (hopefully it stays that way) and from my window I am watching a dozen or so birds eagarly explore the garden fountain I set up yesterday. They want to get in the water so bad but it is still to cold i think. The birdies are so happy and fluffy that it makes the brown grass and barren garden look hopeful again!
right now, i am looking out the window at my desk and i see the post office through bare tree branches. hopefully i will soon see snippets of the post office through leaves.
Seattle – this morning the ground is all wet and dark, but the sky is beginning to clear – casting a yellow green glow over all the shiny wetness. It is a stunning contrast b/w the deep dark earth brown and blue skies and bright green alive grass w/ clear drops all over everything. I like the idea of blending fabric based on the view outside.
Spring peas, green grass, roses about to bud, flowers in pots, kids in the yard. Almost like heaven.
Spring is fleeting in Florida. One day it is blustery and cool. The next, hot and muggy! Today’s window view is a welcome sight….RAIN! We are in the midst of an awful drought so waking up to the sound of pouring rain was a most wonderful thing. Looking out the window and seeing the water just pouring down(and wonder of wonder, only rain, no storm!) was such a beautiful sight! Things are greening up in just moments. Winning the beautiful fabric offered in the fat quarters grouping chosen by Alicia Paulson would just be the icing on the cake!!!!!
I love Alicia’s blog! I love Portland too!! Right now I am looking out my window and it is SNOWING….again…in Spokane…yeah not far from Portland!!! Those lovely fat quarters could cheer me up though!
Ooh, those fabrics are delicious! Out my window right now I see rain, occasionally snow. I long for and love the days when the sun sticks around for an afternoon and it feels like winter will finally leave. Soon, hopefully.
Everything is still pretty grey and wet out my window. I do have some primroses brightening up one corner of my yard, that faithfully come up each spring. Lots of plants budding out and lots of beds waiting for the snow to stop coming so I can head out and dig them up.
love it!!! i hope i win!
Great mix! I love fat quarter packs that include a mix of designers – so fun!
The view from my window is not yet spring-like (that’s Vermont for you!)… I’m still looking at brown grass and trees without leaves. When I look out though, I try to think of what it will look like in just a couple weeks when leaves start emerging and the grass turns green. That will be a much better view!
The view from here is still mostly browns, but little bits of greens are popping up everyday!
These fabrics look amazing! I would love to win this pack. Please enter my name in your draw.
Thank you and love checking out this blog every day.
Right now I see bare tree branches dripping with rain promising to give way to spring buds soon.
Here in the Southern-ish part of Texas, in San Antonio, Spring has been peeking out for a little while. The mountain laurels have bloomed and had their time and the redbuds have just finished bursting with pink loveliness. Now the trees are getting in on the party and the green leaves are showing up. Outside the front window of my house we planted a trumpet vine which just this year (after two years of growing) has burst with yellow flowers and orange centers! In fact, that might just be an inspiration for a flower in my next project. Spring has certainly sprung here, and it’s a surprisingly cool 59 degrees this morning. The high is 80 though. I am looking forward to enjoying the fresh spring light tomorrow as I sew all day in my fun and bright sewing room.
Anna
In Montana, we have a fresh coat of snow. Its never going to stop snowing here. yuck! Im ready for spring!!!
Wow, I would love to have some of those lovely fabrics. The view outside my window today is 60 degrees and sunny. The trees are blooming and the flowers are starting to peek through. Grass is starting to turn green (whoa, did it happen over night?) and is starting to grow. Ah, LOVE spring and I’m in the process of sewing up some Easter presents to various peeps in my life.
The view from my window is a mix between spring and winter. The still brown grass and grey concrete are peeking through the clean, white snow. The slowly melting door of my son’s snow fort is still visible, right next to the puddle of melted snow he was playing in this morning. My husband’s blue motorcycle is visible out on the street — our driveway is still too icy to park in or drive out of. My son’s red mittens have been abandoned in the snow. Spring will come. Slowly, slowly, it will arrive.
oops forgot my view from the window comment!!! My kitchen window looks out into the back yard. We have a plum tree up against the fence. Occasionally we see squirrels, stellar jays but mostly crows! Green grass and a swing set for my grandkids.
My view is has been spring-summer-winter all within a week! Denver’s been hit with fabulous sunshine and sudden thundersnow and blizzards. That’s the beauty of living here. You have to dress in layers and it’s always exciting to see what’s happening outside the window.
My peach tree just finished shedding its blossoms and has little green shoots on its branches. The sun is shining and the mountains are gorgeous. There isn’t a cloud in the sky. Living in New Mexico has fantastic early springs.
I love those organza flowers that were posted yesterday!!! These fabics are beautiful.
Sun! Sun! SUN! And a few rosy buds on my redbud tree! I would love to win some beautiful fabric. Thanks!
Well, right now it’s raining, so there are a lot of little birds hopping around in the mud.
Seriously. Fat quarters are my crack.
Right now? A very wet bush! It’s raining pretty hard. I guess spring really is here!
Oooh.. I love the pattern and would love the fat quarter pack!
What beautiful fabrics! I adore the soft colours. They’d work so well togther! Just gorgeous.
First of all, I have to say that I’m dying to have that collection of fq’s! It’s gorgeous. I lived in Oregon for a while one summer and those colors and shapes so remind me of my time there. Great eye. I too am a regular (lurker, lol) at Posie Gets Cozy, it’s a wonderful blog and I truly enjoy it.
We just moved about two months ago, so spring is the first new season we’ve welcomed at our little house. I thought the wild rose bushes were all red and pink, but right out my front window is the best surprise our yard has given yet – a yellow wild rose! Yellow and orange roses are my all time favorite so I couldn’t be happier. Since the bush is more like a tree, the birds love it too, which makes me even more ecstatic. Even living in the middle of town now, we still get a taste of the country. There are two shade trees that also face our window, and right now our lawn chairs and the baby’s outside playpen are tucked securely under the branches, just waiting for our evening visit. It’s a good yard and a great view. Spring rocks. :0)
I’d love to get my hands on this pack! Very beautiful and inspirational…
My view is so bright this time of year. I love Spring! Even though it is rainy here today, I woke up to my son coming through the monitor saying “Ma, Ma” and birds singing outside my window. Ah, Springtime! I have some ideas for fat quarters, need some great fabrics for inspiration. How beautiful are these??
I live in Kansas so my view changes day by day this time of year. It’s great because we get to watch all the color return throughout the month of April. Since it is still a little dreary right now, I love to use bright fabrics to brighten my days.
I live in sunny, southern ca. but the view from my window today is hazy/overcast out. you never know the weather this time of year. thanks for the giveaway!
Here in San Diego things look very similar in all seasons. If you know what to look for you can see the small differences. Out side my window the tree that’s kept it’s green all year is much nosier during this season. The birds go crazy. There are also fuzzy caterpillars making their way all over the place. I love spring the most.
Oh my gosh, I must have this! Wow, it’s soooooeeewwww pretty!
I live in Canada. Spring is trying very hard to arrive, but it has a difficult fight on its hands with the never-ending snow. The view from my window is filled with many shades of brown. Brown grass, half-covered in the graying and melting snow. A lake has formed in front of my house, a big black lake. I imagine it’s not going to stay long. I do hear birds chirping, which tells me only a few more weeks and I might stop wearing my coat!
The view from my window this week includes a new batch of recently hatched butterflys and a zippy hummingbird or two.
yeah I love fat quarter packs. I especially love the Botanica fat quarters, they are so beautiful
From my window I can see the wee little crocus popping up in the small patch of ground available in our crowded city. Now that the weather has warmed a bit there’s a lot more foot traffic, Mom’s, Dad’s, kids, students all hustling and bustling. But in my mind’s eye (having grown up in the Northwest) I see the tall evergreen trees, The Mountain and the rain soaked emerald hills. Thanks!
fun fabrics
What a great combo pack – I don’t have the brain to put something together like that! These days, I’m just excited to have a window I can look out of at work now! But since I’m SoCal, it’s usually the same view – mostly sunny, sometimes partially cloudy – I crave the variety I used to get in the Midwest (at least it kept things interesting – weather is a legit topic, not just a poor attempt at an ice breaker).
My view is rainy and grey, this time of year- but I do see trees blossoming with white and pink flowers, along with birds!
Just found your blog courtesy of Marie Grace. yeah! what a wonderful place, and am loving the alicia’s works!
teri
Oooh! I love them altogether. Love her book too. I’m working on the Farmgirl pillow at the moment.
The view outside my window is sunny and green today! Yay for spring!
Aren’t those fabrics beautiful together? The view from my window this time of year is beautiful. We are surrounded by farmland and I can currently look out and see a dove nesting in my flower box on the deck. She has two little ivory eggs. We had a lot of wind and stormy rain last night, and she held fast against the storm, covering her little eggs. Lovely.
The Atlanta area has had much needed rain so I am looking at dogwood, azalea and forsythia blooms with a pending heavy layer of pine pollen.
Beautiful!!
I’m a West Coast girl born and bred, now living in the South East swamps. I *miss* these colors of a Western Spring something terrible and looking at them here gave me a sense of *awww*. It’s a beautiful collection.
What I can see from my window is much different than a few years ago. Originally I lived in Illinois, and we lived in a small condo with no views but into other houses. My husband and I decided to move two years ago to California, and by chance we found a beautiful apartment that over looks the estuary waters between Oakland and Alameda. I love being able to watch the sail boats with their different colored sails, Coast Guard ships, and tug boats move in and out of the marina areas when they are headed out into the San Francisco bay for a day on the water. All of this is framed by the hills around Colma and Brisbane. This only gets more interesting when you look up a bit more and watch all the airplanes on their way into and out of the Oakland and San Francisco airport. I love being able to watch the sunsets through this window as well as watching the fog roll in from the ocean. If we ever have to leave this apartment I will be pretty sad because my view now provides me with so much inspiration.
The view from my window…a little drab: everything is brown. Spring is still a few weeks off. At least I’m not looking at snow right now, though we have snow slated for this weekend!
I’d love to win a FQ pack! Thanks for the entry!
The view from my window has been cloudy, foggy and rainy lately. I love spring and I can’t wait for the daffodils to bloom.
Usually the view from my window is absolutely beautiful this time of year, but today it is still snowy and bland. I can’t wait for Mother Nature to remember it’s Spring!
I have dear outside my window at the moment!
What a fun idea! I love Alicia’s Blog. Thanks for the chance to win.
Lovely! I can certainly see Alicia in these fabric choices!
The view.. wet and raining and wanting these fabrics to ingect a bit of spring!
these days, the view from my window is gray and rainy. but before long, the grass will start to grow and the daffodils will bloom!
My bedroom and sewing room look out over the hills of Berkeley. This time of year, the fruit trees are all in blossom. When the pear and apricot bud, the hills look dotted with snow. When the plums come out to show, everything is awash in pinks. At nights, the wind is scented with jasmine and wisteria which both thankfully grow like weeds, here.
pick me!!!
In Wyoming it isn’t a very pretty view yet. Our pretty spring view won’t pop out for another month. I love the fat quarter pack Alicia put together.
Jo Anna
What a great giveaway idea!!! I totally hope that I can win. The view out my window isn’t that great especially today as I am writing this since it is gloomy and rainy. I live in the city and my window points to the alley
not the best. But occasionally you do see some interesting people walking by 
I love Alicia and would be so excited to win! The view from a central Indiana window this weekend may very well be huge fluffy snowflakes falling on bright green grass, floppy daffodils, and sweet smelling hyacinths.
Living a bit north and even further west than Oregon, I look out the window to soft greens and the rich brown of my garden plot awaiting seeds. Delicate pink flowering trees and just now, a bluish-grey sky covered with thin clouds completes the view. Spring! Yay!
i live in florida, so my vegetable garden is growing full force these days… a very nice sight out my window.
Lovely fabrics! Unfortunately the view from my window isn’t near this colorful yet. A few crocus blooming, the magnolia tree just on the verge of popping out in beautiful pink blooms, but the best thing is the grass is getting green! Bright green! After a long gray Illinois winter, that’s the most welcome sight!
I live in Anchorage so right now I see snow that has begun to melt and is coated with ash from the recent volcanic eruptions. This time of year is known as “breakup” as everything begins to melt and it is not pretty! I sure could use some lovely fabric to brighten everything up!
Those are beautiful fabrics! The view from my window these days is rainy and cloudy, but I love the cloud cover having spent the last couple of years living in the Arizona desert!
The greens of the grass against the orangy tint of the wood fence and the beige bark of the peach tree with its candy pink flowers…
Right out my front window is my big magnolia tree that blooms almost year round. It’s especially beautiful in the winter, when it drops all it’s leaves and is just full of deep pink and cream flowers. We strung it with Christmas lights and keep them going all year long, as well.
Hmmm…well, spring isn’t here yet in Indiana in quite the same way. I see brown, gray skies, with hints of green poking their way out to see if it warm enough yet.
Well, the view from my window at this time of year is not so pretty yet: it is still cold and not green in Michigan. So right now I am looking at a lot of naked trees and brown grass. But, hopefully, in a couple of weeks everything will start to turn light green.
I had great expectations of a sunny day but instead it’s raining and gray…and we have a bat stuck in our living room!!! The grass has a promise of green and I heard the weather will get better over the weekend. Fingers crossed!!
holy cow!! this combination would be absolutely PERFECT for the quilt i’m designing right now. the fabrics i’ve collected so far are all in the soft grey-greens and aquas with touches of other colors. i would love to win this set and then i could start working on my quilt.
the view from my sewing room window is becoming greener by the day. my marigolds, bluebonnets and variety of other pretty flowers are starting to grow big and strong, as well as colorful. soon, i’ll add my seedlings to the mix. my trees are budding with new leaves and soon the big crepe myrtle will be green again.
Today the view out my window is a bizarre sight; the county dog catcher and several neighbors are chasing a little lost dog around, trying to catch it. Someone is waving a piece of b ologna at the poor little guy! If I thought that another squacking, excited woman would make a difference, I would go help, but… . Absolutely nothing to do with sewing, huh?
My view is definitely not one to be inspiration for beautiful fabrics, but the sound of my view would of neighborhood kids laughing….
Outside my window there is a very very old wisteria with a large and gnarled trunk getting ready to blossom, the buds are swelling and there is hope in the air.
Living in Montreal, Québec, Canada, it’s not quite spring yet. The snow is gone but the mud isn’t and nothing is blooming yet. So I must tell you about what i’ll see from my window in a couple weeks from now because this is much more interesting. I’ll have flowers and tall grass and ferns.
The dafodills will bloom ans the irises will grow back again. Thanks for giving me this moment of hope and excitement thinking about the beautiful mornings to come.
I love her blog and I love this fabric pack! I am not so lucky yet this year. We still have some snow in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. But I am hoping for a warm up soon!
Love Alicia Paulson! Such a gifted writer, artist and crafter. The view from my window is a bald cypress tree, greeting spring with new greenery. It’s like a playland for the squirrels and birds. My family and I enjoy watching them all day long from the living room window. Happy Spring!
I live outside of Seattle, so my view is green, with buds and crocuses…but also rain, rain, rain. And then…more rain
What a lovely idea! Out my window I see grey skies, but I also see a few yellow daffodils emerging from winter hibernation here in chilly Chicago. They pop against the backdrop of neo-Gothic architecture on my university’s campus.
What great colors! I love the combo!!!
My view this morning is out my office window. It’s sunny, the palm trees are gorgeous, grass is green with a few students walking across the quad. Quite a peaceful view today. I work at a university.
Although the lawns are now green and the buds are appearing on the trees, snow is dancing down among the branches and settling in the blades of grass. But the forecast calls for 65 on Monday, so there is hope! Come on SPRING!
I wish I could say that I am looking at green grass and budding trees out my window, but I’m afraid right now I am looking at a whole lot of snow. Yup, it’s been snowing all week and it’s not done yet. At least it’s warmer out and seems to be melting quickly.
The view from my window is blue sky with a bit of clouds towards the north…hoping for rain…even a sprinkle…as we haven’t had any in about 6 weeks! And the fabrics are so gorgeous!!!
The FQ pack looks wonderful. It’s a grey, rainy day here in Michigan, but I can see the mulberry tree outside the window and, if I squint, some pretty blue wildflowers peeking through the groundcover.
Simply gorgeous!
The view from my window this time a year… hmm…Well, I see Spring trying to break through all the clouds and all the trees and plants around the windows are trying to bloom! The sun wants to shine so bad today(I can just tell) and it’s really trying to but the weather is a little sad! Lots of grey in the sky. I see lots of cars going by, but that is a year-round thing (I work in a busy area downtown). Everyone’s hustling and bustling to get to where they are going! I can also see colorful balloons blowing in the wind across the street at the car dealership as they get ready for their “Spring Sale” and it adds a lot of much needed color to the view.
The view from my window is a new swingset with my 2 year old little boy going down the slide with our yellow lab puppy laying in the green green under a shady tree nearby. Hot Pink Azalea’s line the fence behind the swingset and the sun shines through the branches of the two huge trees. A perfect spring day watching the innocense of childhood through my kitchen window, brings back memories of my own sweet childhood!
At work I get to sit next to a window. The view this time of year is usually either grey and rainy or bright sunshine with wind. I get to see some really cool architecture in the surrounding buildings. At home I see buds finally forming and the grass changing from the death of winter to the lively green of spring. I don’t have many other plants within my view from the window, but I know they are out there also forming buds preparing to bloom in a few weeks
The view from my work window (I’m so lucky to have a window to look out of during the day) is the bridge to go home from work–ha!. Right now it’s a cloudy sky, with the wind blowing through the pine trees.
Even though rain and snow and grey is in abundance, shining through are the daffodils, crocus, spring greens, and even “popcorn popping on the apricot tree”. A beautiful sight for winter tired eyes.
Outside my window, I can see the sun starting to wind its way behind the house opposite. Alhough cars keep driving by there aren’t any parked up today because most of the students that live in this area have gone home and taken their cars with them. The bush in front of my house is starting to get overgrown and is making interesting shad patterns on the lace curtains,which thought they fuzzify my view make it looks slightly more elusive!
The current view from my window is green grass being slowly covered with heavy, wet spring snow falling from dark gray clouds hanging low in the sky.
What a glorious giveaway!
Where I spend most of my day, I don’t even have a window. My views are all the wonderful new spring fabrics and projects that internet-land create. The rest of my free time is spent outdoors. Weather these days is unpredictable. Thunderstorms and hail one day; the next is 75, sunny, and no cloud in site. Those are the days I try to leave a little early!
Well, I am at work so the view out my window is a parking lot! Luckily, besides the pollen dusted cars (I am in Atlanta too) I can also see the Dogwoods blooming, the rose bushes waking up and the wrens hopping about the ground looking to see what the rain has coaxed to the surface.
I see green and a funny corgi running around!
It’s gray and raining in Philly today (contrary to TV’s beliefs) and the occasional burst of thunder is hitting my ears. I’d like to be at home hand tying a quilt and watching a movie!
I love this pack!! The view from my window – mostly rainy, but when the sun does peek through I see colours starting to creep their way into my world. Lots of green, but a little bit of blue, some vibrant purple, and some deep pink/red hiding out near the ground. I also see many people out, a nice change from winter, and many many dogs! This of course pleases my little Westie who’s constantly looking for a playmate. I see growth and life!
The view from my window is a drizzly, breezy overcast day, which isn’t unusual for this time of year near the So Cal coast.
This is my favorite time of year to look out my window. I live in an apartment complex, and most of the year I have to stare at the ugly tan side of the mailbox building. Only in the spring do I get to look out my window and see the bright yellow forsythia bush that has suddenly exploded with colorful blooms.
Grey skies, rain droplets forming into pools of water, battering my delicate yellow and red tulips and the pink, purple, and white hyacinths. Robins bobbing in the soggy grass, looking for worms. Alicia’s colors are beautiful!
sunshine and clouds of white blossom, my neighbour’s daffodils and primroses and the first tulips just coming out. It’s a lovely day here in London, so thank you for making me notice!
The view from my window is gray skies, green grass and chickadees taking cover under my japanese maple and eating from the feeder I put out for them.
Oh I love those birds!
The Bradford pears have lost almost all their blossoms but the cherry tree is still in bloom. A few fat bees hit the window in their search of nectar. The grass needs cutting and the beds need weeding. Another day for that…
Bluish grayish skies with a little bit of umber and pink….
I just moved into a new apartment and there’s this great window over the kitchen sink. From it I can see the flowering potatoe vine that grows up the patio wall. I open it when I’m cooking and the wind blows the simple white curtains in a dance. It’s just home-y to me.
Daffodils and grape hyacinth and forsything and quince. Heaven!
The view from my window seems tenative this spring. I live in the Columbia River Gorge and winter has been relentless. I have the beautiful green of the trees and moss that are always present. There is the gorgeous gray of the bark of alder trees and the brown of the other trees that have yet to bloom/leaf out. Then there are the great pops of yellow and purple that are the daffodils and crocus. Maybe instead of tenative I should say hopeful!
Miss Posie, as always, has an unerring eye for combining fabrics! Beautiful job.
How about some show and tell? Our windows look out on some trees, and our front balcony shows off my favorite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noirbettie/3409047449/
The view is of newly planted garden in my backyard. A neglected pool, and a well used swing set. Plus the buzz of kids going in and out. The joy of homeschooling and living in the south allows the kids to do math or reading outside.
