Push open the gate on this one and you land in a watercolor vegetable patch: little framed squares of carrots, radishes, beets, peas, and leafy greens, all painted in soft washes and set behind wine-plum frames like tiny windows into somebody's summer garden. Those framed veggies float on a roomy checkerboard of periwinkle blue and cream, connected by skinny burgundy stems so the blocks link up like plants staked in tidy rows. A speckled green inner border and a crisp green-and-white sawtooth edge fence the whole plot in. The quilting is the Flowing Waters pattern, gentle wavy lines undulating across the top (soft undulating ripples, like a sprinkler just passed over the beds) that keep everything calm and growing. Purple Hyacinth thread ties it together, plum against the cream and blue so the stitches echo those little frames. A quiet, green-thumbed sort of quilt.
