While I was in Toronto, I saw my niece’s lego flowers. She had three bouquets on her buffet, two were real flowers, the third was constructed from lego. From a distance it was hard to tell them apart.

An inveterate puzzle doer, I was taken by the challenge of putting the flowers together so I ordered myself two kits. As soon as they arrived, I couldn’t refrain from opening each box and start assembling the flowers.

The boxes come with two books of instructions – that should tell you something.

Making up the flowers is not easy. I started at the first flower in the book – the lavender. The pieces are tiny and clicking them together (no tools but fingers) proved somewhat difficult, particularly since as I tried building the flower stalk it wouldn’t stay together (after working on a number of flowers, I hauled out my tube of gorilla glue and stuck the intransigent joins together). However, I finally managed to assemble the two lavender stalks.

I moved on to the two alliums – those were easier because the tiny flowers fit the pedicles firmly.

It took me four days to construct all the flowers. I’d been immersed in the puzzle to the exclusion of just about everything else – an enjoyable challenge.

Once done, I was able to come back to the quilt.

I have nowhere to put the vase of flowers. At the moment it’s sitting on my kitchen island raised counter. I’ll probably just give them away in the end.