Little fluttering helicopter blades are falling from our big maple tree, seeking to claim a stake in my flower beds. The thick emerald blades of the day lily’s are beginning to unfurl more and more each day and the hydrangeas are just beginning to replace last year’s brown remnants with fresh bright green leaves. The bright violas and daffodils are the only break of color yet in a sea of spring green.
Right now my windows are wide open to let in the spectacular blue skies and cool breeze. I’m gazing at the wildflower meadow my husband created … and a patch of real Texas bluebonnets. Ah, spring!
Overcast sky, green trees and birds chirping. Spring must be here!
Sunny and warm here–and a pair of mourning doves are making a nest on our backyard trellis.
You never know this time of year in Chicago. But the word that comes to mind is neutral. The skies are gray/yellow/white with a churning wind that pushes the clouds slowly across the sky. The sun tries to break through every once in a while. Tree trunks are shiny and dark like melted chocolate in a mold, but the branches are still naked, maybe a bud here or there to keep you optimistic. It’s good time of year to be inside, looking out the window frankly. But in a few weeks, it’ll be gorgeous
The view from my room is of my neighbor’s brownstone, built in the mid 1800’s. In front of it is an old tree that is covered in pink flowers. Behind on ornate iron gate, is a large concrete urn with dozens of daffodils. Spring has sprung!
The green GREEN grass is freshly mowed and the rain really made everything really GREEN!
Green is my favorite color and I love the fabrics!
I’m sitting at my computer looking out on our side yard in NC. There are both white and yellow daffodils blooming, ivy growing down the wall, rhododendrums green and silent still, and off to the side the forsythia are bright yellow and blooming. There’s a bird bath nestled amid the trees and we’ve had cardinals returning home, a bright bluejay, some little chickadees, and a few robins. It’s a great place to browsing sewing blogs and planning that next project.
I hope I can win! I love reading Alicia’s blog. I live in Florida so the view from my window right now is very bright and sunny. I live on the 6th floor in a downtown apt building so all I see are other buildings, cars, and palm trees mostly.
I live in Nova Scotia and the view this morning is much like any place on the coast. Some fog, a few rain drops and the occasional bit of green peeking out of the brown leaves on the ground.
The brook is busy babbling over rocks, tree limbs and the remains of a plank bridge some children made years ago.
Mr and Mrs Duck are busy bobbing up and down in the water, here a tail, there a tail, foraging for food. I hope they soon settle down and build their nest we can get ducklings to look at.
Eventually it will warm up and all will be green.
From my window
I am at work right now watching it sprinkle! I like the white noise it creates on the roof. This is good napping weather, if I could only crawl inder my desk…. oh well, the phone would wake me up anyway!
Out my window it looks pretty much exactly like Alicia’s fat quarter pack. Gray. But promising if you just keep looking. LOVE that FQ pack!!!
Southern California so the view from my window is bright and sunny.
Camellia bushes are in bloom. Roses are all budding.
Portland is my hometown, and though I miss the greenness of it, I find it hard to adjust to cloudy skies.
I love those fabrics (and Alicia’s blog)! I only wish my window view was so cheerful. I spend a lot of time in my office, which luckily has a really tall window – but the view is mostly filled by the tan brick building across the street which houses some big turbines and thermodynamics researchers. This time of year in Boston it’s very rainy and gray… so I’ve filled my windowsill with a bunch of potted plants to add a little color – money tree, orchid, bamboo, cacti, and an easter lily about to bloom!
it’s snowing buckets right now! covering up the daffodils that have been my view until this week…I’m so ready for spring and my day lily’s.
Alicia’s fabrics are beautiful and I love her blog. Here in S.W. Ontario, we have lots of rain- but that’s a good thing! The grass is greening and the daffodils are up about 6″.
The Hague, Netherlands: Looking outside through my windows, I see the trees still brown and empty, but with a slight wave of green, spring is coming. When I open my window, I can smell the scent of spring and hear the birds. I have to wait a little longer till the view will be total green from all the trees.
My view today is a very overcast one, but yesterday was gorgeous, lots of sunshine, the grass is starting to green again and there are the beginnings of new spring flowers and buds.
Those are so beautiful! I’d love to win a pack.
I really, REALLY like the print with the birds on it.
I love these FQ’s!
The view from my window today is rather rainy, but April showers bring May flowers!!
At least I get to look out on to my beautiful (or at least it will be soon!) garden.
Usually at this time of year, I can see cherry blossoms in the park across the street from us; this year it’s been weirdly cold (it snowed on April Fool’s Day – most unusual for this part of the West Coast) so it’s just green grass and mud and some trees just starting to bud. Oh and four lanes of traffic between us and the park, of course!
My view is of a rainy, foggy, misty Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, and Boston Harbor. I know I’m outnumbered, but I really love the rain!
From my window right now, I stare out at a variety of palms, mangroves and the Caribbean Sea. The treat for today specifically is that there is an iguana perched in the mangroves. Treat for sure.
I love Alicia. If I were to design a fat quarter pack with the same inspiration it would be pretty dull. Out side my window I see a snowy field, bare birch trees and wooden garbage box. I want to move to Portland.
I can see parking lots, parking garages, empty lots, warehouses, the freeway, and utility towers. I’d rather look at the fabric pack full of green and blue and pink!
I’m at work, procrastinating a bit … looking out the window of my office, I see a damp roof, purple and slate grey tiles, and in the distance, a patch of green lawn with undergrads walking to class, trying to balance cups of coffee and umbrellas.
thanks!
I love springtime. Those grey, cloudy, rainy days that make the house feel so cozy. Outside my window I can see about a dozen robins flying about gathering bits and bobs for their nests.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter in this give away! Happy Spring from Canada!
The view from my office window can be beautiful this time of year despite the boarded up building next door. It’s an old building and I love old buildings so the boarded up state is nice to me. The building beyond it has a gold dome so that’s what I see above it – quite beautiful. The contrast of the gold with a beautiful blue sky is wonderful. Today, unfortunately, it’s cloudy and dreary and the old stone of both buildings is blending in with the gray sky. We desperately need some sun.
What beautiful fabric!
Southern California weather is unpredictible this time of year. The weather can be overcast and cool then turn to 85 degrees within a day or so. You never know what you’re gonna see when you look outside my window, but finally… Spring is upon us!
I live and work in the city (Chicago) so my view is of buildings are far as the eye can see.
The view out my window is usually bright and sunny, but today is overcast and we might get some rain (but I doubt it). I have a cute robellini palm tree outside of my window, and I can see some of the gardenias that line the front walk way.
The view out my window is pretty crummy, actually. First of all, there is a nasty glare during the summer months so the facilities folks “helpfully” put up this filmy stuff that means I can’t see much of anything. Plus they left bubbles in it and the corner is peeling up. If I get really close and squint, I can see a building across the way with a green house on top. There is snow coming down today. Yep. Even in April. Still snow.
Unfortunately, the view from my window (ohhhh so far away from my cubicle) is gray, gray, gray.
I like the view out my small kitchen window, past a celery-smelling plant, to a long sidewalk flanked by apartments and shrubs. Sometimes I see neighbors urging their dogs to walk or shifting their bundles as they try to unlock their front doors. The window is higher than head level, so I often see people and hear snatches of their conversations without them seeing me, though I sometimes smile their way.
The view from my south eastern Virginia window is of wonderful fun snow. But not the cold kind! Yesterday’s wind/rain storm blew all the dogwood blooms in swirls around town. It looks like a snow fall. Beautiful. And, okay, so the pollen count is off the charts high and everybody’s sneezing. Let Spring Begin!
Today in PA it is raining so hard that I can’t really see out my windows as the downspouts can’t handle all of it and they are overflowing! April showers bring May flowers!
Cathy
The view from my window right now would be a cardinal eating at my birdfeeder.
Hmmm, have to stand up and peer over my cubicle wall… rain. A spring thunderstorm, to be specific. I hope the cherry blossoms don’t fall off the trees! (I’m in Philadelphia)
We have a cherry tree in its full blossoming glory in the backyard framed by the dark branches of many other trees waiting patiently for leaves to sprout…I cannot WAIT for spring to really get rolling here in MD.
This week has been cold and gray and rainy but today the clouds have disappeared and the sky is a deep blue. The trees are just starting to show tiny baby leaves and my red tulips are budding. Too bad it’s supposed to rain again all weekend.
The selections are beautiful together. I especially like the polka dots with birds and the one beside it with the teal flowers. So refreshing!
It just rained here in Maryland. The grass is sparkling with water droplets and the sky is the most amazing blue. The sun is shining extra hard to make up for such a dreary, gray morning.
The view from my window right now is gray and dreary! I wish winter would be over and spring would finally arrive. The thing I love about my view is the train that passes each day at 9:00 and at 3:30. Always a short train, but still lovely to look at and admire.
My view from the window while at the computer is a fence covered with blooming yellow Carolina Jasmine, patches of green grass throughout the yard and a sweet gum tree with new budding leaves. There are little birds and squirrels on the ground and in the trees! Sure signs that spring is finally here!
Such a pretty collection!
The view out my window is of a dreary gray and rainy day – one that is best appreciated from inside the house, under a handmade quilt, sipping a cup of tea
Today the view from our window has been rain. Rain has been pouring down like crazy and it was so dark I could not read the paper in front of me! The trees haven’t begun to bud yet but hopefully soon:)
The view from my window here in Williamsburg, Virginia, is really starting to be pretty. The green grass is back and the trees have little green buds. It’s a nice cloudy, windy day, and with the windows open, the breeze is helping air out our apartment, clearing out winter and making way for SPRING!
By the way, I LOVE Alicia Paulson! What a great giveaway!
Right now, the view from our window is spring! Our fruit trees have leafed out, and the cherry is in bloom. Now if only the wind would simmer down so we could spend time out there.
Are you KIDDING? THE Alicia Paulson? Posie gets Cozy Alicia Paulson? Um, YES, please enter me. These are absolutely adorable, and since I already have a yard of that darling pink polka dot, this would be a great addition to my spring quilting projects! THANK YOU!
It’s very green outside.
The view from my window is sprucing up, that’s for sure. For five years we’ve looked at a dingy grey fence, about ten feet worth of brick and dirt, and now finally that’s all changing. The girls are getting older (6 and 3), so they (and I guess my husband helped a little) stained the back fence with a nice cedar color, we’re lining the dirt to put in some Southwest Cobble pebbles, and adding some large planters. My peonies are budding after three years, the hydrangea is coming back, and I have miniature roses starting to bloom. Yay, spring!
Right now the sun is brilliant and the weather is nice before the afternoon heat arrives in my spot of Texas. If I walk down the block I get a view of Mexico which is not reassuring during these turbulent times on the border.
Oh, love it – everything she touches is gold! It’s grey, and damp, but the buds on the trees are just about ready to bust. I can’t wait!!
Thhe view from my window right now is spring in Texas. All of the trees are leafed out and the azaleas are at the end of their blooming season. Everything is pretty and green and the sky is a wonderful blue today.
I look out my kitchen window every morning to check the temperature on the themometer that I received for Christmas. Spring in Tennessee is beautiful but fickle. One day it is 70 degrees and the next 40 degrees. I see dogwood trees, green grass, daffodiles and lots of purple weed in our yard that need cut. Rain and more rain – we need it…Tornadoes – we don’t need them.
Ooh. . . I love those fabrics. My view today is grey and dreary, but the promise of spring is definitely there in the little bits of green I see peeking up in my flowerbeds.
We’re still getting frost almost every night here in Minnesota, but the ducks have moved back into the pond outside the window, so we can watch them and speculate about when the ice will be completely gone.
The view from my window is gray and rainy. The red brick paving of my road is splotched with mud and puddles, but across the street I see daffodils and the breeze flowing through my window smells like spring.
From my cubicle, I can see a small sliver of a window. Right now there is sun, blue skies with puffy white clouds, and wind. Yes, lots of spring wind that is blowing the pine tree around. Isn’t it strange that you can’t actually “see” wind but only the effects of wind?
The fabrics are beautiful! I would be overjoyed to win! So Pretty!
Today, southern Ontario is getting a soaking from the sky! It has not let up all day, but I know that in a couple of weeks time, greens and yellows will burst through the wet dreariness that I see out my window today. From my little corner at work, I see puddles and raindrops and grey skies…and several people running from their cars to their buildings!!
The view from my window today is cloudy and wet but the Spring rain has really intensified the green grass. Trees are just starting to bud and my neighbor’s flowering trees are in full bloom. Just gorgeous! Daffodils are open and glorious. If I were to choose from swatches today and they were to match my view, there would have to be lots of grass green and bright yellow. Don’t you just love spring?
I have been a loyal follower of Alicia’s blog for a long time. She is so talented. I love her mix of fabrics. She has a real flair for pairing more modern prints with traditional “calico” types.
Ok.. I wish my view from my window …was a lot better than it is now…
) I so long for SPRING!! 
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Snow , snow and some more snow… still 50 cm of snow…I wish for the soft greens to come..and all the spring flowers… then my view from my window ..would look much nicer…
I love the fabrics!! and your Blog for that matter. I hope I win I could use some fabric… my stash has dwindled!
~LuLu
The view outside my window has been the subject of timeless music and poetry, praised for its clear, unchanging color and year-round good weather. If you’re thinking it’s the Carolina blue sky, you’re right! And I get the additional satisfaction of seeing it all over the UNC campus. There really is something idyllic about the ratio of red brick, green trees and grass, and that sky… Thanks for giving me an excuse to pause and reflect!
Well I live in the horribly hot and disgusting Phoenix, AZ so when I look out my window all I see is rocks, pavement, and some sad little desert plants. How I long for the Rocky Mountains again!
The view from my window is yellow tulips and a dogwood tree. Also, there is phlox and one lone red tulip which makes for a colorful beginning to my day.
Rain and rain and a parking lot,
Oh how much more cheerful than that would a quilt in these be!
I love this fabric pack! Alicia’s blog post yesterday made me miss the soggy springtime of the northwest. As I look out my window today in the midwest and it’s bright, clear and cold. Nothing on the trees yet, but the grass is getting greener!
portland is my home town too – i wish that was what i was looking at outside my window. instead i’m looking at bright blue sky and a blooming tree… not too bad, but its not home!
In Southern Ohio, the pear trees are blooming on both sides of our street. Our azeleas erupted into fuschia blooms this week. Yesterday I looked out and saw a clear blue sky. Today I see grey with rain drops hanging from the bushes. It’s officially spring here.
From my window today there’s a river that runs through my backyard….because we’ve had so much rain. But my favorite thing is the dogwoods that are in bloom. As I look into the “woods” that sourround my house I see little bits of white floating amongst the tree trunks. It excites me — spring is coming!!
OOh, what pretty fabrics!
The view from my window right now shows trees and bushes just beginning to bud. After a long and snowy winter, I’m more than ready for spring!
It’s *supposed* to be spring in Massachusetts, but it’s rainy and foggy and feels like walking around in a cloud.
The view from my windows is not that exciting. I live next to the parking lot. So I see a lot of cars, with green pollen on them, and on the far side, some dying grass and pine trees. (How I wish we had a yard.)
There are rainbow-colored splotches on my driveway from the soap bubbles my girls blew before lunch. The lawn–now finally free of snow–is covered in the dead leaves we didn’t have time to rake in fall, plus a few buttons and jingle bells from a melted snowman. The shrub beds are twiggy and in need of fresh mulch, but in the corner there is a glorious patch of orange and lavender crocuses. They were worth the long wait.
Right now I am looking at a huge brilliantly crimson double blossom hibiscus. The leaves are absolutely fluorescent from the rain we’ve been having this past week. Obvio;usly I live in a very warm place – south Florida but we still have a spring of sorts. The winter is very dry here and when the rains start in April, all the plants explode with new growth.
Today is very sunny and hot. First I see eight car lanes, then a green dry river (It’s green because of all the trees that grow there), then six more lanes, then a big green mountain leading up to light blue skies.
love Alicia’s blog – these bits of spring are so beautiful. i am looking outside at snow on the ground and more snow falling. waiting none-too-patiently for spring!
I love Alicia’s style, quite evident here in her pack. All the years I worked in a quilt shop, making packs was one of my favorite things, well after all the amazing people I have met. Out my window today is the blue California sky, the ruby red of my hummingbird feeder, the spring green oak leaves of my neighbors tree, the weathered wood fence and its all bathed in sunshine. I couldn’t be happier!
My view is of spring flowers trying to poke their little heads out–despite the fact that we continue to have cold winter weather, including snow!
my favorite thing to watch out my window is my kids playing in the backyard – it’s especially nice when they’re surrounded by the budding spring!
I live on the southwest side of chicago so the view out my window is a row of tightly packed brick houses, but…. if I sit down at my dining room table, my view is restricted to the redbud tree just outside the window whose buds are beginning to swell. Gives me hope that spring color will soon be here!
Saw her pack on Alicia’s blog. Love it and it does remind me of Oregon, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Especially since the view out my window is two feet of snow, with more on the way, this spring inspriation is really needed.
the branches are cinnamon colored and filled with flitting little juncos. I think they are residents that hatched from a nest in our hanging basket of impatiens last summer. Grey trunks of the birch are layered behind that, and bright bits of green further on from the spring grass. A crow just flew through the pale milky wash of sky.
I work in Salt Lake City. This morning it is snowing, but not sticking. As I walked from the bus stop, there were dozens of earthworms on the sidewalk, stretched out in lines straighter than worms should be. Where were they headed, straining their bodies out to cross the dangerous concrete? Don’t they know that the other side is all mushy lawn, and that worms from there are also refugees from sog, fleeing to the other side? I felt I ought to hand carry each one to the grassy patch on that appeared less wet, but I couldn’t tell head from tail and didn’t want to deposit them back in the sodden homeland they were escaping from. April is for worm exodus.
From my window, on a clear day, you can see the outline of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s just beautiful. I love the windmills I see everyday as well.
alas, i have no window in my office. I’ve turned my computer desktop into a window, with a lovely Marimekko wallpaper of a beech tree and distant blue hills. I think it even rivals having a real window onto chilly, flat South Bend, Indiana
Our windows overlook onto a community courtyard. We live in Graduate Student Family Housing at a large university, and all of the apartments center around these great courtyards. The courtyard right now is full of a mixture of grass (finally visible after the long winter) and glorious mud- to be used in the play of the many children living here. Nesting in and around the large rhododendrons, the daffodils are just about to bloom. The crocuses have all been lovingly picked and delivered to mamas all around. We have a beautiful mature maple tree that is just beginning to hint at budding leaves. And of course, there’s all the children’s playthings strewn about. I love the view!
We recently moved to a small lovely old town in Ohio. The view from my front door of my old house was of a beat up house full of thugs that shot my neighbors. Contrast to that the wonderful view I have now from my front porch: To the left – a cute little Cape Cod that houses our good friends and a perfect playmate for my 5 year old son. To the right – a lovely brick cottage that is home to a dear retired couple who spend hours every day tending to their gorgeous landscaping. And, across the street – the most fantastic park that I have ever seen. I LOVE MY VIEW!
I wish my view were as pretty as Alicia! We got three inches of snow night before last, so there are still patches of snow all over the ground and everything’s very drippy. Come on, crocuses! You can do it!
Well, it is not raining here in Vancouver, BC. It is cloudy, but that just makes the colours of the spring flowers pop even more. The cherry blossoms are finally beginning to come out, the daffodils are delightful, and the crocuses are charming. Looking out over the ocean, I can see signs that the rain will not hold off for very long though. Oh well. Welcome to spring!
In Northern Indiana, the view out my window is gray, cloudy and wet but the grass is finally green and there are buds on the trees! Woo hoo!
I have a fabulous view of Times Square in NYC these days – although the rain today is making the view pretty gray. Flashing lights, every color under the sun and people, people, people.
What a great fat quarter pack!
Well, the view from my window is rainy and windy today, with hints of spring coming. Green buds on the trees and our daffodils blooming; it’s not going to last too long however, we expect snow next week!
I’m no where near a window, but if I lean back in my chair & look down the hall, I can see a tree truck, reflecting bright, post-thunderstorm sun. There are a few branch tips, all bare, but I know they will have leaves by next week.
Yesterday’s view was rain, today is warm and sunny, tomorrow is cool and sunny. Thus is the pattern of Spring here in the south. I love the idea of having mixed FQ packs!
Well, I hope that this giveaway is a random drawing, and not judged by the best view or description thereof…..I’m sure a poet could render a verse eliciting the beauty or even pathos of the scene I behold, but alas I am not a poet. My view is cold and rainy and richer in its promise than in its actual rendering. We haven’t yet reached the time of year where the colors are saturated on an overcast day. Where the maple buds are scarlet and chartreuse, where the fresh grass looks good enough to eat, and a blue jay and a pair of cardinals at the feeder take your breath away and rivet your gaze. The buds on the shrubs and trees are still tight and contracted against the cruel cold. The glimmers of warmth from the sun have coaxed only the earliest of the bulbs to venture tender shoots forth, while old dirty snow stubbornly stays. No laughing daffodils yet, no sylvan forsythian brilliance. Even the silver and white bark of the birch looks dull, bland, not yet awakened. The flow of life will come with warmth, when the sun kisses awake the very ground on which we stumble in our thick and heavy boots, with our thick and heavy socks. Our time is coming, but it isn’t here. Yet.
Wendy
http://www.wendysbees.blogspot.com
Outside my window on Galveston Island, I see palm trees-with fronds still a bit shriveled from Hurricane Ike.
