When I started playing with these trumpet flower designs I had never seen a real flower, but a friend has given me some cuttings after I saw them in her garden, so maybe next year I will have the real thing to admire. I will probably redraw the designs too with a real live model as reference.
In the meantime, when I am not tending the garden variety, I must add some quilting motifs to the block collection, and maybe change the leaf shape to something similar tot he real thing.
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