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July 5, 2025
A fresh cabbage from Bizarre Quilter

 I was inspired by this home grown cabbage and the photo of it, grown and photographed by my friend Melissa Roy-Hillier.


page 21 of 40 in my personal visual diary challenge



I love the different shades of green, and the way the veins appear in different lights.


Green is my favourite colour, I love the beads of water on here, the slight purple with the greens. What a great colour palette for any drawing.




There's something about cabbages. I'm very inspired by them.




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January 12, 2024
Finishing the Quilted Base from From My Carolina Home

My project for National Quilting Day is a still life wall hanging. I completed the piecing of the top, and loaded it on the longarm to quilt. The idea is for the white quarter-square triangles to look like patterned wallpaper. I did the stand-and-stare for a bit, then dove in with the same quilting design I have used before.

I began with the QSTs, doing continuous curves in the blocks. I was going to stop at this point, but the seam lines puffed out with the quilting, so I decided to stitch in the ditch, too.

Using my little straight-edge ...

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added by Carole @ From My Carolina Home 1 year, 5 months ago. under applique , challenge , national quilting day , quilting , still life (Comments)
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