The bay is striped today, with areas of beautiful deep blue, next to areas of dark grey; joining on the horizion with a sky that’s the closest I’ve seen to Carolina blue since I left the east coast.
These fabrics are just beautiful! Living in Florida, we usually breeze right past spring and head straight into summer. This week we have had some blustery winds and today I am welcoming some much needed rain out my sewing room window. I am sure my children, who are about to start spring break, hope for sun all next week.
The view from my window? Now? Well, I don’t have a window at work
At home, the view is not too much better – April is a time of melting snow, deep puddles, and all the piles of gravel lining the road, leftover from winter sanding. Spring in these northern parts doesn’t really get going until late May. I’d love to win this fat quarter pack to remind me what spring *can* be like!
There are two windoes that I can see out of right now. One faces east, the other west. Out of the east window I see sun and springtime. Flowers are basking in the warmth. The east window tells a different story. There are still patches of snow on the ground, in the places that are hard for the sun to reach. I can see grey clouds gathering. There will be a thunderstorm later on this evening. I think I will stick to looking out my west window for now, and enjoy the little bits of spring while I can.
I am lucky enought to have a desk right by a window at work. I am in a downtown San Diego high rise so I have a beautiful view of Balboa Park, home of the world famous San Diego zoo. There are actually clouds in the sky this morning – unusual for here.
my view is similar to the portland view, as i am in springfield/eugene. our neighbor has a great yard with lots of flowering fruit trees and so much more. he is an older gentleman and all of his neighbors help him top keep his yard maintained and help with the harvest. plum, fig, apple, cherry and currant all make it very pretty from our kitchen window!
I love looking out the window this time of year and finding blossoms popping up. Our little cherry tree is gorgeous. We’re just starting to see buds on the apple tree. I’m still waiting for the tulips and the neighbor’s dogwood blooms. I love this time of year in Oregon!
The view from my window this time of year: Sunny skies and rain at the same time. Budding trees, greener grass. The dark clouds of a budding thunderstorm. People dressed in shorts one hour and in winter coats the next. Lovely, fresh, unpredictable.
I am sad to report that my view is gray and snowy. Yes, that’s right. It’s still snowing in my part of the country. I would love some fresh fat quarters to keep my eyes away from the view!
A silvery bay on a cloudy day. Quiet and calm. Kind of like the fat quarter pack!
rt now, i see redbud trees blooming!
My daytime view overlooks Historic Philadelphia – namely The Liberty Bell, Independence Center and a park along the sidelines. It’s really a great view and is so peaceful since the skyline in my part of the city is mostly unobstructed. Great plus – I can watch the tourists below and decide whether I should wear a jacket, shawl or head out sans coverup in this strange Spring weather we’ve been having.
My view: brown turning to green, sun, rain, and the bulbs peeping out of the ground…and our first spring flower!
Hmmm, the view from my window. Well, as Pittsburgh is pretty tight living quarters, the view from all of my windows is house after house. But, let’s look at the bright side – the houses are all different colors and can be quite inspiring if you really try hard! A tall green house, looking like a tall blade of grass. A red-orange house with a black door that reminds me of a poppy. A yellow house that imitates the sun – even when the sun isn’t shining. And a white house that is like clean sheets waving in the breeze. See? My view is great!
What a great idea for a fat quarter pack. The view outside my NH window right now is gray and dirty snow. Not a very nice combination for a fat quarter pack! Soon the wonderful spring greens will hopefully show up. Would love to win Alicia’s pack.
I am positively drooling over the blooming plum trees and the lavender/gray/periwinkle/white print from Twiggy (been wanting that for awhile now)!!! Beautiful collection of prints!
Outside my window, there is one songbird that has been singing away every morning this week.
The dogwood trees are getting ready to boom, though not quite there yet. When they do, they’re a lovely colour, a sort of creamy white with a drop of apple green.
My view from my daylight basement at the moment is of a tree in my neighbor’s yard. It’s a beautiful full pine tree, and I can see the gorgeous sky above as well. This time of year the air outside is so crisp and clean when it is sunny. On overcast days, it makes me want to retreat upstairs to my sewing room to work on my various projects.
Our house is situated in a little woody patch, over a hole, so that if you walk out into our front porch, you’re standing in the trees. This means we have lots of little overhanging green bits and flowers — right now the North Carolina dogwoods are coming into bloom and we’re starting to get more feathered visitors. Out the window I can see little yellow finches and titmouses and occasionally a big red-headed woodpecker. I can also see my herb garden starting to spring back, and the echnacea is coming up. Today is really windy, and the first sunny day we’ve had this week, so it’s like nature is dancing for me and the cat.
I love reading Alicia’s blog for the inspiration, so I hopped on over! Currently, out of my window, I can see the tree that shades our small patio and the apt parking lot. Then, because we are at the top of a hill, I can see the park that we take the dog for walks in as well as the, um, well, the city dump beyond that. If you can ignore the dump, it’s a pretty great view.
The view from my window right now is ugly – the back of an office building! Soon I’ll be heading home though, and will sit down in my living room and look at the greenery outside, flowering trees and calla lilies in the neighbours’ gardens (I live on the 3rd floor so I don’t have one of my own!)
i would love to win one! thanks!
One little clump of crocuses (croci?), and lots and lots of daffodil and tulip leaves, all pushing up through old crusty snow mounds. Go, flowers, go!
I’d love to win Fat Quarters that would be so much fun!
Today my backyard is finally showing signs of life. There are buds on all the trees and lots of green shoots poking up through the dirt. Several brown rabbits have been wandering through to take advantage of the sprouting grass buffet. Lots of birds are stopping to rest on the branches as they collect sticks and dried grass to make their nests. But, this is Chicago and the furnace clicks on to remind me that Spring is running a little late!
I’m in uptown Toronto at work and outside is a very busy interesection. But at least I have a window. It’s raining and the sky is a lovely gray with a tinge of blue. But in my mind’s eye, I’m at home looking into my just greening backyard and a darling little tricoloured Sheltie has frolicked into view.
I’m live in Vancouver, WA but am up in Victoria BC today for Spring Break (inspired by Alicia’s recent trip) and the view from outside our hotel window looks very much like that. One of my goals when I get back is to start my first little quilt and this would be perfect.
The bright sunshine is streaming in from a cold sky; leafless tress gently move to a breeze; little bits of green are peaking through the earth. A beautiful day to tidy up the house and hanging with two tiny boys. I’m visiting from Posie Gets Cozy. Love the fabrics!
Visiting Alicia’s Spring walk post was a highlight of my day and the best view of Spring I can hope for… our view is of a neglected tropical themed garden that our landlord insists on over-watering. I think I should cheer myself with some new fabric!!
The view from my balcony window is pretty bleak. Right now you can see the “back yard” (we are in an apartment complex) which is still brown, though thanks to the snow last week (and the tremendous rain fall) it is starting to turn green.
We did have one tree right in front of our apartment, but it came down in the ice storm the year before last so we have a clear shot into the back yards in the neighborhood next to us. The closest neighbor has started getting his back yard ready to set up a pool (I really don’t know why they would go through the trouble of setting it up and taking it down every year, but they do.
Oh an there are some woods about a football field’s length away from our balcony. The trees there are starting to turn green.
Anyway, as you can imagine there really isn’t much to look at, but in the evenings (since our apartment faces west) we do get some beautiful sunset!
P.S. I’m in Oklahoma
Here in beautiful Arizona, I see blue, blue sky, palo verde trees with their grayish green trunks and branches, and they’re now sporting yellow blossoms, and as a background there’s a shock of bouganvillia bushes with their super-bright fucshia/magenta colored blossons. How’s that for a great color pallet?
The view out my window this morning on the Oregon coast is a mix of bright spring sunshine, green grass, and dark gray clouds looming on the horizon. I can’t see them, but I know there are some bright daffodils bobbing their heads in the morning breeze. Just enough color and light to give me hope that spring is indeed almost sprung!
Outside my window it is cloudy, chilly, and windy. The grass has greened up, and some trees and daffodils are blooming. I love the fabric selection!
I actually moved to Wenatchee, WA, from Vancouver, WA last February. So, as I say to my family in the Portland area constantly these days… HAHA! I have sunshine, glorious, slightly warm with a hint of cool, sunny sunny sunshine out my window. The wildflowers, the wheatfields and blue sky, with puffy white clouds is my view.
I’m so pleased with it, I just can’t help but rub it in. 
Unfortunately I live in the city and if I look out my window right now it is of telephone and cable wires running across an alley… Last week though, my husband and I stayed in a hotel in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut on the 28th floor and all you could see for miles was trees! Being from the city, that is a very rare view for us! It was quite beautiful.
My view in Iowa today is bright and sunny with a few crocus popping up, even though the grass is still brown and blah. This FQ pack makes me miss Idaho, which I ‘m sure has at least a LITTLE green somewhere, along with the beginnings of soft spring wildflowers. Even though today is lovely with robins and juncos everywhere, we are bracing for a huge snow blizzard Saturday night (9-14 inches!!). Ugh. So I guess I need to include a strip of white into the robin quilt I’m working on now, which is covered in forsythia yellow and dark spring greens! That will have to do while I wait for the weather to indeed become real spring.
The view from my window is of my three lovely hens (Vera, Chuck and Dave, if you’re interested) scratching around in the dirt without a care in the world
There is also a newly constructed raised bed waiting for May when I can plant the seedlings that are currently cluttering every window sill in the house!
My view is of a nice green empty lot next to my office, there are a few trees and usually two squirrels and a fat groundhog who come out to entertain. Today it is a beautiful blue sky and the beginning green of spring, hooray!!
It is a beautiful day in Kansas City. The high should be around 60 and spring has arrived!! We had snow last weekend! Out my window is a baby plum tree showing off her dainty white flowers with a mama peach tree showing off her big pink flowers. They look very happy together. Underneath this pair are a variety of daffodils showing off their sunny faces. Great website.
i LOVE aquas and grays together. These are gorgeous designs!!
Right now I am in a windowless office so there is no view. I will pretend I am home and tell you of that view from the Ozarks of Missouri. I just put out some bird feeders earlier this week and we are starting to get some lovely diners. The one they say to put peanut butter in is getting no takers though. We have many Amish neighbors so I often see buggies going down the road. The trees are starting to bloom and the grass is turning green. Uh oh, there is a fat kitty in the window now blocking my view.
OH…I’m so happy to see the Oregon colors in the fabric! We lived in Portland for ten years and just moved to Idaho this past August. I loved how green Oregon was year-round!
I’ve seen snow, sun breaks, trees a-blowin’ and beautiful signs of spring out our window this morning.
out my window the new greens are beautiful, even though there is not much blooming yet. I love looking out at my rich brown (dirt) garden waiting for the new season, me dreaming about what to plant. Also did I mention the birds? as soon as I can, I crack a window, because I love the tweeting & scurrying about of the birds.
thanks for the fun contests.
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Well, today it’s raining here in the Northeast. But we’ve been having amazing sunshine and warm temperatures, unusual for early April in this area. The birds are singing and the flowers are just starting to open their buds. Spring is absolutely wonderful!
Even though I live in Southern California it’s cloudy and rainy outside my window today. Sometimes even we have “weather”! LOL
loving the spring feel of that fat quarter collection!
As I was driving my kids to daycare (a car window counts, right?) my daughter said, “Mom, why is there snow on those cars?” I said, “What!?” but she was right, there was a little bit of snow on each car roof and windshield wiper. It’s April in Seattle, and it’s not supposed to be snowing. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be affecting the daffodils, hyacinths, flowering cherries, which are all going strong. It’s very gray and wet here today, but pretty.
The view from my window includes our peach tree in the backyard, which a few weeks ago had beautiful pink flowers, which have mostly fallen off. Now it has bright green leaves springing from its branches, and I love the vibrancy of the color. It’s gorgeous!
The view right now – roses already starting to bloom, overgrown grass from a much-needed rainshower earlier this week, and trash cans waiting to be put away. Not too exciting… I’m a bit jealous of those with snow on the ground.
Oh! How beautiful! I wish the view out my window was but it is cold and raining here.
Thanks!
I work all day at my computer in the house so my big picture window lets me pretend I am outdoors. Usually this time of year it’s the azalea bushes getting ready to bloom, my kids playhouse and the clothes line. but today my view is of my husband constructing the new swing set right by my window.
It’s sunny and green today, beautiful blue skies. I’m so glad it’s spring.
Great combinations! I always love to see what other people come up with – very often, it’s something I probably wouldn’t ever have come up with, but end up loving regardless. : )
As for the view out my window? Right now… it’s the blooming tree in our front yard – a beautiful and vibrant fuchsia that happens to be my current favorite color. Perfect timing.
Everyday has been a bit different. One day is gray & rainy and the next is bright & sunny. The balance has brought my crocuses in front up in pretty purples, whites & a bit of yellow!
We live in a beautiful area, so the view from my window is trees, with the very very beginning of spring blossoms!
I am looking out my window to see the butterfly/hummingbird garden I planted beneath our very small tree we planted last year. The garden is a palette of colors, although a little water logged from the huge amounts of rain we received this week. I can’t wait to see butterflies and hummingbirds.
i love watching the trees come back to life… the flowers are bloomin’, the birds are singin’, the deer are trompin’, the squirrels are stealin’… love living in our little woods!
It’s a great time of year in Southern California. There’s scattered clouds, a blue sky and touches of green. The window outside my kitchen looks out to my citrus trees (”the grove”, we call it, with 6 trees) and two grapevines (”the vineyard”). Every one is getting fresh buds and leaves. If I open the windows I will smell sweet flowers from the orange trees. The pool is still, water glassy, as we aren’t using it quite yet and don’t need to turn on the waterfall. The dog is sunning herself, looking up to the sky, eyes closed. The flower beds have expired bulbs that need to be either dug up or planted over with perennials or veggies.
…….and the kids need to clean up the dog poop.
I love posy gets cozy-read every post. The view from my Oregon window today shows the bright green (but very soggy) grass and gray sky. As soon as it gets warm, I’ll be planting color!
I am a huge fan of Alicia’s, so I couldn’t take the chance of you selling out of this wonderful fabric, so I went ahead and ordered it! If you choose my name, pick someone else, I want to be fair!!!!!!
It was rainy this morning in Arlington, VA. Gray and more gray, interspersed with gray. But then the sun muscled her way through and cast her rays down on the gloriousness of the burgeoning spring. I spy green grass and crisp yellow daffodils from my window. Brownish little puddles dot the front lawn and add balance to the wealth of vibrant colors ’spring’ing from the earth. Blue skies with fluffy marshmallow clouds reign supreme over all that is good and colorful.
oh I just love these prints! they remind me of my favourite book!! the view from my window isn’t very entertaining…I can see the main road and mud piles but these prints give me hope that spring will come!!
Oooh…love the fabrics that she chose! Well, it’s still early spring in Maine, and the view from my window is still brown/yellow and leafless. But, it’s wet and soggy and muddy, which is a promising change from 8 feet of snow. And I can see the red-winged blackbirds who returned home about 2 weeks ago hanging out on the telephone line across the street. Also an encouraging sign of spring!
There is no green here yet, the view out my window is grayscale today. The rain has stopped and the fog has rolled in. The saltwater pond is calm and slighter darker. The hills behind are darker still and the houses are gray and white almost disappearing at times in the fog. It is nice to look at. Not a bad day to be inside at work.
The view from my kitchen window is my favorite this time of year. I can look out as I work on dinner or dishes and see my two girls playing on the swingset or in their playhouse. They love to run up to my window and chat. I love to just watch them interact and enjoy the out of doors together.
Oh, her fabrics are beautiful! The windows closest to me are facing my rainy backyard – lots of greens and browns right now.
Right now, the sun is trying valiantly to poke through the rain clouds from the morning. My window is dotted with raindrops and people have closed up their umbrellas, taken off their rain coats and embraced the 60 degree April day. Beautiful if a bit wet!
The view from my window this morning is the swath of emerald-green lawn, with a small bare muddy patch that is sprinkled in yellowy-white corn feed next to an electric blue shallow bucket shining with water that is the same colour as the boulder-grey sky. Taking residence near these items are two ducks. A mallard male, a walking watercolour of grey, brown, emerald green and the pop of his orange feet and yellow bill, and his new wife, mottled brown and écru, with velvety black flipper-feet. A bit farther away, a soft grey squirrel with a rusty-toned tummy is eating sunflower seeds on the feeder, and a scrub jay in a blue-gray coat of feathers is waiting for the ducks to depart so he can have some corn.
Lovely picks by Alicia – love her blog too!!
Spring is definitely blooming on the NC coast. Cherry tree is blooming, blue blue sky, gusty wind blowing the tarp on the pool which we will hopefully be opening soon!!! And, oh my – green grass in much need of a mowing
have a fabulous weekend – my fingers will be crossed for win!
Outside my window here in Edmonton, Canada it is gray and foggy. The streets are wet and the roofs of buildings are still covered in snow… it is not so cold out now so with some luck I will see green outside my window within a few weeks!
I love that these fabrics are tradtional, yet funky mod. they would go great in my mixed up quilt.
The view out of my favorite window, is the top of a tree. The reason it is my favorite, is because it is the window in the nursery. I am able to look out of it from my rocker, and though I spend less time there now than I used to, I love seeing the seasons change through the leaves on that tree and how my babies are growing and changing as well.
The view out of my window in Maryland today looks like I imagine most days to look like in Portland. Gray, rainy, the green grass almost ready for the first mowing of the season. Crocuses and hyacinths popping up. My favorite kind of day. Time to get the house clean and organized, and then, when the kids are napping…….a little bit of time for mommy to sew! I love rainy days because they are an excuse to stay home. I never get anything productive done on a sunny day!
My view is overcast and windy today, it was beautiful and sunny yesterday. And the trees have started to bud!
right now the view from my window is of our garden waiting to be planted (hopefully this afternoon), a mama and baby great horned owl perched in their nest watching over it, and my boy running around playing in the mud. it’s going to be a good, dirt-filled day!
and i’m loving alicia’s fq pack choices. very lovely!
I live on the fourth floor, right next to a tree that stretches out about as high. As a student, I’m usually by this window reading and studying. Right now the tiniest buds are starting to form on the tree, which is really exciting to me because the branches here have been bare for months now! I really can’t wait for spring!
The view out my window today is a gorgeous sunny day! I really should be out there soaking it in.
What a gorgeous combination of fabrics! I would love to be entered to win please. Thank you!
Unfortunately I work in a lab with no windows- so the view of the fat quarters would certainly brighten things up for me!
On our quiet, historic street within St. Louis City (MO), I can see tiny red buds beginning to emerge on bare tree limbs and bright green grass thriving between patches of dry, brown earth. I also notice the sky is a cloudless and nautical, French blue. The days are gradually warming up (mid 60s), with a few odd chilly days here and there (like today). A few days ago, we took a trip to the local botanical gardens where cherry and magnolia trees, tulips and daffodils are in full bloom. This will be our first spring in MO and we are already taken with the beauty of the city, the surrounding parks, and gardens. This city is highly underrated! Also, having G. Clooney here to share in the beauty this time of year isn’t too shabby either.
It’s definitely spring in San Diego…outside our window, the birds are chirping and frolicking in the trees and the sun is shining (though that is not unusual here any time of year!)
My view – cheerful, bright yellow daffodils in front of a freshly painted, red, vintage gas pump. A large slate blue barn and silos are in front of fields getting greener everyday. A group of chickdees eat at my bird feeder to complete this bucolic scene. I live in a really wonderful place for spring!
The view from my computer is my sunroom with all the beautiful flowers beginning to come alive and ready to be moved to the outdoors.
The view from my window was snowy on april 1st (real funny mother nature) and now it is bright and sunny today! (thanks mother nature)
With great relief, I see sun outside today. Tulips and daffodils are finally peeking up from the ground. I see my neighbor’s roof, the spot where more and more tiles are peeling off, and I’m a little worried for them. The dog is laying on the back porch, soaking up the sun while it lasts. I think we’ll walk to the post office today.
Looking out my window here in NC day to day is like looking through a Fisher-Price View-Master, each day (and sometimes hour) offers a different vista. Yesterday was a downpour, but today is an idyllic spring day. The azaleas just bloomed this week and the dogwoods are opening up all over town…it’s really quite lovely. I can also see my random and hopeful assortment of potted flowers that I can’t wait to get in the ground which are just sitting on my front porch. I can’t plant them just yet, you see–this is just what we locals call a “Sucker Spring” in which all the suckers mistake this weather for Spring and start planting while the rest of us patiently wait for the slide showing that final cold snap to hit us here.
Seeing as how I live in Hawaii. my view is pretty much the same all year round (unless it’s a rainy day). Bright sunshine, green trees, blue skies….we have a mini forest (they are tiny fruit trees) out in our front yard that the previous owner planted and I love looking out the window at them.
Most of my window views are not very pretty. The one from my sewing room is nice though. It shows my neighbors yard, whick is very nice. There are some nice ground covers bushes and trees that makes me very envious when I compare it to my yard, but I feel bad for him because he looks out his window and sees my ugly lawn.
my view is my parking lot of the apartment building I live in, the snow is melting now, so we’ve got puddles, some mud, big mounds of dirty snow. not too pretty to look at right now
I hope to win the fat quarters…I love Portland in the spring, though I live in East Tennessee now, I am an Oregonian at heart. Looking out my window, the trees are budding with new leaves, the grass is green and getting thick. The mountain behind my house is turning a rosy brown color as the new leaves haven’t quite made it out yet, but they are coming! The narcissus and daffodils are blooming and my tulips have sent up their leaves…blooms to follow soon! Dogwoods will be blooming next week.
