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The Pantone Color of the Year is magenta.

For our 

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color 

post this week, LeeAnna has asked us how we feel about this year's color. 

Good question.

I have had to think some about what to answer.

At first I might have responded, "This is not one of my favorite colors."

When I thought more about I realized how very much this vibrant color 

has made its way into my garden, my sewing and my life. 

This is a color that is featured in my garden every year. 

It also pops up in ...

I have long maintained that flowers have little to no place in my work. I love flowers in a garden or a vase, but haven’t been drawn to them as subjects for my work. So, I was surprised that I based a piece now under construction on flowers, rhododendrons specifically. Each May I see the bold magenta floral clusters of those plants in the yards of the older houses in my neighborhood. I don’t know if they’ve gone out of fashion, but I don’t see them in newer developments. Of course, that color would give one ...