{"id":1204,"date":"2012-07-05T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:04:23","slug":"day-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Day Lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Day Lilies could speak, what stories they could tell. Maybe this is why their blooms last for just a day, secrets must be kept&nbsp; &#8211; so sad. I have two beautiful patterns from two very talented designers using the day lily stitch.&nbsp; Here is Day Lily Shawl from Judy Marples. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6_mPvUmDTbbOTHJ-vYHXtZpWJjxslDj8VmHc-jleqC-hSRsSu0XEjhDBeEeuaBOrGazEKGeNjTFbphvBmyDIyIV1kqFWtk260OiUrV5TCGyIaqPU-HNj6930fqnCp5_xJp6MF\/s320\/daylily+Shawl.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg6_mPvUmDTbbOTHJ-vYHXtZpWJjxslDj8VmHc-jleqC-hSRsSu0XEjhDBeEeuaBOrGazEKGeNjTFbphvBmyDIyIV1kqFWtk260OiUrV5TCGyIaqPU-HNj6930fqnCp5_xJp6MF\/s320\/daylily+Shawl.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>and here is Lalique from FiberDreams<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lalique.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lalique.jpg\" width=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Both patterns use the day lily stitch differently.&nbsp; Judy&#8217;s shawl begins at the top so the stitch is reversed and Laura&#8217;s begins at the bottom, so the lilies seems to hang down or cascade.<\/p>\n<p>And here are my day lilies at dusk just before the end of their day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgY72-sLOD0S8XbbO_xblcSGr8kG4Gwt532GYJN2P1c726laFtMmZhOkTDhVYeSnGTlVoqf8kP_bCfuEcszGZe9WERE4f-bqUmddWNIUf4LGKb9ZGWCb_2mMG1TSJFkAX9QdWzS\/s320\/day+lily.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgY72-sLOD0S8XbbO_xblcSGr8kG4Gwt532GYJN2P1c726laFtMmZhOkTDhVYeSnGTlVoqf8kP_bCfuEcszGZe9WERE4f-bqUmddWNIUf4LGKb9ZGWCb_2mMG1TSJFkAX9QdWzS\/s320\/day+lily.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Actually the more I look at the two patterns above, the more I think that there may be two different stitches here or the designers have varied them.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t matter.&nbsp; I just love the fact that nature can be translated into so many different mediums (media).<\/p>\n<p>My day lily story is that I occasionally have people ask me when day lilies bloom.&nbsp; Well, depending on the colour,  they bloom at different times through out the spring and summer.&nbsp; I always used to tell people that the orange lilies, which seem to be the most common, bloomed on July 12th &#8211; Orangeman&#8217;s Day or the commemoration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Boyne\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of the Boyne<\/a> in Northern Ireland. Not everyone understood; but another friend of mine remembers being told that same story, when she was given a clump of orange liles. She said that she totally &#8220;freaked out&#8221; when the first flower opened on July 12.<\/p>\n<p>Sad to say that global warming has shifted our folk stories or maybe the &#8220;troubles&#8217; in Ireland are finally over, because this year my orange liles bloomed on June 12&#8230;.now I wonder what day that is?<\/p>\n<p>Have a blooming wonderful day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Day Lilies could speak, what stories they could tell. Maybe this is why their blooms last for just a day, secrets must be kept&nbsp; &#8211; so sad. I have two beautiful patterns from two very talented designers using the day lily stitch.&nbsp; Here is Day Lily Shawl from Judy Marples. and here is Lalique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}