My view at home is beautiful. Theer is a large field behind out house where our neighbor keeps his three pretty horses. The grass has turned so green, and the horses just make it so peaceful.
Hmm, if we were naming a Fat Quarter Pack by looking out my window today, we’d call it Midwest Mud…or something like that
It’s rainy & windy today…but I know that sunshine can’t be far behind.
I live in NY, and Spring comes oh so slow! I hear the birds singing and a slight green hint in the grass, but the flurries have not stopped showing up once a week
At least today it is rain and not snow! COME ON SPRING… until then I just keep sewing with brightly colored spring fabrics in anticipation!
The view out my window is sunny (for the first time in days after rain, rain and more rain) down here in the Sunshine State. Of course, it’s still humid, but cool enough I can keep the windows open for a little longer before the AC comes on until Thanksgiving! Everything here is green, green, green as my seedlings are coming up, vegetables growing, my perennials are putting out new leaves and my yard is getting ready to need mowing! The pool is looking inviting although we’ve got a few more weeks before I brave it…the water temp was 74 yesterday before the last batch of rain! I need some of that fabric to keep my inspired of Spring because SUMMER in FL will be here in a few weeks!!
Today my view is totally obscured by all the rain we’re getting in NYC. Normally I have a gorgeous view of a park and the flowers and buds on the trees are just starting to come out. So I guess they need the rain!
I’d love to win! These would make a darling spring quilt.
Just right for spring! Thanks for the opportunity.
I wish my view was as beautiful as this collection of prints! Unfortunately right now in Boston it’s a little dreary. It’s set to rain for the next week straight! That only means more time to craft without feeling like I’m missing the beautiful weather outside! I’d love to win this pack!
I love Alicia’s choices!
Since I live in New England, the weather here changes often. However, at this moment it’s gray and rainy. But, if you look closely you can see some bright green grass and some pretty little flowers poking their way up and out into the world.
The view from my window is usually gray with a light rain as is standard for the NW this time of year, but today there are some beautiful rays of sunshine lighting up the camelias blooming in my yard!
Beautiful fabrics! I am writing from Southern California. The sky is a beautiful blue and the trees are being gently swayed by an ocean breeze.
Indianapolis–The view at this time of year ranges from gray and rainy to bright and sunny. Sometimes the view is deceiving–I race out the door expecting warmth and healing–and am accosted by cold. This week in April, spring break for our school agers, also brings signs of summer-to-come; laughing children, basketballs bouncing, wheels of skateboards, bike, and skates making scratchy noises on the sidewalks. So, that’s more hearing than seeing–it’s all part of the view from my window.
It’s a beautiful, sunny spring day and I’m looking forward to getting outside and playing before the rain comes back. All my indoor hobbies have to be balanced with my outdoor hobbies. happy friday!
Rainy, the snow is receding. The earth is damp and brown, the grass the matted and brown, the evergreens are beginning to take on the spring green and the stream is gushing.
Love the fat quarters pack! It will be a little whitle until pink comes into my window, though…
Spring has sprung here in Kentucky, but this is a variable time of year and 70 degrees and blue skys can alternate with freezing temperatures with amazing quickness. Today the weather is cool and the view is rainy and overcast, but pear, apple and cherry trees are in blossom and leaves are just starting to come out. The first asparagus are making their way out of the ground, and the rubarbs are well on their way.
FQ’s are beautiful. The view from my kitchen window is rain. Yesterday was sunny & beautiful! Thats spring on Ohio. I’m so hoping we are done with snow & cold. I can’t wait to plant the flower beds & the vegetable garden. My view from the kitchen is our backyard which you can see the buds on the trees & the bleeding hearts sprouting up.
Beautiful fabrics. It is what I am anxiously awaiting for – spring! In Minnesota I am looking out at thankfully, a mostly sunny day where there are very tiny patches of green if you look close enough. The tulip bulbs are peeking out under my window, but there is snow in the forcast…
Would love to put these fabrics to use until spring really arrives here!
It’s a little dreary and wet out my windowpane, at our farm here in Lancaster, PA, but those fabulous fabrics would definately add a peek of sunshine to my day!!
I live in Southern California and my window view is the amazing mountain range that we have. Right now there is just the tiniest cap of snow visible on Mt. Baldy. I love these mountains and consider them my touchstone. On a clear day you can stand on the sand at the Pacific Ocean and see the snow capped mountains, all at the same time. Awesome!!!
I’m in Minnesota and the sun is shinning down on ALOT of brown grass, trees and gardens. Cannot wait for May!
Well windows can be a little hard to come by! I live in a basement apartment, but do have a 1/2 window in front of my kitchen sink. The view is a wonderful lilac bush, just about to bloom. I can see its little green shoots starting to sprout and at its base are some brightly colored daffodils. Spring is coming soon!
The view from my big windows today is SNOW, Snow, maybe a few minutes of sun, and then more snow. However, right in front of these southern windows are flats of tomato and basil seedlings. I’d much rather look at them right now then at the snow.
I don’t really have a view to be proud of at the moment! I would like to have a view of lots of Spring flowers and lush grass… if that counts
Here in Charlotte, we are enjoying a sunny day with a bit of a breeze. From my window I can see the last of the daffodils. Our trees have lost their white blooms and are full of small green leaves. My daughter’s play house is currently unoccupied and waiting for warmer weather.
Sadly, the view from my window is snow!
About 3 feet of it.
There are little strips of grass near the sidewalk and driveway, but it will be at least a few weeks before I see any flowers – except on fabric!
The view out the window today has sun shinning down on our at the moment quiet street, the flowers are starting to bloom, and every thing is green. Much improved over yesterday which was wet and gloomy.
The view from my window at this time of year is sadly quite depressing: yellow grass and grey sky in the city… The canadian winter is not quite ready to let the spring call the shots… But it won’t be long! And after seeing this gorgeous fat quarter pack, my mood is already better! Magnifique!
I love Posie Gets Cozie!
View from my window this time of year…. Soccer practice! We live behind a highschool and from first thing in the morning (7am) until about 5pm we get to watch soccer practice – and get the occassional soccer ball in the back yard!
The view out my window today is typical for April in Maine(you know April showers bring May flowers). Except for the pine trees, there is no green, just skeleton trees, melting, dirty snow mixed with brown grass, fog and rain. That’s out the back window, out the front window there’s more pine trees, brown grass, and dirty snow but there are bulbs starting to emerge. The little bits of yellow and green are so cheerful on a day like this.
The trees are all still bare but that makes it easier to see the birds who are returning after wintering down south. The grass is just starting to green up again. The sky is very blue and fairly cloudless. It’s very sunny which fools you into thinking it must be warmer than it is.
I’m at work usually when I read your blog (taking a little break). I’m so fortunate to have an amazing view of the Port of Miami. I have a view of all of the cruise ships, all of the beautiful homes and condos along the bay and miles and miles of ocean. In the middle of a hectic day at work (which, this morning was one of the worst in history–but that’s another story!), its so nice to be reminded to look outside–thanks!
My view from my window is a sea scape of buildings by the chicago river. I’m looking down towards the river and see people walking an enjoying the sunny day. It’s cold out but atleast we have some sunshine. The sky is light blue with thin clouds. And I hear a train horn in the distance.
Tennessee is getting green. The bradford pear trees have already shed their white petals, and the dogwoods are just about at their peak. In a word: gorgeous!
View out of my window today is very wet. We are having spring showers with possibility of thunder storms later. We are behind in rain, so we need these April showers. Good day to sew.
Denise
The view outside my window is beautifully spring–blue sky with wispy white clouds, tiny green leaves on the bushes and trees and lovely white blossoms on my tree!
Looking out my window, there is a 4 foot snowdrift across the middle of my back yard. There is a light dusting of snow falling right now as I wait for another 6 inches to fall tonight. The robins and meadowlarks are here so I know spring has come.
I’m glad to be inside embroidering today.
Jody (Gumbo Lily)
Today is a bit overcast, yesterday was some wet snow but next week sounds promising with sunshine (just in time f
Very beautiful fabrics. I love Alicia’s blog.
Today is a bit overcast, yesterday was some wet snow but next week sounds promising with sunshine (just in time for the long weekend!).
The view from my window…beautiful blooming Japanese cherry tree; wisteria creeping up some old pines; our state flower, yellow jessamine at the tops of all the trees at the edge of the yard and my little boy trying hard to fly a kite on this windy April day.
Love the “Oregon April” fabrics.
I live in Northern Idaho which is usually getting to be quite rainy and green by this time of year. However, my view today, as it has been for the last few days, is of snow. Every now and then the sun will shine for a minute or two, but then we’re back to the gray skies and more snow falling. (Big SIGH here) Believe me, those spring fabrics are very enticing right now!
The view from my window is charming in a way that only a relatively busy street in the still chilly – not sunny northern chicago can be. My desk is at the back of the house, which has a beautiful view of … the busiest street in our neighborhood. I see a beautiful little used car dealership, and a $5 haircut ’salon’ (with signs in polish no other). Luckily the front of the house faces a beautiful little park where kids play baseball all afternoon!
Grey sky, grey trees and grey pavement interspersed with hot little shots of hopeful springtime color: canary buttercups, lavender phlox, fuchsia redbud…buds…, rouge tulips and blindingly bright white dogwood blooms.
What a fabulous pallet for a quilt! This has been a great exercise – I’m going to take a pic with my camera phone and dig into my stash tonight to match up colors.
Thanks!
The rain falling on the trees on a blustery Delaware day.
Little patches of blue sky peeking through the grey clouds.
Birds returning to the trees as the storm subsides.
Oh, I’m such a fan of Alicia…the view out my window shows me my gigantic (no, really, it’s huge!) artichoke plant with 6 artichokes on it. Yay! Thanks for the giveaway!
My view is of a lovely tree in front of our living room window.It’s a grey day out today.
The view from my window this year is not very inspiring – there is construction everywhere I look. This fat quarter collection, however- is *very* inspiring!!! Here’s hoping I win these lovelies!
Well I live in Northwest Ohio and today out my window at work its mostly cloudy but there are a few peaks of blue sky through the clouds. I also see brown office buildings and grey, blue and green awnings. At home, my daffodils are starting to push up through the ground and we have a lot of robins in our trees.
The view from my window is mostly green and grey. The trees are still leaf-less and grey but the green is coming in bright green from all of the rain we’ve had as of late. A few flowers are starting to pop, like little splashes in a puddle. I love spring.
Bright tropical green, deep brown soil, blue cloudless sky and two puppy noses leading up to 4 puppy dog eyes just pleading for me to come out to play. Anyone for a game of fetch? =]
From my window, when I pull back the lace curtains, I see a bold blue sky and white puffy clouds floating above my beloved white pine tree. The tree shelters my first flowers of the year: early scilla, some chartreuse hellebores, and a viburnum which is already in bloom. Spring seems to be dragging its feet — at least for me — as it is too wet for me to get out and indulge my other love (besides sewing): playing in the garden.
And OMG I love Alicia and her inspiring blog. The wonderful collection of fabrics would just tickle me boldly bue!
Oh my. I’m the 299 commenter. I wonder if anyone actually reads these.
My dear friends bought me a bird feeder for my birthday years ago to help me get through the tough winter months. It helps to see SOMETHING alive outside. The birds brought hope of spring. Every morning, I look out the front window and see the bird feeder. My son just laughs and laughs at the birds hoping around fighting for a spot on the feeder. Although it’s still cold here, the colors of these fabrics also give me hope of spring!
The view from my window in Texas (when I look past my dirty window panes that I still need to get to in my Spring Cleaning
), is of a beautiful spotless blue sky. In the foreground there’s a huge green and budding tree and next to that my clothes line. I love watching out the window as my dogs play, watching the clothes flap in the wind.
Right now, my view is of rain that keeps pouring down on us. My lawn is so soggy and has puddles all through it. I long to swing in the sunshine on the swing in our lawn, but if I sit in it now, I would just get a shower
It looks bland, bland, bland outside…still small piles of snow, and they are dirty. I need some fat quarters to cheer me up, cause spring is taking its time!
I don’t have a window in my underground office, but when I go outside, it’s almost spring. It’s trying so hard to be spring. There are little green things shooting up from garden beds, and teeny-tiny buds on the trees. They’re all so hopeful, hopeful, and it sure could snow again (they say it will tomorrow) but eventually the weather will turn.
Gloomy. And my daughter is headed out tonight to her first Brownie overnight. It is too cold for that!!
My office is right on the quad of a large University. On most days during the semester it is noisy, with kids outside my window and in the halls. But its Friday and they’re all asleep or drinking.
Well, at the moment it’s SNOWING. And that is making me bitter and cranky. ; ) So I’ll tell you what my favorite view USUALLY looks like in Spring: just outside my office is a large field. In the spring it turns a beautiful green and the killdeer come to nest there. I open my window in order to hear them, as well as the meadowlarks that sit on the posts and call. Behind the field, the forest begins, with tall pine trees that often attract bald eagles. But the best part is when the nearby pre-school takes the children outside; they are SO excited to be out in the fresh air. Their laughter is the best sound of all.
I love Alecia’s picks; I lived in Oregon for 12 years and she’s right on about the colors of Oregon in April! Lovely, just like Miss Posie.
Living in central NC I get full lush green right now – tons of pine trees, beautiful rows of white blooming bradford pears up the streets which my mother adores on her visits.
I see my boys’ garden (aka treasure dig, aka mud pit) still waiting to be planted and surprisingly cool, clear sun. Note: I love fabric with little birds! Squee!
My window at work at the Universiry of Maryland looks out over a little lake where the water is high from the recent rains and the geese are busy watching over their nests. Some of the trees have delicate pastel blossoms that easily blow away with the breeze.
Alicia’s fabrics are lovely!
The view out my window is windy and cloudy today, but it may change at any moment. I have a tree in my front yard that is starting to bud with beautiful read leaves. I am so ready to see spring all around.
I’m in love with the new FQ Packs!!
Beautiful! I would love to make a quilt with these fabrics.
Spring is just beginning here in New England. It is a wet and grey day — every shade of grey from the flat, soft grey of the sky to the dark grey-brown of the wet trees. But, there are little sprouts of crocus green, purple, and yellow to give us hope!
the view of the backyard is covered with yellow pollen,. i feel like i am looking through the world with lemon sunglasses on!
Out of my window I see a big overgrown tree hanging down. I love it because it shades my house and keeps my electric bill down. It’s all blue skies and sunny here in SoCal. I miss the clouds of the NW where my family still is.
The view out my window today is of the April showers that are supposed to bring the May flowers. It has been raining all morning and I keep thinking that at least it is good for the daffs and tulips that are poking their noses up through the soil. I can’t wait for them to bloom!
I would love to have an opportunity to win such a lovely collection of fabric!
Thanks!
Such beautiful colors.
My view is similar here in PA, but more blue,gray, with early greens and forsythia yellow!
Rainy day today
Looking out my window here in Minnesota, I see very little color. The grass is just starting to green, the trees are bear, only the blue jays, cardinals, and robins provide much color. After several days of gloom and clouds the sun is finally shining. i think the weather man is predicting more rain or snow tomorrow. i am going to make a hot cup of tea and go sit on my front step and enjoy the sun; it’s protected there and will not feel as cold. In Minnesota we have to catch the sun when we can this time of year!
oooh free fabric! sign me up.
ooh, I had the best view out my kitchen window this morning! We live on a lake, and we have a cove straight south of us. This morning, while doing dishes, I saw some geese swimming and splashing about! Usually they aren’t so visible, but one was really taking a bath! The fabrics are beautiful, please pick me!
I read your blog everyday when my daughter takes her nap. Today as I type and stare out the window in-front of me, it is SNOWING in April with clouds and birds in the cherry tree trying to stay warm. Spring hurry up and get here please!
Those fabrics are all absolutely grogeous. I have a great view out my window. Many views are of the lake I live on which right now has finally unfrozen. I see buds starting to appear and daffy heads sticking up. It is grey right now but I any minute the sun may push its head out. Spring in Michigan is always a mystery.
The Dogwood trees are blooming, the Clematis vine is beginning to open it’s first blossom. Begonias, Marigolds and other annuals are cheering up the front porch with riots of pink, yellow and white. The lawn has shed it’s winter browns for a happy shade of green. The onion grass is green too.
And the cars across the street are dusted with an abundance of yellow pollen. VBG. Such is life in my corner of the south. Happy spring everybody!
My view is a ton of toys and play things for the kiddos, our BBQ grill and picnic table, and fire pit. It’s messy but the things being scattered all over the yard means that spring has arrived
budding dogwoods, greening grass, the garden turned over and waiting patiently to be planted
I love the Oregon April pack because its so different than what I see. I live in Fl and everything I see is green, ranging from the light and bright color of new leaves, to the deep green of the palm fronds…and lets not forget the deep blue sky.
I am looking out my back window of my house, onto my just barely started vegetable garden, the compost pile, the fence, and the squirrels playing tag or somesuch on the fence!
Well, right now I am on the 33rd floor and all I see outside my window is white fog–it’s a bit eerie!
Today is sunny and a lovely 50 degrees in Southern Wisconsin. Yesterday was miserable and rainy. Sunday they are forcasting snow. You never know what you’re gonna get in Wisconsin.
The best view from my house is in the breakfast nook. Looks out over Lake Union in Seattle. Even though it’s cold outside the lake looks so beautiful and it’s telling me it’s ready for my to jump in this summer.
The view from my window is nice with blossoms from the trees blowing in the wind.
Here in Tucson the view from my patio window (I am sitting at our dining table) is sunny and breezy – our lab is asleep on the patio and the rose bushes and flowers in the flower bed are swaying! It’s an almost perfect day outside!
I adore reading the Posey blog…and think that these fat quarters are perfect for spring!
this is a fun idea. the view of my window here in new england in the city is still a bit bleak. some greens, and glossy brown buts. and a light blue, gray sky… it’s raining…
it will be brighter tomorrow, that’s at least my hope
My view consists of grass that is greening by the day, trees that are budding so the landscape slowly changes colors every day with the new buds popping out. Right now I see red, orange and green buds. In a way, it looks like fall but it is spring because you also see my crocuses blooming and the daffodils starting to emerge. ‘Tis heavenly to look at right now even though it’s raining. But as the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers.
After months of drought in central Texas, we finally got some good rain the past few days. Everything has finally come alive! So much green with beautiful patches of brilliant blue from the bluebonnets.
From our windows, we can see the trees turning beautifully green and lush! The birds are out and about singing away and the kids are playing all day long outside with each other and their dogs. The flowers are starting to bloom too! I love spring!
This time of year is always nice in sunny Los Angeles. I’m especially lucky, because I work at a spot with one of the best views of the city – The Getty Museum. While, my desk has no *real* windows, I do have a skylight and the world outside my cubicle’s walls looks nice and blue! The flowers at the Getty have been looking especially pink and the bumble bees are buzzing particularly louder than usual.
Unfortunately todays view isn’t so create – cold and rainy. But I’m excited to see the buds on the trees and the rain will only help!
I live about 45 min. outside Portland so my the colors of my view are so similar to this collection, including the grey today with pinks of the flowering currants. Patches of blue are peeking through the clouds and I’m looking forward to seeing the Cascade Range from my window when the clouds burn off for the sunny weekend! Love that “posy gets cozy” collection!
The Cherry Blossoms are blooming now, so all along our street are these beautiful pink blossoms, with white Bradford Pear blossoms mixed in. It’s so inspiring and makes me excited for spring!!
As I sit on my couch and look out the picture window in the front of the house I can see the rocking chairs on the porch just waiting for it to be warm enough for us to sit on them. Then I see the strret, empty of walkers and runners at this hour but they went by early in the morning and will be back in the early evening, many walking dogs. Looking further out I see a weeping willow tree on the banks of the Niagara River. Today the river is covered with fog which is unusual. Most days this time of year I see flocks of Canadian Geese resting on their return flight north but the rain this morning must have drove to cover somewhere.
If I were upstairs and looked out my bedroom window I can see Canada and on a clear day the mist from Niagara Falls.
I love my view, the river is so calming.
Sue Cahill, Niagara Falls NY (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
Sewing is some kind of addiction, isn’t it? I look on your blog for ideas, and am constantly admiring your FQ offerings. Four months ago I didn’t even know what a fat quarter was, and now I am scheming and dreaming about getting a stash!
Very sweet assortment – and a fun idea! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
The view from my window is full of sunshine and green. We’re in Texas and everything is just bursting into bloom. It’s the best time of year to live here.
An awesome combo for spring! I see pink and white flowers on trees out my window. Almost looks like winterwonderland with sprinkles of pink.
I wish my view inspired fabrics like that…. I have a brick wall and a hedge to look at…oneday I’ll have a house with a pretty view, or atleast a flower or two out the window.
It’s still snowing here today!
I’m ready for spring – eventually it will come. I do love living with beautiful mountain views 
The view out my front window is green right now–since I live in North Carolina, spring is already here and things are growing and blooming! Our grass is filling out and will need to be mowed soon, to my husband’s chagrin, and the cute little tree we planted last year has sprouted new growth and is starting to develop leaves. Spring is an amazing season of hope and new life, brisk breezes and soft rains, blue skies and yellow pollen. I love it!
This morning I watched a red-headed wood-pecker hopping around and finally scaling up a spruce tree. It was bobbing its head as if to say, “look at me.” But she was quickly trumped by a piliated woodpecker that flew into the yard. Wild hyacinths are just starting to bloom outside the kitchen window and so are the scilia that are naturalized on the lawn. The forsythia has only a couple of blooms. Then there are the raspberry canes that have planted themselves in the vinca bed and remind me that there is always something that needs to be done in our yard!
Hi…The fabrics Alicia designed are lovely…She is so very talented…The view from my window includes cherry blossom trees that have little pink buds on them, just about ready to bloom. It’s actually my favorite stage…I like it better than the blooms themselves…Take care, Katie
Gorgeous fabric. I’m a big fan of Alicia.
Here in the South of England, Spring has definitely sprung. There’s blossom everywhere and even though it’s misty,the sun is burning through and it’s actually WARM. Mmmm
New England is a wonderful place to be in the spring especially if you enjoy mud. It’s raining and the snow is melting and the ground is getting soft = great mud pies. A trip to the maple sugar house is fun to do too. Watch out for those deep ruts in the dirt road. Don’t go too slow or you’ll get suck. Greeting from the East Coast.
So pretty! My view here in Washington is drizzly and snowy, but I can see bits of green from our tulips and daffodils popping through the ground.
I love the view from my window! The trees are finally green!!! And i get to see my puppies when i peek out!
The fabrics are fresh and beautiful. I want to make a handbag and carry it this spring!!! I hope I win.
The view from my window? Are you sure you really want to know? Ok, here it is: The sky is grey but the grass is getting greener. There are tiny buds on the tree that shades the trampoline. The yard is absent of little children right now as they are in school. The sandbox is full oflittle trucks and shovels where they played out the day before yesterday. No flowers in bloom yet…I pray these April showers bring beautiful May flowers!!
Kelly Jackson
http://IHaveANotion.blogspot.com
my view is a yard that needs raked and mowed, and a little garden that is starting to come alive. I’m excited about my snow peas–they are almost 4 inches tall already!
It’s very rainy here today, but the daffodils are out in full force…everywhere except in my yard, that is. Weird. Thanks for the giveaway – those fabrics are beautiful!
Beautiful–and what I’ve got outside my window right now is _not_ so beautiful: dark, rainy, clumps of dirty, melting snow. I know that what’s to come–a coastal Maine summer–will be splendid, but an Alicia FQ pack would get me through till then.
Outside my work window I spy with my little eye a beautiful tree with white blossoms, sort of cherry blossomish…
My view out my window at work is this beautiful tree with dozens of fuchsia flowers all over it. And two weeks ago, I kid you not, a squirrel climbed the tree with a bagel in his mouth and stuffed it between the branches. (Proof: http://www.flickr.com/photos/val1124/3379722788/) It disappeared 3 days later.
Unfortunately it is a rainy day here on the East Coast… but with the rain and the promise of warmer weather will come the yellows of the daffodils, green grass and pink buds onthe cherry trees outside my front windows. A lot like the colors Alicia chose.
The trees finally have leaves in south-central Texas! The pink and red flowers on the crepe myrtles outside my window are also in full bloom. We’ve had lots of clear blue skies, which really makes the colors pop. I love spring!
gray, brown, dark gray, dirty snow, brown, gray, light brown, gray. the sky. the ground. everything in between. some lively spring colors would bring lots of joy! love the mix : )
Yesterday the view from my window was a beautiful spring day – sunny, green, birds flying by. Today, its dark, rainy, and looks darn cold.
From my window today I see a perfect flower on a pink camellia blossoming, its dark bottle green ceramic pot is where my lost child rests outside our back door. I miscarried last month, and for a while the wooden blinds let only a crack of light spill in. Now from my window I see the colourfull circling of the season promissing abundance with bright yellow daffs towering over ’squeeze me’ grape hyacinths, the wet earth and grass (It is Ireland. It is raining!) glistening with droplets like little tears remembered that seem now to chime, “All is well”.
Love Alicia, her blog and her book! Her fabric choices in the Fat Q bundle are fab! The view from my window is a tender spring in the mountains. I live in beautiful Asheville, NC, just about 5 miles away from the Biltmore House. It is breathtaking some mornings when I look out at the lovely green mountains surrounding me, observe the pastels of the sweet spring flowers, and smell the warm southern air. Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I realize I live in a place where people actually come to vacation! My family and I are truly blessed to be here! Ya’ll come and visit!
From my window as I sit in front of the fire, I watch the eastern redbud trees freshly planted anticipating the first delicious purple buds to appear. I hope its soon.
As I look out my window in Minnesota today I see a blue, sunny sky. Unfortunately, I also see bare trees and dead grass. I can’t wait until the tulips start popping up!
This time of the year, I typically am seeing the first buds on the tree and breathing in the fresh, new, spring air. However, yesterday we were hit with another 3″ of snow after a long long winter and now all I see is the dampness surrounding everything. This FQ pack sure would bring in some brightness.
Central Oregon is still BROWN, but we have yellow & purple crocus peeping out and primrose from last year and at the base of plants are the starting of Spring. Mom’s beautiful Lentin Rose is blooming in white and purple, it is the harbinger of Spring for sure and love to see it popping out all bright and cheerful amid the dead/dried leaves of Fall. Blue sky with billowy white clouds blowing by, crisp, crisp, fresh air, straight from the snowpack!!!!!
Beautiful fabrics! Here in Southern California, I see the wisteria in bloom, birds at the feeders, and our seven citrus trees laden with oranges, lemons and grapefruit as well as blossom. The smell of orange blossom is intoxicating and the trees are covered with busy bees. LOVE this time of year.
WOW! Beautiful choices. The view out my window today is alternating sunrays with dark blue-grey storm clouds rolling in over the mountains, and all of it reflecting off the bright green grass (unusual in Denver) from two recent spring snows.
a few times the baby deer from last year have come out and have been romping around like little puppies. i’ve never seen such a thing… they chase each other round…. play ‘chicken’ by charging each other and then darting off the side at the last minute. i love drinking my coffee on sunday morning and watching them from my back door window.
It is a gloomy day here in Ohio. I am looking out my window at trees, cars, and people who are as disappointed in today’s weather as I am.
Oooh, I love Alicia’s combo! I’ve been keeping a close watch out my kitchen window this week. We have a cherry tree that, when it blooms, is half pink and half white. The pink flowers just sprouted a couple of days ago, and the white buds are close behind. My cats have been sharing the window with me and chattering away at all the birds. Hooray for Spring!
My window overlooks my patio (with its collection of hopeful-but-yet-unused containers for planting) and the local park/walking path. Right now, there are remnants of snow competing with the greening grass.
FQ month here at Sew Mama Sew!, was a monumental and profound experience for me. It sounds hilarious and trite – but it’s true! Every time I hear the words ‘Fat Quarter’ or see ‘FQs’ on a blog, I celebrate with secret and silent delight! So much pure and simple goodness came from this one tiny little blog (and shop of course)!
This is the best time of year in the Valley of the Sun (Phoenix Area) and today is no exception! It’s sunny and warm…the only downside: the winds have picked up today, which doesn’t help the pollen count!
I love this combination of fabrics! I live in New Zealand. It’s autumn. I can see a mixture of blue with dark grey ominous clouds and a neglected garden that needs to be weeded, mulched and put to bed for the winter.
Finally! the sun is here to stay for a while. We have had some much needed rain, but I am happy to see the sun. The trees are “greening”, our redbud is in full bloom and the dogwood trees are starting to bud, too.
A very windy and beautiful day here in this part of NC.
I love her pack! Beautiful colors. Similar to the colors of my backyard wilderness – er, garden – with a lovely spring breeze and just the right amount of sun today! Brenda
After a morning of dark skies, thunder, and angry rain, the view out my window gives hope that spring is here! With the sun peeking through clouds the grass glows a little greener, the buds on the trees seem to have opened up a tiny bit more, and the view is fresh!
The view today is sunny with fluffy white clouds. It’s gorgeous!
We’ve had a bit of much needed rain here in Pearland, Texas. I looked out my patio door and my skeletal crepe myrtle was covered in leaves! Now I am dreaming of its snowy white blossoms.
Out my window I see nothing but blue skies, warm breezes, and a big old stash of cloth diapers drying on the line~ Waiting for their next little rump to arrive in a couple weeks! Gotta love AZ in April!
The view from my window today is rosy
Scarf on, chilly fingers
But toes knowing it’s soon time for flip flops
And gardening green spaces
the view from my [maine] window is grey, grey, grey. the sun is not set to show it’s head until sunday the 12th. but when it does, we are ever so grateful!
oh, the view from my window this time of year! isn’t this the worst time of year to ask for something like that? but if you look…really really hard…just hard enough…you can see spring in the daffodils pushing up through the dirt – in the lilac trees beginning to bud – in the cardinal that has been coming every day to explore the backyard – and of course, in the april showers that are gracing us in here in ontario today.
I am so blessed to view the Santa Rosa Mountains through a stream of swaying palm trees out of my kitchen window each day. Most people don’t think of mountain views in the California desert but they are site to see. The mountain colors constantly change as the sun moves which gives me inspiration in my quilting and design projects.
It depends on which window I am peering through. I’ll give you the view from my craft studio window- a bird feeder hangs from a hand-wrought plant hook, just over the barely blooming loropetalum bush. Chickadees are darting in and out catching sunflower seeds in their beaks. Below, my five hens are giving themselves a dust bath in the garden and tussling with the oxalis, which is doing its best to hang on for dear life. Ants are trailing along the fence with hopes of getting inslde for a snack. I will cut them off at the pass. Yep, Spring is alive and well here in Georgia.
louisiana is all shades of green and bright blue skies.
the trees are swaying a bit — they know spring is here. it’s blue skies out there with some gray clouds thrown in for good measure, just so we don’t get too carried away. i’m so glad it’s april!!!
Wow, these fabrics are just gorgeous!
out my window it is gray and rainy. The crocuses are finished, the daffodils are in the first stretch of blooming and the tulips are waiting for the starting gun. If I look out my back window there is nothing but mud. Hopefully that will change in a month when we can grade the lot and plant.(all the mud is from constructing a parking space 2 years ago)
The view from my window today is very gray and rainy, but it has been exceptionally lovely for the past few days so I guess I can live with this nastiness for now. I just wish that I didn’t have to walk outside in it after I leave work
I love this fabric combo. My view is of Pike’s Peak. Lucky girl. Clouded in at the moment. Patches of snow from two evenings ago still hanging out here and there in my yard. Little blades of green grass here and there. If I squint really hard I can see spring .
The view from window today has been one of drastic changes. The day started with thunder and down pours and then quietly changed to a sun filled sky. I love spring.
Today I am seeing little finches in the apple tree out my window… their song is so sweet!
Ohhh, that is so pretty. The view from my window right now – I see a green field and lovely trees. The trees all have pink blossoms right now.
First I must say that the fabric is gorgeous! I also only just learned about rotary cutters last night. They seem like they must be very handy to have.
I live in Ohio and the weather here can change swiftly and unpredictably. The weeping willow is just getting fresh green buds marching up and down its slender branches and clusters of scattered spring flowers in purple, cream and white grow around the yard. Some days around this time of the year the sun is shining, and the wind is only a whisper promise of warmer days but sill has a bite of cold . Other days, like today, it’s gray and the wind is busy icily trying to blow some of the buds off the trees that and make my house feel like it’s winter again.
The view out my front window is a big, gorgeous mountain, still a lot of snow at the top this time of year. But today I can hardly see it for all the cloud cover. Boo.
Beautiful, beautiful collection! The colors are very different from what I see out of my window. I would love to win it.
Love, love the fabric selections. Here, the sky is dark with the sun playing pee-a-boo.My flowering Almond bush is budded and shows promise of a burst of pink blossoms. Daffadils are blooming and trees are loaded with buds. This is my favorite time of the year. The earth comes alive and seems to renew itself, and every year, I think it surely was not this pretty last year.
Alicia blog is a favorite spot in the blogosphere, and the fabrics are beautiful.
Cheerful blue sky, behind gauze-like clouds, peers through the dancing budded branches of our old oak tree. I love this view.
My view (from work) is of the “hogback,” which is part of the Rocky Mt foothills here in Colorado. Today a storm is a-brewin’, so it’s been cloudy all day and we are told much snow will be here tomorrow morning. Ok, true story. A golden eagle just flew by.
What a beautiful combination of fabrics! I live in Southern California, and the view from my window most days of the year is of sunny clear skies and the mountain right behind my house.
Living in VA at this time of year is mix of life returning slowly. WE have beautiful blooming bushes and trees, but all the oaks and maples are barely budding. It’s a strange mix of winter & spring, but my favorite time of year here on the E coast.
My April view from Bellingham, Washington is burgeoning cherry blossom buds, nervous daffodils, and a glorious snow-covered mountain. It is Oregon April encapsulated!
There aren’t any shadows in my back yard today. From inside it’s difficult to tell where the sun is in the sky.
I see the the plot of ground we are preparing to be our garden backed by an old chain link fence with a small gate. The grassy hill rolls out of sight and comes up on the other side as a wall of naked trees with a carpet of last Autumn’s leaves.
Mid-Michigan
love you fabrics!
I’m blessed to be looking out the window at what we call “false spring” in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. The azaleas sing purple while the daffodils keep time in sunny yellow. A normally Carolina blue sky is more muted in shades of gray, while the wind reminds us that winter may not be forgotten. The Easter green grass and pastel surprises are a promise of hope and new beginnings.
Normally I’m at work. Today is a sick day. The sun has just returned here in Kansas, and I can see my tulips have buds, and my cat “Pippin” is playing with them. Oh darn he’s escaped again.
I would love to have those fabrics. Pippin would love to play with them too!
The view outside my window is a great little Japanese-style garden. Right now it is covered in snow! Ah, spring in Northern Michigan..
Oh my!
My view in College Station, Texas is glorious. It’s just an all around sunshine-y, blue-sky day.
The only thing better than looking… is being outside. Hooray for Friday!
Right now the pine branches are waving in the wind against a gray sky. So I need to colorful fabrics to brighten things up!
Beautiful fabrics!
My view out my window is a bright blue sky, with summery green trees blowing around in the strong wind.
Today the view is of rain but I also am looking out my front window to see chives, a head of lettuce and some rhubarb popping up. I can’t wait until summer when all my herbs come back and my vegetables will be growing. Oh, and flowers too. Let’s not forget the fruit trees and berries. I am especially excited for the strawberries and currants.
Okay, if I look out my back window I am most excited to see my neighbor’s magnolia blossom buds. Oh, I can’t wait until it is in bloom
I love Alicia and this fat quarter back is beautiful!
Out my window…..the big, gray, drizzly wonderfullness that we call Seattle. I’ve also heard it referred to as the “Seattle Rain Festival – September – May. The sun is breaking through the clouds sporadically, and each time it does I feel the urgency to get out there and both enjoy it and get something done in the garden while the clouds are still allowing us to bask.
Wow, everyone has such great views. My view is of a radiator shop with graffiti on the wall, and being in between 2 major freeways, it’s truck racing to get on the on ramps. Oh the beauty of working in East Los Angeles. But at least I get to come home to the hills all in spring bloom.
This is an amazing idea!!!
Right now I can see sunlight, blue sky, the fresh greens of Spring, the browns of the tree outside my window that hasn’t woken woken up yet, the white picket fence surrounding my neighbor’s garden, some yellow daffodils and red brick.
Love this combo! I wouldn’t expect anything less from Alicia. Pick me for the Posie Pack!!
Cute!! I esp like the red fabric with the little birdies on the side.
My view this time of year is completely boring – it’s a brick wall. Thankfully there are no windows right in front of me so I have some privacy. The nice thing is I can see above this building and up to the sunshine! And in the afternoon, said wall helps block too much sunlight from getting in the room. Perhaps I need a really nice quilt to cover the window so I can look at that instead!
We have redbud trees outside that are starting to bud. It’s absolutely gorgeous! I love spring!
The view was SO great today! It’s the first day it’s really been sunny and warm enough to go out without my big old winter jacket! Blue skies, trees just starting to bud, and kids playing outside!
I work in downtown Nashville, TN. From my desk I can see lots of state buildings through my two 4 x 10 windows. The one directly across the street is currently tearing out the old courtyard and replacing it with a new park. Since my building is the only one across the street and I have the only office on the front of our building, I am convinced the new park is just for my viewing pleasure! I’m anxiously awaiting it’s completion!
Right now my window opens to a covered apartment walkway – blah. But we signed the papers for our new house THIS MORNING, so my view is about to change! Soon I’ll be looking out at the beautiful snow-dusted mountains.
Well I’m sitting next to my window now with two big oak trees hovering overhead. The trees are at leas 100yrs old. Beautiful! Under the window is a fig tree that produces wonderful juicy figs. YUMMY! There is a rose garden next to the tree that I love. Roses are my favorite! Spring is my favorite time of year!
the view from my window today is glorious. Hundreds of daffodils are blooming in an array of colors. Bright yellows, ones with orange centers, ones with pink centers, pale yellows, and there are even tiny little daffodils I had forgotten I had planted. The pink flowering crabapple tree is about to bloom and I just added a weeping crabapple tree which should bloom soon. All in all a very wonderful Spring view from my window.
The pergola my husband built, along with Carl the Tree – our newly planted maple and a beat-up old picnic table…The sky just seems to be the most amazing shade of blue these days, can’t help but love that.
I can look out the window from where I am sewing and see a tree beginning to leaf out and my birdfeeder. Francis
I LOVE these fabrics– and I LOVE spring in Virginia. Pouring rain this morning, sunny this afternoon and perfect temperatures. I love the green grass, flowering pear and dogwoods, dafodills and hyacinth blooming… it is my favorite! I am always so inspired by the fresh air!
Today, it is rainy and gloomy, and I wish the sun would just come out already.
The trees are still bare and the sky is gray BUT I can see rabbits hopping around the yard and birds building their nests!
I live in Texas so everything is green, blooming and beautiful at this time of the year. The weather is still beautiful – heat has yet to really arrive. Beautiful view.
Just this morning, I looked out my window to see my ‘red ridinghood’ tulips in bloom… I fear they will be covered in snow by tomorrow AM, if the weather people’s prediction is correct… ah, springtime in the Rockies!
I live in Alberta, Canada, and Winter just doesn’t want to quit. It’s grey and overcast ouside the window with tiny snowflakes swirling around. I love the colours of this fabric pack because it looks like spring and boy do I need to see some spring.
Oh dear, the view from my window is just awful! From my office-slash-craft room, I see the side of the neighbor’s apartment and then a slew of parked cars! There is one bush growing in the middle of the rocks in this desert community and it is about to be up-rooted due to the heavy windy and dreary skies! I’m going to stay inside and sew!
Outside my window is an un-pretty student houseing block. But directly in front of the window is my mini garden complete with pretty flowers, lush green plants, and herbs. It makes the view *so* much better, and my house so much more welcoming.
Unfortunately we have a ton of snow on the ground….however, you can hear the drips of the snow melting, which is a nice sound….hopefully spring temps are just around the corner!
The view from my Chicago window is still pretty bleak. Winter’s trash and debris all over the streets, gray everywhere, nothing blooming yet. So that fat quarter pack sure would brighten things up!
Today was as fickle as fickle can be! It poured, it cleared up and got sunny, it was overcast, it rained again, it was cold and blustery, it cleared up and was all blue skies and puffy clouds. And now it’s 75*. But the daffodils are happily blowing in the breeze……….
For the first time in days the sky is bright blue and cloudless. The trees bright green against all that wonderful blue! Northwest Florida at it’s most beautiful.
a blue sky and beautiful dogwood trees!
beautiful fabric! one day I’m going to win one of these!!
outside my window is my garden and this is the first spring i’m living inside this house so i’m enjoying watching things sprout and trying to guess what they’ll grow into. also i’m finding spots to plant the seeds i’ve been hoarding until i got this garden of my own!
Love the fabrics! I’m looking out the window waiting for the trees to sprout their leaves again. For now, it’s still gray skies, streets and buildings. But once the leaves are back, the city softens and brightens.
SUCH pretty fabrics!
I’m so envious of all the folks who see beautiful warm weather…. well, I just checked, it’s sunny out, but still kind of chilly – I’m on a third floor right now so all I can see is a bare-naked branch whipping around in a decent wind. (Come on, spring, I’m ready!) At home, the excitements of city life come with the price of a view of a neighboring building’s windowless brick support wall…. pooh.
Today, I’m sitting at the register in my store looking out on a gorgeous day. Today also begins our annual world famous Strawberry Festival in town and I’m enjoying the added foot traffic. Plenty people carrying full flats of strawberries; girls in sundresses, couples holding hands as they sip their frozen strawberry daiquiris! Its delightful!
the view from my window today: sun trying to break through a yellow-green fog of pollen. That’s the beauty of Georgia in the spring.
I live in Michigan, so you never can expect what you’ll see. The other day there was heavy snow. Yesterday was 65 and sunshine. And today the wind is gusting so hard it shakes the windowpanes!
Well, we have 5 windows in our house that face a freeway but out kiitchen window faces our front yard and at this time of year the Liquid Amber trees on the sidewalk have leaves that are such a striking shade of green. Almost an acid / lime green. The lawn is in its prime lush and soft, and out lavender pots on the front porch are in full bloom. I love Spring!!!!
The view out my window is out onto a busy city street in a “re-developing” neighbourhood near downtown. Every 15 minutes or so during the day, a bus stops in front of our house, but the longer we’re here, the more the noise becomes a calming soundtrack to our lives.
My view:
Yay! The grass is finally starting to get hints of green.
At the moment there is a very cute groundhog munching on something underneath my forsythia bush (he better hope my boyfriend, who worries about groundhog damage, doesn’t see him!)
Outside my large living room window here in northern Arkansas, I can see our crabapple tree leafing out, one of my blooming lilac bushes, my husbands favorite Japanese maple and *sigh* some of the damage from the ice storm we endured in January. Spring has finally settled in here with warm sunshine and a cool breeze.
What a fun idea– the best part about spring is how the changes in view make you feel fantastic and energized. From my window right now, I see forsythia bushes flaming to life, phlox creeping around the rocks in the garden, and horses in pastures that are suddenly green again. The view when I drive around my town is strawberries growing, which also makes me happy
I have a little sloping hill in my back yard, and beyond our back yard is a little tiny pond where Canadian geese nest every spring. I love watching the grass turn brighter shades of green and seeing buds pop out on the trees.
Thanks for a fun giveaway!
Beautiful designs! My view includes blooming cherry trees, wet pavement, black dirt, and some columbine that needs to be planted.
Love her choice and her post through her neighborhood. Our view does not change much as the change in our seasons are not immediately or clearly visible here in Hawaii. But we are in a bit of a windy spell here and so the sea is filled with whitecaps at the moment.
Lisa M.
Unfortunately, the view from my window is rainy and gray. But they tell me it’ll be sunny on Sunday!
the view from my window — little crocuses and scilla. beginnings of lamb’s ear and strawberries. dandelions (how did that happen?). lots of sun today in iowa. hope i win! i’ll send love through my blog if i do!
If I stand up I can almost see over the walls of my cubicle and out the nearby window. So I go around the side to take a look. It’s crisp and windy, but there’s not a cloud in the sky this clear Spring day, the sky a deep cerulean. The view’s not the great, just the side of a neighboring building, but if I’m lucky maybe a plane will fly by.
The sill in here is lined with bottles of buttons, shells, trinkets. Just behind them through the grey day’s foggy glass are thin lilac wands newly budding in green, now bending and waving from the flight of small birds- briefly perching, considering. The wren is eyeballing her house. Her view from the branch at the window sees me, looking back. She thinks better of it all, takes off. I turn off the lights and sew in the dusky afternoon light. Hoping she returns.
well, the view out my window today is a prettty one. Yesterday, ehhh, not so much, but today…… the sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky, so it’s a beautiful, brilliant view; the perfect backdrop to the pint-sized redbud still in bloom. My 3 pink tulips are still hanging on, so I’ve a spash of pink to make me happy. Pink is a good color for that. : )
My favorite view is the sun streaming through the window in the afternoons when all 3 kiddies are down for a nap!
My daffodils are heavy from the rain, but the pink cherry blossoms seems lit from within against the gray sky. The really is April in Oregon. My husband is beside me, staring longingly at his BBQ.
All the snow has melted from our blizzard – the sun is shining and the wind is blowing (howling) – but otherwise, it’s gorgeOus!
my view is of our back yard, sunny and strewn with toys!
Right now my view is of a parking lot on a grey, rainy day. There are two Canada geese that have decided it’s a nice place to set up shop and I see them waddle by every now and then. Perhaps not the the most inspiring view, but that hardly matters on a Friday afternoon! I’m excited anyway!
the view outside my window today consists of soothing blues and greens from the ocean, with windblown white-capped waves. the trees and lushness here in hawaii right now is a vibrant green, a result of the grey skies and rain above. yes, we have grey days here, too. i think i see the bright rays of sun trying to peek out as i type this.
Today in Connecticut the view out my window is a contrast. If I look out from my chair I see gloominess and fog, lots of grey. Fortunately all I have to do is stand up and I can see a lawn with sweet new green grass poking through, and best of all a nice patch of crocus and daffodils — all purple and white and yellow. I definitely have Spring Fever!
Ah, the view from my window is varied today. At the moment, I am feeling the warm rays of sunshine, but not ten minutes ago we were in the midst of a serious rain shower. Thus is the bipolar weather of the Pacific NW, I suppose.
This time of year, there is a lovely view from my sewing room window. The neighbors flowering plum is all abloom, and the Stellar’s Jays are out in force. It’s quite lovely.
I love these fabrics! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oops, I forgot about the view from my window…I see trees beginning to bud, robins hunting for worms and a garden waiting to be planted.
Out of both my work and home windows, I have views of alleys. Still, I can see a big swath of sky – lovely clear blue and filled with clouds here at work and trees at home – all green and growing! Not to mention the various interesting people and animals…
Well, right now it is snowing buckets! Isn’t this April? I guess it is typical weather in the Colorado Rockies. This fat quarter pack really has me itching for spring.
The view out my window is still a mix of white & brown. Snow covering most of the ground and the parts showing through are muddy patches of a lawn to be planted later this year. In the distance, brown and gray of trees yet to get leaves. I’m envious of all of you to the south experiencing the beauty of Spring already.
I live in Seattle. My view is drizzle, drizzle, drizzle!
Four hours after the post and it is already sold out. WOW. I would so have bought them maybe two. So now I will have to hope to win!!!
Believe it or not, it looks like autumn in Coastal Carolina as the live oak trees shed their leaves. These trees are semi-deciduous, meaning they stay green all year, but shed their leaves in the spring when the new growth appears.
Layered on top of these waxy, ovate leaves is yellow pine pollen.
Achoo! Welcome spring!
Peace to all.
Jane
Neat! The first two blogs I check are SMS and Posie Gets Cozy, so I thought it was great to see the two of them teamed up today!
The view from my window (or patio door, in this case) is of trees with red, swollen buds, blue skies with layers of fluffy white clouds, chipmunks scampering up the pine trees, cardinals and jays getting seed from the bird feeder, big fluffy tufts of uncut grass, and a dog who is cat-napping in the foreground while enjoying the spring breeze…
oooohh! I love this pack–I saw it on her blog! I’m in Western WA so my view is likely vey similar to Ms. Paulson’s! trees, birds, buds, snow…(for real! just this morning-but it didn’t keep snowing or stick
Today is sunny, and though the snow is melting, the sky has that not-yet-quite-Spring look to it.
Have just come out of a very dry summer in Canberra so the ‘lawn’ is dust, weeds, dog droppings and dog holes. If I ignore the ‘lawn’ I have 3 lovely trees along the back fence, lots of camellias just coming into bud, japanese windflowers, and bulbs shooting their lovely greenness (is there such a word), and the correas are in flower. Their red and yellow bell like flowers are amazing. And it rained last night!!! Must clean up the dog droppings!!
The view out of my window is a dogwood tree that is our bird feeder station during the winter
and spring. We look out at Stellar Jays ,Junco and an assortment of finches too. Our grandkids
love to watch the birds at the feeders. They live in Seattle and don’t see many birds in their
neighborhood. I too love Alicia’s blog and her choices for fat quarter grouping is like everything
she does….just very delicate and girly. Would love a chance to win a set. Thanks.
Today has been a patchwork grey-blue sky with lots of green peeking up through the brown under our cedar tree outside of my window. On the edge there’s some pink buds and leaves about to pop!
ohmy…well the view is damp with georgia rain…lots of chartruse green from all of the new leaves on the “other” trees…polka-dotted with white dogwood flowers on one scraggly tree…(the tree itself is pathetic and i wouldn’t have known that it was a dogwood at all…except that the flowers are marvelous with their tiny pinched edges)…
…some amazingly hearty johnny-jump-ups bursting from a mossy flowerpot…they somehow survived winter when nothing else did…and they are very showoffish and really rather gawdy…
oh…and i love the fabrics that alicia picked…
It is very early spring here in Quebec city, so what I see right now is the pool in my backyard still filled with ice and wind blowing in the bare trees. Heavy rain is on the forecast, so the good news is that snow is going to melt a bit.
Lovely fat quarters! My view from the back window shows sleety, snowy residue on the concrete with flashy primrose coloured crocuses peeking through the slush. Just gorgeous! Those delightful fat quarters could be put to great use in making Japanese knotted purses; I’ve made a few for friends and they are a big hit! I blogged about them here:
“http://nancymccarroll.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-japanese-knotted-bags.html”
Nancy
The view out of my sewing room window is of my pretty little pear tree with a birdfeeder hanging on the branch in perfect view out the window- I so enjoy watching the Cardinals in the Winter and the Robins in the spring!
Beautiful fq pack- I have my fingeres crossed for this one!
Out my window, I see the sun, newly emerged from behind the clouds we’ve been under for days. Leaves leftover from the fall still litter the backyard. Sun plus leaves equals raking!
Lush green lawn, all flowering trees doing their job, here in the central valley of Ca. And the lilacs are in full bloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The view outside my window reminds me a lot of these gorgeous fabrics. It is wet and the sky is a bright steel gray. Beautiful spring crocus and daffodils are starting to peek through the last bits of snow that are refusing to melt.
Fantastic colors, and the bird is my new favorite. My view is of a parking lot (boo) but it’s a beautiful 70 degree day here.
I’m loving Alicia’s fat quarter pack. It so reminds me of oklahoma where the saying “if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute” is truly said. We have enjoyed balmy breezes and cotton ball snow flakes this past week with the trill of bird voices in the midst of all.
There’s a beautiful view of snow capped mountains out my front window. I still am not used to seeing them after living here only a year and spending 6 years in sunny Arizona before moving here. They are a beautiful site though and my three year old tells me we should climb them.
Everytime I look up from my desk, the weather is doing something different today; snow, hail, sun, rain…it’s been a strange weather day. I’ve seen everything but a tornado. Bright blue sky for the moment and I see snow on the peaks of the Siskiyou mountains. It’s all lovely.
My view right now… my potted Meyer lemon tree that has HUNDREDS of little lemons poking out from the leaves. I’m so excited! It’s a beautiful Austin day but it will be better tomorrow because my sweet, sweet sister is coming from Santa Monica to visit me. Yippee!
This is my first actual spring so to speak because I recently moved from a Tropical climate to Canada in the middle of winter! Today, the view from my window is a rainy one but with the hope of pretty flowers-a-coming for spring. The trees are still bare except for the evergreens which are a lush and deep green. The grass is going from yellow to green and the sky is a quiet greay. I think it will be sunny tomorrow…I hope (smile.)
the view from my window consists of blue skies, trees (various shades of green), and the tall palm trees, los angeles is famous for.
i love this fabric pack and i hope i win it.
The view out my window is our weeping cherry tree, that exploded into an amazing pink fluff ball over the past few weeks. I like to lay in bed and look at the pink against the blue sky (when it makes an appearance) And right now, my kitty is bumping his head against the window for me to let him in.
Thanks!
Spring in Southern California along the coast of the Pacific Ocean means my view is of the very choppy waves, the clouds rolling along quickly, and the huge bank of ice plant blooming florescent flowers of pink.
The view out onto my balcony shows my terracotta pots just waiting to be filled with soil for planting peas and loose-leaf lettuce. I can see down toward the golf course, and the golfers have ventured out now that the worst of the cold is over. Beyond that, the trees are just starting to bud, but I can still see out to the pond because they’re not too leafy yet. It’s a very pretty view; I am blessed!
The colors of this fat quarter pack remind me of spring twilight!
I love this window view, and only wish mine was as colorful! Unfortunately, things in my neck of the wood are still looking winter-drab. Brown, yellow and gray-green prevail, but at least there is a bright blue sky! Spring will come, spring will come, I assure myself. Alicia’s pretty fabric choices would definitely hold me over until my view out the window is as lovely as hers.
It is a beautiful spring day here in Burbank, California. The window next to my computer looks out into the backyard where the jasmine is in full bloom, the white petals from our locust tree are fluttering off its branches and there is a burst of fuchsia coming from the bogenvelia. Lovely. Hey, I should be sitting outside instead of in the house!
The view from my kitchen window is spectacular! We look towards a regional park, and it is hilly, and for the first time since we moved here it is beautifully green! I don’t know how long that will last in Southern California, but for now it is beautiful!
Goodness, I can’t imagine being the winner with all these comments … what fun to read them all though ;o).
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The view from my window is very April showery … a welcome change for us in Australia after the drought. Sadly there are those battling floodwaters now – we live in a land of extremes!! Some rain is good though, it’s washing our little world clean again after so many months of heat and dust – nice to see new shoots on the plants too
Hugs,
Joy
Beleive it or not-it is snowing in the Western US. Crazy I know! What I wish I could see iss bright sunshine and some blooming tulips!
It is lovely outside my window!! It looks like a perfect December afternoon. We had a heavy snow fall a few days ago and the pine trees branches and bent with a heavy sticky snow. There are bunny footstep around my yard and there are a few early returning birds in my apple tree that are wondering what the snow is doing here.
The new fabric grouping is wonderful. Beautiful choices!!
Linda in Canada
Beautiful fabrics!! Thanks for sharing. Let me share with you the view outside my window. I live near the equator, so it’s summer all year round here. There’s a big old tree which gives my room plenty of shade. I love the mornings and evenings when birds chirp outside my window on sunny days.
I live in California — in the San Francisco bay area. We have beautiful weather this time of year. When I look out my window, I can see a mass of yellow freesias in the planter beneath our Sycamore tree. I had planted a pack of mulit-colored freesia bulbs a few years ago, but they all came up yellow. Today there is one lone pink freesia — the first time in all these years we’ve been seeing that same sea of yellow!
Living in Calgary, Alberta means the view from my window this time of year is obstucted by snow! Just this past weekend we received a solid 12 inches overnight. Oh well, I know spring is coming soon. The good news is that no matter what the weather is, I get to see the beautiful Rocky Mountains from my window, and that is always a good sight.
What a fun collection of fabrics!
The view from our window? Right now, gently moving water on the shore of the lake… but later on this weekend we’re expecting 6 inches of snow or more… Ugh! Please come quickly, Spring! 
My view is mixed and there is hope. It is raining, but warm. The last vestiges of snow are hanging on in the shaded parts of the yard. But there is hope, yes hope…little inch high iris leaves are poking through the soil close to the windows. Yeah Spring.
Love the fabric. I remember reading the story in Hallmark magazine last year. What an courageous couple!
Debra
What a delightful mix! The view from Alicia’s wondow must be lovely!
From my window at this time of the year, I can see nature slowly coming back to life again. Actually, winter receded a bit early this year, so there’s no snow left, and already some tulip leaves showing up, along with a tint of green from the new grass coming out under the yellow layer left from last year. Maybe not the most gorgeous view, but sweet enough to make me think that life is good.
we are transitioning from Summer to Autumn here right now and in between a crazy stormy week of rain we have heat and sunshine. right now outside my window is unusually grey and breeezy – a welcome reprieve from all the humidity and heat!!
If I had responded 5 minutes ago, it would’ve been sunshine and fluffy clouds… as it is, it’s looming gray and overcast, and potentially breaking with rain. *sigh* Oh the fickle weather here! But wait! There is a tiny spot of blue sky in the distance! Who knows….give it another 5 minutes and we’ll see then.
I love the beautiful shades of color, and will never pass on fun spotted prints!
sunny blue sky, but lots of wind!
Spring in St. Louis from my window, light blue skys, warm clouds, greenest of green grass, interrupted by shouts of joy from the little ones running accross the lawn. Spring. I ove those FQ packs, but then again, I’m a fabric nut.
NancyC
I’m usually *very* picky about my fabrics, but I love ALL of those! Great choices!
My view is two big, brown closed doors. ; ) I’m sitting outside my boss’ office, BUT I do have lovely pink tulips on my desk which is a much prettier view than the doors!
I like to watch the squirrels and stray cats walk through our back yard, looking for food. My husband likes to leave old bread and crackers outside for them a lot, so now the squirrels are conditioned to watch for him leaving food. A couple times a squirrel has come up really close to my husband after he has left food out. We’re trying to get the squirrels to eat out our hands, but they’re not quite that tame yet.
From my window I can see mountains, tropical flowers, and a soccer field
Through my kitchen window I see the peach tree. It just finished up blooming, and the new leaves are closely covering the branches- as if they were dipped in bright green sprinkles. There are a few old blooms still clinging, shriveled and a darker pink than the blooms were. Sometimes I see mourning doves perched on the lines, though there are none there now I can hear their sweet sad sound cooing somewhere outside.
Ummmm, right now I am noticing some dead bugs in between the screen and glass, left over from a long winter…. : )
But looking past that… A lot of sweet birdies chirping away. True hope that spring just might find it’s way to Minnesota after all! : )
ummm , roses ( well no blooms yet, but all fresh brown leaves and only few have turned green )of all kinds reg, orange, white, yellow, pink
Oh dear … the springtime view from my window in Western New York does not compare at all to view from an Oregon window. I’m looking at a very wet, rutted yard. We’ve been plowed out all winter which tears up the sod and deposits in in large piles and leaves angry strips of dirt and mud. I also have a dog so I have a whole winter’s worth of dog poop staring at me. I like to call it “dog poop soup.” I would LOVE to have a beautiful Oregon April instead of a WNY one ….. Not that I don’t love my area the other months of the year. I gotta admit though, April is a tough one!!
my view….a crappy wet rainy day…played indoors all day with lots of kiddies and close friends. We had a tea while th kiddies played and danced all afternoon…
I’m here in misty Florida today. While the rest of the world welcomes spring, we are rolling into summer with rainy mornings and steamy afternoons. Every color and texture in my view is just a little softer and more diffused because of the moisture in the air. The trees and flowers all look like the pastels we used to use in sweet old fashioned baby quilts. Here and there a sparkled puddle will flash, then fade as the sun peeks in and out between the patches of cloudy sky.
There is still time to rest before the blasting flash of heat and sun turns up the intensity on everything in sight. But…. it won’t last long.
great collection!
The fabrics are absolutely beautiful. The view from my window is of my back patio. It is sun shiney in Florida today. My black adirondack chairs are calling my name. I’m staring at my stainless steel charcoal grill thinking about what to cook on it tonight. Everything looks so inviting.
Outside my window, I see two daffodil yellow helmets on PGE workers installing a new pole in the backyard. Its raining April gray showers on and off again.
The view out my window today is a wild one. Tree limbs, trying to hold on to tender new leaves, are whipping from side to side. The birds are braving the onslaught of wind, correcting their path time and again, looking for food. The saucer of water that I keep filled for them, is rippling like a tiny, white-capped body of water. Even through the window I hear the howling, and though it sounds like a cold, dark night, it’s probably 70* out there.
The view from my window is green pasture, cows, a couple of donkeys, redbuds and daffodils galore with a few tulips here and there. I love Spring time!
Here in GA, we have beautiful seasons..but right now all I see is construction
I need some floral fabric to brighten the day a little! 
a beautiful blooming plum tree and daphne bush. ahhh
From my window, I see green grass, sweet yellow daffodils, and a little boy making a cardboard box into a rocket ship:) We live in Southern California and it is very nice to see so much green right now.
I love the fabrics. They are lovely.
I just looked out the window in time to see the wind whip a couple my son’s cloth diapers off the drying line and onto the echium (also known as Pride of Madeira) that is in full bloom.
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Normally a sunny view from my window in Southwest Florida—today its raining! So Oregonian!
Love the blog, it’s inspiring me to sew more! Here at the computer, the view out my window is of my purple lilac bush in the side yard. I have a white lilac bush in the backyard too. They’re getting some green on them, but they’re not quite ready to bloom. I love bringing the blooms inside, it makes the whole house smell wonderful!
This time of year TX is beautiful! There are tons of birds in the air and flowers are popping up everywhere. We have bluebonnets. They are beautiful!
The view from my front window looks out onto a majestic crab apple tree in full bloom this time of the year. The blossoms are crisp white with a hint of dark pink in the center. I love to gaze out at that tree!
The view out my window is a large prickly pear cactus, a few mesquite trees, and a couple of cardinals male and female trying to get a drink of water out of the dogs bucket, then onto the food bowl for a couple morsels of kibble. There are also quite a few quail roaming around. I live in Tucson AZ.
I’m so excited about the view from my window this spring! In addition to two one year old twins that are in the yard as much as possible, we also just adopted an adorable little puppy. In addition to growing babies and puppies, we also have tulips along our picket fence in our front yard and all sorts of ideas bouncing around in my head for a vegetable garden on my front porch.
I am still at work and the view from my 4th story window shows dark grey clouds heavy with rain and snow that are hiding the tops of the mountains. The mountain side that I can see is more than lightly dusted with snow but the valley floor has just had rain today… so far. So the grass is greening but most delightful are the very bright yellow green leaves popping out on the willows. My favorite harbinger of spring!
Right now it is a beautiful spring evening…just got my husband and oldest son packed and out the door to a boyscout campout…I’m watching the other 4 kids as they play in the field out back (never mind that the grass is high and way toooo wet to mow)…One of the girls is picking the dandilions and blowing them….golly…more weeds and the rest are playing tag with the neighbor children…..Thanks for the giveaway…
The view from my window is very, very green. Thanks to some much needed, recent rains we are greening up nicely here in the south. Goldfinches and cardinals are feeding in the yard, and the garden veggies are up.
Unfortunately, a huge construction just outside my window! Hopefully they will finish soon!
The window I’m looking out is not my own, but I’ll take it! — buttery late afternoon sun, golden light filtering through the leaves, light breeze and gentle shadows. A little cooler than it looks.
The tree in our backyard is just starting to put out its leaves, and the grass is slowly turning green again… underneath this morning’s snow, that is.
Spring is absolutely my favorite time of year! After being cooped up all winter, I love looking outside and seeing the green begin to peek through the brown grass and the buds on all of the trees and bushes. The daffodils and tulips are in bloom right now. They never fail to make me smile!
From my window I get to look at the Blue Ridge Mountains bursting with spring redbuds and cherries. The sun is setting now and it is quite peaceful.
San Antonio is full of sunshine and blue skies these days. As I look out my sewing room windows (and I just rearranged this week so I can while I’m working!), I see the beautiful trees, plants and garden in my backyard. If I look to the side, I can see the playscape. (If I’m lucky, I can open the windows and hear my boys giggling as they play with my hubby outside.) Our windows are almost always open (and, it’s almost always a surprise to wake up to a very chilly bedroom!), and I love looking out at night and watching the deer nibble on the neighbor’s landscaping. (I don’t love that they’re eating the neighbor’s plants, but I do love that they stroll freely through our neighborhood.)
My neighbors across the street have a lovely yard that fills up with little blue flowers (Scilla?) every spring – it is so refreshing and surprising to see them come up out of the brown grass and catch the morning sunshine each day.
We see our family milk cow eagerly awaiting some green grass (she will settle for hay, for now), fat red robins hopping on our lawn munching wriggly earthworms, and this particular evening in NH we see flashes of lightning and hear the lazy rumblings of thunder – the first thunder storm of the year!
Williamsburg, Brooklyn – The view from my living room reveals a house about 7 feet away. The house doesn’t run parallel to mine, it’s situated at sort of an acute angle. There are dozens of birds that have taken up residence in the 150 year old clapboard siding, they are constantly flying in and out of the little holes that they have created in the siding. I hope that the owner of the house is able to rid themselves of the birds someday but in the meantime I love watching the comings and goings of the avian residents of the largest birdhouse ever.
The view from my window is just a little green grass and then the road. I can’t wait to move!
The view out of my window is still snow-covered – but it’s raining and I can see the tips of the garden fence beginning to appear!
The view from my window is of a budding apple tree, blue skies and a mossy lawn!
From my Melbourne, Australia window I see dark clouds promising more much welcomed rain. There’s my poor dying tree which didn’t survive this years scorching summer days and drought. But more prominent is an abundance of green from the more resilient plants (and my poor previously crispy lawn), recovering thanks to rain from a couple weeks ago.
From my window this Friday, I can see new grass growing through the misty rain. The willow tree has begun leafing out and the daffodils are heavy with rain. I would prefer sun, but the mist is beautiful in it’s own way.
Ruth
The best thing about the view from my backyard right now is watching my two sons enjoying their trucks and just digging while Daddy loads up his truck for work tomorrow.
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Don’t know which one I like best.
Michigan’s view this lovely day is not yet springy and colorful and full of budding things, but I am seeing greys, faint greens and brown. Loving Alicia’s fabric selections!! Fingers crossed! LindaSonia (baddabinda@yahoo.com)
Right now the sun is shinning bright and the wind is blowing slowly. I can see the branches of the palm trees sway back and forth. My favorite part of this time of year is seeing my daughter play in the grass and get so excited over all the Creator has made.
The view from my window is Rain and more Rain. I can’t really complain though, because we usually still have snow on the ground this time of year. But my tulips and daffodils are out about 2 inches. It’s great. I’m excited to see them bloom early this year. I can’t wait to get out in the garden. I love spring.
Right now I’m looking out my window at sunshine! This time of year I can see the buds forming on the trees and bushes outside our front window. I find it so exciting and inspiring that spring is so close! It makes me want to shed off my winter layers, get outside and soak up the fresh air.
My view in VA is of crisp blue skies just clearing after the rain, and the sun is splashing golden light on the empty tree branches. Tiny little heads of herbs, peas, lettuce and onions are beginning to peek out of my kitchen garden. There’s a freshly plowed brown plot where the potatoes have yet to make an appearance. The azaleas and lilys of the valley are considering the show they’ll make in weeks to come, while the forsythia and red bud trees splash the treeline with bright yellow and purple to encourage the trees, moss and grass that are trying to revive their lush green color.
The view from my window largely snow and ice – dirty snow, fresh snow, layers of ice on the ground, icy-edged flotillas of wet snow sliding from metal roofs. It is still winter here in Juneau, Alaska. I can see Mt. Jumbo, which is all snowy forest topped by snowy cliffs. The sky is bright white – it’s overcast with high clouds and that blinding light. Since the colors outside right now are so monochromatic, for me it’s currently all about sound. The sounds of the birds in my Norwegian beech are incredibly loud and if I close my eyes I can see daffodils and tiny spring iris. I know they’re under there… Last week I replaced my JoAnn Fab “Let it snow” sign with a large metal daisy on the side of my house. Wishful thinking. I can hear the flower scraping against the shingles as the wind blows it from side to side.
I forgot to tell you the view from my window. My mini horses are surrounded by a soggy pasture in lush green grass and perky little wildflowers in yellows, Indian paintbrush and the first bluebonnets of the season. And lots of sunshine. In the mornings the landscape is draped in droplets of dew like a fresh rain…my window to the Texas world…
Outside is alive with many shades of green. Bursts of color here and there, the white blooms of our strawberry patch against the dark green leaves. The pink blooms on our peach tree. And today a gorgeous blue sky with huge white clouds. It looks especially beautiful after many days of rain.
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Chas
I’m reading this from work, where my window is tucked away beneath a Japanese maple tree. The leaves aren’t out yet, so I see moss-covered bark and blue sky peeking through the branches. At home, I get to look out at Bellingham Bay, which is often filled with sailboats, the San Juan Islands, and the mountains of British Columbia’s Coast Range. Beautiful!
Hmm… the view from my window. I am currently at work, in an office, at the airport. I see mostly airplanes and birds. Oh yeah and a half dead tree that I have been rooting for to blow down. It’s really windy here in Ohio today.
From my window I look down on my garden where everything is getting ready for a winter sleep. Few flowers at present, as it’s autumn here. In the distance beyond is the beautiful 150 year old sandstone church where my DH is the minister.
I have a big 100 year old pecan tree in the backyard. This time of year it is usually bare and looks dead. This year has had warmer weather and more early rain and it is already budding all over. The neighborhood stray cat chose our yard to have her five kittens and they all like to play around the trunk of the tree, climbing and swatting at each other. I love this time of year the most!
I don’t know if I am too late but it’s dark and rainy here in Massachusetts so not much to look at outside. But about an hour ago we had lightening! And that’s good because that means it’s finally getting warm!!
Today the view from my window was everything an early spring Friday should be. Wet, in all the best ways-saturating the hues, making edges fuzzy, each bursting bud a dab of color in the distance, formless and promising. The air whispers of more storms tonight and tomorrow, rain and rain until you almost begin to tire of staying indoors, until your fabric starts to show your craving for warmth and light, the golds of beaches and hay. Then the rain will stop and summer will begin. But for now the rain and the wet and the gray-green-pink of spring outside is a soft blanket to envelope, and I have a needle and thread and a smile.
The view is dark. We are having a thunderstorm. Lots of puddles and lots of rain.
From my back window I can see speeding cars and all of the lovely blossoming trees that the drivers are probably unaware of in their hot pursuit to get home. I’m a Pacific Northwest Girl– as soon as I tell you what the weather is doing, it will radically change!
Wow. Gorgeous fabrics.
We have rain here in the northeast today, and signs of spring are just out the window: crocuses, robins, and lots of mud. So pretty!
Right now, the view out my window is a mix of new and old, life and death, Spring and Winter. Daffodils are coming up and the Crocus are blooming, but there is a Winter storm on the horizon. The tumult of early April!
I think that fate is at work because I just picked up her book at the library this morning…before this post was made!
The view from my window was rainy and muddy today. I could see the swingset and my kitchen garden. My garden is starting to show very early signs of life though there isn’t much green yet. We just lost the last of the snow last week.
They are just beautiful!
The view out my window here in Alberta, Canada tends to be a bit brown at this time of year, however there is promise of green and warmth soon. For now, we (my little girl and I) gaze at the puddles – waiting for our next chance to go jump.
Beautiful FQ pack! Outside my window is spring in Los Angeles, which looks remarkabley like winter, fall and summer in Los Angeles.
the view from my window shows all of the leaves that came down after I cleaned up the yard and that are waiting for me to take away! ahhh
The view from my window changes with the hours…I should know I have been sitting at this computer for hours! This morning was so bright and promising, then rain, then hail, now things are dry again and there is a slight tease of the sun behind A LOT of clouds. Such is Oregon weather! And I love every second.
The stormy, grey skies of Seattle are out my window. I can feel the sun coming in from the other window….it may be time to go outside and check for a rainbow.
Great combinations in this pack. I love it.
Out my window I can see my pool (which we remodeled a few years ago) and we are starting to see all of our flowers come back:) We have it planted in a tropical forest way so it is always fun to see what comes back!
Outside my window? Well this week it’s been raining and raining and raining, but it’s a lot better than the snow I was soo tired of the snow. So when you look outside you can see onto teh front porch, cluttered of course with millions of things a large family tends to forget on the porch
Then just beyond that is the lawn, the grass is starting to come up, the tulips are creeping out of their winter slumber and starting to show thier leaves. Theres, birds and squirrels on the hunt for bulbs, and bugs. The Birds are also collecting the dead dry grass for their nests. Right now it’s after dinner, and the light is starting to dim, and the street is quiet, with everyone home resting after a long week at work.
I live on the Central Coast of California. Most days of the year I would report a dry, arid landscape. However, for 4-6 weeks in early Spring we enjoy lush green hills and wildflower covered valleys. You caught me at just the right time. The view from here? Spectacular.
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Blue skies, green trees, and the sound of traffic on the highway. A bit of crispness still in the air from the near frost this morning. It’s Autumn down here
we have had a long winter in Wisconsin, but the snow is gone now and from my window I can see the grass near the pine trees greening up a bit and there are lots of funny robins hopping around, trying to dodge the crows (who always crowd in to get all the seeds) We have even had a squirrel which is unusual for our neighborhood and it is driving the dog nuts!
have a great day, thanks for the contest chance!
Tracey
Alicia’s blog is great and her fabric selection is outstanding. The view from my window includes lots of green grass, but not much else that is green! The trees are trying, but since it was blowing snow yesterday, methinks they are being cautious!
View today was rainy which i love (right now it’s dark). That’s when you know spring is here. When it stops snowing and starts raining. I’d love to do a special project with those fat quarters. I’m originally from Oregon, now living on the other side of the states. Yummy choices.
here in the burbs of chicago my view is of rain that washes away the salt on the streets, my garden thawing and spurting small patches of crabgrass, and the sky clearing ever so briefly to let the sun kiss the earth
I over look a hotel swimming pool and garden to the left and a 20 concrete apt. building to the right. I live in “downtown” Beijing and enjoy city living. If I could look the other direction in my apt. I would see a canal with willows trees starting to bud. I like that and often walk or run there to get out of the city.
Everything featured at this site is so pretty. I wish I had enough money to buy more…
The view from my window this week is of two barn swallows trying to build a nest on my back porch for the third year in a row. The last two years we watched the babies grow up and fly away.
I live in Minneapolis, where early April doesn’t look so much like spring as it looks like the absence of winter. If you are lucky. Outside the window of my little “treehouse” bedroom I can see the roofs of neighboring houses, blessedly free of snow, the bare branches of the trees and an elderly neighbour out for a stroll in his spring jacket. More importantly, I can hear the birds singing.
From my window I can see a grey and cold day and some trees blowing in the wind. I live in Melbourne, Australia and we are edging closer to Autumn. I love the colours in this collection, they are very…hopeful. Which is something well needed in Victoria after the awful bushfires earlier this year. I have never lived anywhere where I have been so grateful for rain instead of worrying how I will get wet when I go outside!
The view out my window right now is somewhat optomistic. Our year round view is of a concerte courtyard and other patios. But it is a beautiful view as the sun is shining and the foot of now that has been permanent fixture on our patio is now gone.
Today, out my window I see trees blowing in the wind, which is typical for Southern Idaho. I see fat robins sitting on the fence posts. I see the grey and white pigeons that have decided to make our backyard their own. I see our miniature donkey pawing up fresh pasture grass shoots. I see our 15 year old + outside mutt sleeping in the sun with his best friend, our three-legged goat named Daisy. I see a little blue sky mixed with a lot of big thunder clouds. I see my hubby’s new plans for our backyard that include planter boxes made from recycled leaf-cutter bee boards filled with herbs, lilacs, lavender, sun-loving flowers and veggies.
Have a great day!
Donnelly
Loevly, Love the concept of looking out your window for inspiration.
how pretty I love the combinations I am always so afraid to mix designers,
I live in a little New England town. Today it has been raining cats and dogs! Right now outside I see lots of fog! Thick as pea soup. This past week, we have had some crocus and daffodil popping up! I love Alicia’s picks.
What do I see from my window?
Usually a lovely garden. Today, two ginormous storage containers waiting to be filled on my neighbor’s driveway…
Man, you have a lot of readers – congratulations on an amazing thing! This time of year in Vancouver, BC I look out my window to lush green grass (don’t get to jealous, it is 60% moss), 6″ of daffodil and tulip greens, many purple, white and yellow crocuses, the bare limbs of my apple and pear trees and my lovely weathered grey cedar garden shed. Thanks for this spectacular set Alicia!
These are so beautiful! Right up my fiber alley!
My view is much like Alicia’s since we live in the same place! My street is lined with the ubiquitous but lovely pink and white flowering plums and they are in full bloom right now. Thanks for the giveaway! I need some April inspiration!
The view from my window here in Maine is gray and muddy. I didn’t really see the beauty in it (other than the fact that it isn’t snow!) until I took my preschool son outside- he adores mud and sticks and for him our entire backyard is filled with adventure.
Uhhh, you don’t want to know about the bleakness I’m seeing here in Utah…makes for great sewing time, though.
well, lately it’s been raining buckets up here in Seattle (not to mention the SNOW in that rain on April Fools’ Day – not funny, Mother Nature), but it’s almost as if the skies knew we needed a little break on Friday, and today we broke out into sun. It’s about 6 o’clock right now and as we slide into evening, the light is kissing my neighbour’s white birches with gold, way up high (no catkins nor leaves to block the view) on those bare branches, and they’re shining against a beautiful blue sky mottled with those lovely white-and-grey clouds that I missed SO MUCH while I was in SoCal for the last two years.
I confess, I don’t much mind the rain, not even the pouring-buckets-rain we’ve been getting, especially if there’s a sunny Friday as a reward.
I just saw a guy on a unicycle roll by my window. I think he was a commuter too!
I love this time of year in Colorado. Well, tomorrow we’re supposed to get a huge snowstorm, but today it was sunny and in the 60s.
I recently found your website and I’m loving it!
Puddles drying after days of rain… lime green, baby Japanese maple leaves… dogwoods in bloom looking like white eyelet petticoats… tender shoots of new grass reaching for the sky… damp fern fronds starting to unfurl.
Outside my window: tumble weeds, creosote, swaying pine trees, cedar fencing, power lines, pigeons, blowing sand and a big blue sky.
Autumn is slowly coming Downunder, the days are getting shorter and the mornings a little cooler – thank goodness! Out my window I see the leaves on the Crepe Myrtles across the road are just starting to change colour – they are one of the few deciduous trees in the sub-tropics and they keep me linked with the change of seasons. Having grown up in the cooler south, I miss Nature’s seasonal changes so am glad to have these trees to see everyday.
Daffodils, heads drooping under a heavy coating of spring snow; spunky little pansies show through in spots touched by the occasional ray of sun; trees still awaiting warmer days for their buds to show – these from my window seen.
Alicia’s Oregon Spring fabric line is fantastic. She does have a way with color, design, detail. Thank you for spreading her talents.
It’s Spring here in southern Ontario and today it rained throughout the entire day. I got totally soaked when I went out for groceries, but the rest of the day I was able spend making some spring coloured beaded jewelery. The perfect combination – cold and grey outside – warm and bright inside.
Karen
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Lots of birdfeeders….lots of little birdies to feed! Blossoming dogwood, cherry & plum trees…..looks like spring but still feels like winter!
The view out of my window in the Blue Ridge mountains at this time of year is something I look foreward to all winter long. The grass is losing the brown winter color and starting to turn green. The daffodils are in bloom; the forsythia is a yellow riot of blooms. Tulips are beginning to show color. I am waiting for the trees to leaf out again. I love the springtime.
Outside my window I can see my pink snapdragons flourishing and I’m wondering how to thin them. Need to look that up. I also see the startings of my new herb garden. I started cilantro from seed. Then today I bought stevia, rosemary, and basil to go in there too. And I bought tomatoes and strawberries to plant. I love spring! I enjoyed Alicia’s photos from her walk. There are some really pretty gardens in her neighborhood.
I love that you’re having some guests put together fat quarter packs. Great idea!
Outside my window there is a beautiful blue sky! Cactus are starting to bloom in beautiful colors of bright pink, yellow, pale pink and white. Hummingbirds are fluttering by, stopping to look for nectar in the beautifully colored flowers. The quail are running by in a row, with mom in the front of the line, little ones in a row behind, usually around eight or so, and dad standing watch off to the side. Nearby, a linx is wandering by, looking for his breakfast. A short while later, a couple of furry little bunnies hop out from their little den dug under the rosemary plant under my dining room window. They’re only a few days old, about 4″ in size.
A beautiful time of the year in the Sonoran desert!
What a great fat quart combination. I would love to win that, and her book looks great.
I have beautiful daffodils and hyacinth blooming!
After all the rain we’ve had in Georgia, it doesn’t matter which window I’m looking through, all I see are a hundred shades of green! I love seeing the variations from the deep green of the pine needles to the lighter spring green in the trees flush with new growth.
My view into the backyard is very peaceful. Trees in bloom with cherry blossums and green buds. Spring promises inspiration new fabrics to make cute clothing for my little fancy.
my neighbors big house and my tree in the front yard that needs pruning…oh and a squirrel…with some sort of nut!!!!!
It’s a beautiful autumn morning here in Australia. Outside my window I can see my virginia creeper turning scarlett red, my crabapple tree’s vivid yellow leaves dropping to the ground, and my lime green elm tree hanging on to it’s leaves for dear life! My husband is doing his autumn prune and will be raking leaves later. This is my favourite time of the year – everything is fresh and clean and readying itself for winter, and the new life in spring.
Beautiful fabric collection! The view from my window is of the orchards, that will hopefully be blooming soon!
I always read your blog while taking a break at work, so my view is of the street leading up to the train station. I really like it this time of year because you get to see all the people walking along in clothes that are suitable for the warmer weather, which always reminds me that spring is here and summer is just around the corner.
Today my view is of rain – wonderful, wonderful rain! It might sound depressing, but it is a wonderful sight after a very long, hot and dry summer. It’s officially autumn, although it doesn’t fell like it, summer is stretching on and on
my fave view from the window is my single pot that i plant each year. i love to watch the sun shining on my flowers!
I love every single one of those prints. Wouldn’t they make such a cute sun bonnet quilt for a little girl?
Mine is of my back yard. Full of weeds I’m fighting but with some grass pushing through and 3 pear trees that just lost their beautiful white blooms. The fun part is watching my almost 1 year old boston terrior find a piece of trash that has blown into the yard due to the great amout of wind we are having, and take it and run like mad all over our 1/3 acre backyard. Often the piece she finds is almost as big as her. That doesn’t faze her though. She just puts her head higher in the air and runs as fast as she can! It’s a sight!
My favorite view from my window is my boys playing outside. I just love to sit and watch them make up all their games, often including our two dogs in the fun.
Out my window today were swirling dark clouds full of fat juicy rain drops. The rain started gently, but quickly became a torrent,and stopped as suddenly as if God decided to turn off a spigot. The sun peeked through the clouds. The palm trees glistened with their rain drop jewels. Birds flew about in the clear skies. Ah, but outside my window is coastal Florida; new rain clouds roll into view. They too share their gift of water. As they often do in Springtime.
Not so much sun today in sunny Huntington Beach, California. My yard is all purples right now….tons of sweet peas, a trellis with wisteria in full bllom and a pot with purple clematis & nemesia.
The view from my window here in Texas is darkened now, but just a bit ago I was watching a palm tree sway in the breeze while my dogs rolled and played in the needs-to-be-mowed grass.
I live in Seoul and when I look out the window, I see the cherry blossom trees and the magnolias in bloom. An absolutely beautiful view in Korea!! Lisa
I live on the side of a hill in the Texas Hill Country, and as I sit at my computer blogging, I am seeing crisp, clear blue sky, the sunny golds, rusts and ambers of the native grasses waving in the breeze, the soft sage green of the shrubby cedars that are dotted about the hills, and I am delighted by the hawks that continually practice their circular ballet, directly above my computer screen.
I saw some punk kids skateboarding out front flipping off cars as they drove by. Annoying.
Luckily we have loads of sun all year round, even when it’s freezing cold outside. This time of year the robins return and rummage for worms. It’s nice to see them amongst the sparrows, various finches, and woodpeckers.
looking out my window right now it’s pretty dark here in Ohio…but earlier today — to look out my window it was cloudy, rainy and very windy. It was so nice though to see my tulips, daffodils and magnolias are blooming this week!
I have a wall of floor to ceiling windows that face South. This is a good thing in a mother-in-law apartment in WA state! I have a smallish yard, which abruptly drops off into a fairly steep ravine. At any given time, there could be the feral kitty, a few chickens, squirrels, crows, jays, small birds, a horse, a sheep or one of the goats that lives on the property wandering through my yard. The ravine is filled with towering trees of different varieties, and one rather tenacious bush of some kind that’s the earliest leaving thing in my field of view. It’s fabulous, and I enjoy making offerings or leaving small treats for the kitty on a three-armed stump that’s right near the edge of my “yard”. It’s the reason I decided to live where I do, and I love how the changes of the seasons are so very apparent from my seat at the window.
I love all things polka-dotted…especially fabrics. Would love to win!
The view from my window today included four deer–elegant, proud creatures. Perfect colorways.
Rainy, rainy, rainy. But it’s not snow! That’s something.
As I sit at the dining room table typing away, I see a burst of yellow outside my window; a forsythia bush leading the way for spring in south central PA.
Oh! I Love Alicia’s blog and visit weekly! She has such wonderful ideas and insights. I love the collection of yummy fabrics she put together. The view out my window today was thankfully a springish one. Leaves budding on the trees, dogwoods with their pink and white flowers. The fat robin birds keep flitting around gathering things for their nests. It’s almost time for babies! The wind has been slightly blowing the naked branches on my backyard trees and I’ll be so thankful when they are once again full of green leaves and swinging around like a girl flipping her long hair. Tomorrow promises to be a gorgeous 68 degrees which is a far cry from last Saturday’s snowstorm. Go figure. It’s just the way Missouri is. Always changing.
My view is a wonderful night sky here in Texas after a beautiful day.
I love the view out my window these days! We’ve had some beautiful weather here in Arkansas. That means my girls can go out to PLAY!!! Everything has popped out green this last week. Hostas are peeking out along with the elephant ears. (This is all wonderful except for the layer of green pollen on our cars every morning… ugh, allergies) My favorite view out the window…Z rolling in the sand box and A “just a swingin’”.
Unfortunately there is not a very pretty picture from my window at the moment. I live in South Australia and we are currently having a drought and everything is brown and dry and dead. The lawn is dying as we have water restrictions and I dont think it is that important to waste water on a green lawn. It is the end of summer too so it is extra dry. I am very jealous of the people that can look out their windows and see rain. Good thing I try to keep the inside of my house slightly colourful.
The view from my window today was beautiful…it is a cool spring day in MN with a bright blue sky. Looking out my kitchen window we have a great backyard, but I see my garage, since we have an ally. The grass is still a winter brown color, but I can’t wait to see it green again. It has been a long winter.
The view this time of year is beautiful in Atlanta. Dogwoods, Azaleas and fresh new green buds and leaves, tulips and daffodils are all breathtaking…
I live in Kauai and it’s beautiful and sunny and in the mid-seventies. The Shaman birds are singing like crazy, the plumeria tree is gently bobbing in the tradewinds, and the smell of puakenikeni is drifting up from below my window. All my windows are open and I’m wearing a T-shirt, homemade skirt and bare feet. A few puffy clouds drify by. Gee…I’m glad you made me look out my window today!
The view from my window is a lot of snow. We get snow for a day, sunshine the next day the melts it all, then the day after some more snow. We have had a very wet (from snow) spring which is wonderful we need the moisture in this drought we have been having.
BTW, love the fabrics.
I see wistaria vines, wrapped around pink jasmine and the lemon tree all blooming, full of bees and smelling like heaven.
Love ALICIA so much!
deb
usually i browse my morning reads from my living room couch, so i look out to my back patio. I can see the sky [no trees on this side] and today was a bluebird sunny day with a few pouffy white clouds. perfect spring weather, finally, as until now it has been decidedly grey and dreary.
I live in a West Coast apartment that is tiny but never mind because of the view, which overlooks a long sloping hill covered, right now, in green mossy slopes and in pink and white blossoming trees, and one palm tree. After several years in the prairies, with 7 months of white and a month of dirty slush, every glance out the window at this time of year is an intense pleasure. And when I get tired of the trees, I look up just a few inches and see the ocean in the distance–tankers and sailboats too.
Meanwhile….on the other side of the world … my eyes peer out of my window upon a garden that has welcomed Autumn. The iceberg roses are giving up their last flush of blooms…the leaves of the Japanese Maple are beginning to turn a delicious red colour….and drop leaves into the sandpit below. The grass is becoming more lush as it wakes each morning to a drink of dew….The pool is bereft of children laughing and splashing ..too cool now… the family of magpies are digging for worms….. All is good….. but would be even better with some of those gorgeous fat quarters !!
today, driving my son home from school i couldn’t help but notice all the spring colors. this time of year you can almost hear the plants growing. the palo verde trees are the brightest shade of yellow and in full bloom, lantana are abundant and radiate beautiful hues of yellow, orange, pink and red. the view out my back window is equally breath taking. as i sit and type on my laptop i can look out a bay of windows to see my 3 chickens pecking in the green grass with the blossoming orange trees behind them. the geraniums are bright and red and always make me smile. i love this time of year.
Alicia’s blog was one of the first ones I discovered on the web…
Love her inspiration that she shares with us!!!
We have a six-foot-tall pile of snow where it was pushed up while clearing the driveway, but the rest of the snow is starting to get patchy because the rain has washed it away. There’s no green grass yet, though, only the remains of last year’s. We have quite a few birds right now, and one robin likes to sit on the windowsill and tap on the window.
The view from my window is a tattered concrete corridor surrounded by brick walls on three sides. The west wall, however, does not extend forward all the way to my window, but opens up to look over a courtyard where a children’s playground sits between the connecting building and mine. I can’t see the children because I am several floors above but I can always hear them singing and laughing when they come out to play.
In addition to the voices of children, the seasons play out in the brick corridor and along the brick wall where the connecting buildings open up. The sun has a beautiful way of illuminating this corridor and when the snow comes it swirls around my window and then pushes back against the farthest reach of this outdoor hallway only to rise back up into the sky and atop the building.
I do not look directly onto a natural setting like trees that would keep time as the seasons change – but that is the part for my imagination to fill in. The corridor out my window gives all the supporting cast as the time passes and allows just enough missing detail for my mind to stay active creating the rest.
Everything is green and blooming I love this time of year. There are flowers everywhere and birds and lots of green.
A rainy rainy day here in Ottawa, although it’s night now. Winds were up around 60 km an hour, too, so even though it was a bit miserable for a good part of the day, i could watch the tiny patch of snow that’s left in my yard get washed away . Take that, winter!
Lovely selection!
across the street sits an immaculate late 19th cent. home…lovely
We’ve been having some unseasonably cold and windy days. So my view is grass trying to peek out from under the snow and swings swaying in the too cold wind. Makes me glad to be inside.
The view from my window today… Airplane window, actually. Boise ID to Salt Lake City UT. 6:40 pm MT… dark lowering clouds, threatening grey skies, mountain tops far below us dusted with snow (or is that powdered sugar?), winter yellow landscapes in hues of dark butter, faded goldenrod and browns, spots of dark green from winter evergreens, and way over there… blue sky peeking back at us.
There’s the front yard with the most atrociously bad smelling flowers in them. Beyond the fence is the street, where the neighbour parks his car. Mornings are nice – there’s the hustle and bustle of them shuttling the kids off to school.
What a beautiful set of fabrics, I love the color combinations. The view from my window is of my town of Petaluma, CA. We live on a hill so we have a nice view out the window, blue skies, green leaves of my loquat tree, black birds sitting on telephone wires, yellow flowering weeds in all the yards from the recent rain. In the distance I can see the two bell towers of the church downtown and the red brick of nearby buildings. It’s a really lovely day here.
I’ve been reading Alicia’s blog for years. I was born and raised in Portland so I can really identify with her photos.
My window view at Willow’s Cottage in Southern California is of my two terrace garden which includes my herb garden with mint, parsley and rosemary, tomato plants= so many shades of green! Creamy yellow and orange poppies. Purple and white osteospermum. Lavender. Iceberg roses and white allysum. Spring looks like a rainbow!
Overgrown grass that needs cutting! Its all I see! And I HATE it!
Forgot to tell you my view, I live in Australia, in a town south of Sydney. My view to the northwest is of green dairy fields backdropped by a dark escarpment that looks blue from the eucalypt trees & distance, it has patches of exposed orangey rock. To the east is a large landlocked salt water lake which is backdropped by the ocean. The weather today is dark & gloomy, it has been quite windy today and the temperatures are dropping foreshadowing the change to autumn.
We had the most beautiful spring day today in the Low Country of South Carolina. Outside my window I saw the Spanish Moss hanging from the Live Oaks with bright blue skies and the horses grazing in the paddock. Gorgeous.
In Sydney, Australia it is currently Autumn and so the view outside my window is beginning to involve many more leaves on the ground as well as fallen flowers from my frangipani tree. Mine is a small backyard in the inner city so there is not a lot of fauna but yesterday I was so excited to see (and photograph) two beautiful rainbow lorikeets feasting on the nectar from the fiery red bottle brush tree.
Cheers!
The view from my window is of approaching autumn. The garden is looking tired, the leaves are just beginning to get that slightly yellow tinge that precedes full-blown autumn colours – well as much as we get here in Auckland
There is a dahlia looking startlingly pink at the back of the garden, a couple of late-blooming pale pink St. Swithins roses, and a beautiful red geranium climbing up through another white rose. It may be a tired garden, but it’s still doing its best.
Yesterday it was snowing, today it was raining, tomorrow is supposed to be sunny.
It is black out my window. There are no birds chirping or wind to speak of. I have been sewing. It is our Friday night sew at out shop and so we always try to eek every last minute of time out. So by the time I looked…just the ink blackness in night with a promise of hope in the morning! Please count me in the drawing…I love it!
My window: The cat leaps out onto the red shed roof, under the metal trellis that makes me feel like I live inside the Eiffel Tower. The light shifts, and calico turns into silhouette against a purpled mackerel sky. Unsettled weather.
I live in a bungalow on a hillside in southern california and a huge front window. My view is so beautiful. I see the hillside covered with california bungalows and spanish cottages, adorned with red and pink bougainvilleas, daylillies, roses, sunflowers, blossoming fruit trees, and lots of jasmine vines. In a month, the three huge jacaranda trees across the street will bloom and frame my window in beautiful purple blossoms. Both our cats and the dog sit by the window and birdwatch, or swat the windows in mock chase of butterflies. We are blessed here.
my window looks out onto the neighbours garage, which isn’t very exciting at all. but my cat sofie thinks it’s very exciting, especially when moths bang against the glass or when it snows (which it did on april 1st! happy april fool’s day in the PNW!). she likes to try to catch things through the glass, and she sits at the window for hours every day, watching things that i can’t see. she reminds me to watch for the little things!
the fabric bundle is SO beautiful. i love alicia paulson’s blog and book – she too reminds me to watch for the little things in life!
The view from my window is of blue sky, daffodills and washing drying on the line!
I loved looked at this collection on Alicia’s blog.
Out my window is New Zealand summer trying to hold on as long as possible… today has been blue skies but in the shadows a crisp autumn air is trying to bite. In the garden we are getting ready to plant bulbs in preparation for spring!
Such lovely colours in this pack ! The view from my window ? Our tiny , wedge-shaped back yard with faded terracotta painted walls , 2 bicycles , loads of tiny yellow and purple pansies in pots and last year’s Christmas tree , also thriving in its pot . Later in the year, I won’t see much of this as the tomato vines grow a mile a minute .
Well, that’s an awfully optimistic way of viewing our life right now in the Pacific NW, but oh well. The pack is lovely, even if the outside is not.
Blue sky, dirt soccer pitch, and tall green African tree.
My Nebraska view is straight north and the fields are still brown as we have not had a green-up yet. Snow is expected this weekend, and moisture of any kind is always a welcome gift!
The West Vrginia hills are starting to come alive with SPRING! The view out my window are the mountains starting to shed the winter chill and new life rising in the trees and mountainside. Small buds are popping on the trees creating a beauty that only spring can give us. Flowers are rising out of the ground a sure sign that brighter sunnier days lay ahead for us. Looking at the mountains turn from a bleak dull gray to bursting with colors of spring is a view that I can never get enough of. Springtime inspires me to look for new crafting ideas, especially new fabrics to tranform into something that I can say “I made that”.
When I look out my sewing room windows here in NSW Australia, I see gum trees. Lots and lots, in fact a National Park of gum trees and bush. The Blue Mountains National Park is bigger than Wales. And thats what I see outside my windows. And the mist has been rolling around all day…white out, broken by the sparkle of red and blue parrots swooping past every now and again.
What do I see? A Sydney Autumn morning. The weather is still warm but the light slightly less intense. The evergreen eucalypts are as ever evergreen! The occasional deciduous tree is turning ever so slightly red. The light sparkles on Sydney Harbour.
The view from my window is so nice right now. I can see the row houses on my street as usual, but the best part is the bright green grass in my front yard and little white daisies popping up everywhere in the grass. And the rogue daffodils that grew in the garden, even though we didn’t plant them!
my view is way up high on the mountain, on one side i can see down the coast, on the other i can see my two children up the eucalyptus, silky oak, macadamia, and jacaranda trees. all is very very green after our 6inches of rain in two days!
we had our first rain in 6 weeks yesterday but still the view is pretty dry, although the large tree in our back yard is still green and full of cockatoos. Canberra in autumn is usually a lovely place maybe next year it will look slightly more like portland (wish, wish, wish).
This time of year, I see mostly bare trees, grass and the street. I can’t wait until all the leaves grow back everything is green again, it’s like living in a tree house.
From my mid-Missouri window the sun is just beginning to come up and a light frost is covering the clumps of grass that has not had a first mow this season. A few birds have began their morning song.
Wow! beautiful fq-combo! From my FL window I can see a pool ready for the little ones to enjoy and sky beginning to lighten up this morning!
My favorite view is from our kitchen window that overlooks our backyard. Everything is green; the blossoming trees are pink and white; the forsythia is in bloom. The birds are busy in our fallow garden, finding treats to eat and carrying away bits and pieces for their nests. Beyond the garden is our bluebird house, and this year’s brilliantly-colored residents are busy getting it ready to their liking.
Spring is when creative inspiration strikes me the most intensely. I am constantly dreaming up new and wonderful projects. I never have enough time to create more than a few of my lofty ideas…but there is so much enjoyment even in the dreaming!
We are lucky to have great views all year round. At the moment I can still see the river but with spring arriving my view will get greener and soon that wiil be all I see
My daughter playing on her swing set, on the lovely green lawn that my husband has painstakingly encouraged from a tiny patch, to cover the whole backyard. Lovely!
Here in PA the view from my window is “windy”. I have a suet feeder hanging right oustide the window and we have 4 different varieties of woodpeckers that visit it all day. Right now they are hanging on extra tight while they snack cause the wind is blowing the feeder around.
Spring takes her time reaching the shores of Lake Superior. After months of deep snow and below zero temps, we can finally see some bare ground. The hope this brings to us is amazing. Those of us that live up here truly enjoy the warm weather, flowers, the outdoors, for the months we have it.
This morning in Cincinnati, Ohio it is sunny, clear and actually a bit crisp. The birds are busy in my garden snagging dried twigs from herbs to use in their nests. A woodpecker is busy at the peanut feeder. There is a bit of frost on the herbs, but we are expecting close to 60 degrees. The view is actually quite nice.
the view from the northeast window:
framed by lace curtains and marmelade cats we see: a sky marbled with with long, swollen dove-grey clouds and slate, steel and persian blues. dark bare fingered trees are reaching for the pale, diluted light; some tinted red, others chartruese with the promise of tiny buds. the lawn is ragged and tired, a matted straw bed hilited with green. And in the bare garden, giant, dark grape purple croci bravely nod closed balloon heads, while their tinier, dainty pale purple and yellow cousins stand ramrod straight, petals tightly wrapped: it’s too cold. nearby, some daffodils are still, with herculean effort, are pushing poking through the dirt: mounds of pebbles and dirt heaved to one side. Others are already tall sentrys, yellow petals sealed in slender points, watching, waiting for the perfect day for the frilly, bonneted, explosion…
love the alicia paulson mix! – mari
I believe it is sunny outside as I can hear the birds chattering.
Alas, all I can see it the huge flattened cardboard box that is covering my window until the new one and a blind are fitted.
Happy Saturday xxx
This morning in NC the sky is an intense blue and cloudless; the grass as intense a green and the wheeping cherry tree outside my window in full bloom. The trees are full of cardinals, sparrows, chicadees and an occasional woodpecker so the view is full of song. Alice’s choices of fabrics closely mirror the colorful beauty that surrounds me here.
I love the view outside my window; it’s mostly treetops as our house sits on the top of a hill in a wooded area. This time of year the trees are still bare, but we’re starting to see little pops of color as spring arrives–hopefully soon, though we’re looking at more snow over this weekend!
The view from my Ohio window this morning is the rare glimpse of sunshine warming the little bits of green popping up. Little buds on the trees, daffodils & hyacinths just starting to bloom with the woods as a backdrop. No leaves on the trees, so I can see far into the woods and see many little critters scampering about. And a bright blue sky, making it a beautiful day & I am going outside to enjoy it!
I’m in Tuscany right now, spending time with my parents for Easter… the village is in the hills and the moment we’re hiding amongst the clouds. The sun is trying to burn through the clouds and the light is a lovely grey/yellow…
My neighbors’ and my backyards are homes to numerous trees that are just now starting to bud and bloom. The redbud we planted four years ago is now grown up enough to sprout beautiful purpley-pink flowers… it’s perched in the corner of our backyard and is truly gorgeous with the lush green grass that’s in the field behind it. Needless to say, the view from window is spectacular.
Thanks for the opportunity.
The view from my window this sunny Florida morning is spectacular. The sun is shining and there are some light clouds overhead. My grass is green and so healthy looking from the recent rains and my hydrangeas are in full bloom. They vary from that deep bluish purple to the light purple pink. My shrubs are blooming and there are white flowers popping up on them. The jasmine has that waxy green look and flowers are starting to sprout.
As I sit in my old wicker chair I am reminded of the beauty of God’s world.
I would love to win the pack… I am a big Alicia Paulsen fan…
My Mango tree’s the first thing i see when i look out the window, can;t wait for it to bear fruits this year. we had a killing harvest in 2008
The view from my window right now is a lovely spring day – i’m going to go for a run now!
I’m in Glasgow Scotland and currently there is a rainy veiw (shock!) from my window, but the daffodils and hyacinths are out, the burning bush is on fire and my willow tree is a beautiful spring green. Spring is definitely in the air!
The views from my the windows in my workroom are always wonderful, but today is a perfect English April day. To the front through the dormer window the sun is shining onto the top of the Malvern Hills and high above the trees just coming into leaf I can see a procession of tiny walkers going along the path at the ridge – black against a blue sky and white clouds. Further to the right a group of hang-gliders are getting ready to fly so later the sky will be full of coloured sails.
From my back window, through the branches of a very tall pine tree my view opens up across pink brown and red roof tops and many shades of green and brown trees and shrubs over the Severn Valley to the edge of the Cotswolds in a patchwork of misty blues and greens and greys. All the spring colours waiting to be captured in a quilt!
So lovely. I can’t wait to play!
Daffodils! I see daffodils! There is hope for spring yet.
Looking out my window, I see my recently built vegetable garden, shivering, from the delicate layer of snow blanketing it’s surface. When it’s this cold outside, I’m motivated to cook and sew for the upcoming Easter holiday, and say heck with the family business bookkeeeping that need to get done.
This time of year in Miami Beach, it’s getting H-O-T! But the sunny beaches are always beautiful to look at. Lots of spring-breakers in miniskirts and bikini tops wandering the streets. ah…the uniqueness of South Beach.
I love this fat quarter pack. oh, so pretty.
Love, love, love this pattern pack!!! The view from my window changed from rain to lovely sun and a breeze blowing through the trees today. More important to me is the sound I hear from my windows each morning, the spring birds singing their waking up songs!
The view from my window in Boulder, CO is of the Flatiron Mountains, and at this time of year, they can either be snow covered crags or warm, sunny peaks. Currently, they are mysteriously shrouded in clouds as we get yet another snow storm (though it’s threatening to turn to rain).
From my desk window I can see the last of the camellias, the tail end of the daffodils, the middle of the pink jasmine, and the first of the roses. (Now you know why I moved my desk here!).
The fabric is lovely!
My home office backs to a steep ridge of open space in Colorado. Stones, pines, scrub oak. My eyes constant catch motion, which could be birds, squirrels or foxes. The deer have paths and cozy nap places criss-crossing the area, and I often look up to see three or four deer laying around under a tree, looking back at me. They are so unafraid.
And no, I don’t live in the mountains, but only minutes from downtown Colorado Springs. Welcome to Colorado! The other side of the house looks out at Pikes Peak.
I took the coolest photos from our window a couple of weeks ago. One Sunday it snowed heavy here in Georgia and my red barn bird feeder had a redbird feeding from it during the snow. Then the very next Sunday the tree was covered in white blossoms with a wren feeding at it. I framed the pictures side by side. Just a beautiful reminder of Georgia weather.
Out my front windows, across the street is a garden, which is pretty amazing in the city. The woman who owns the garden has been living there for 40 years, or something like that and takes fierce pride in her garden and the street in general. It’s so refreshing to look across the street and see trees and grass and flowers, as opposed to someone’s apartment windows.
oh the view from my window right now is windy and rainy! and i am ready for sunshine!