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7-14-18, 9:18am
iris lilies

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Originally Posted by rosarugosa

Those are beautiful, IL and your lilies are magnificent. Tell me, are you plagued by those little red lily-eating beetles in your neck of the woods? They have been a scourge up here for many years, but I don't believe I've seen any this year.

Red Lily Beetle is the scourge of the NE Lily growers.
including Canada. The beetle is moving our way, we (the lily society and horticulturists) are tracking it. It recently showed ip in, I think, Wisconsin? Likely carried by big box store products.

The North American Lily Society conference will be held in Boston next summer and we will get a chance to see it, I suppose.
7-14-18, 9:19am
iris lilies

Catherine, the poem about being in the moment is nice!
7-14-18, 11:41am
SteveinMN

Nice little pile of ribbons in that last picture, IL! Congratulations!
7-16-18, 5:45pm
KayLR

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Here are some things I do while watching baseball/tennis and trying to stay out of the kitchen:Attachment 2337 Attachment 2338 Attachment 2339
7-16-18, 5:49pm
catherine

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Originally Posted by KayLR

Here are some things I do while watching baseball/tennis and trying to stay out of the kitchen:Attachment 2337 Attachment 2338 Attachment 2339

So cute Kay! Are they your designs? I love them. Folk art in crewel!
7-16-18, 6:10pm
KayLR

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Originally Posted by catherine

So cute Kay! Are they your designs? I love them. Folk art in crewel!

No, not mine--I belong to an online stitchery club. I hadn't picked up needle and thread in a very long time, and just decided to take it back up in the past year.
7-16-18, 6:35pm
catherine

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Originally Posted by KayLR

No, not mine--I belong to an online stitchery club. I hadn't picked up needle and thread in a very long time, and just decided to take it back up in the past year.

Beautiful handiwork. I used to embroider but also haven't done it in ages.
7-16-18, 6:50pm
razz

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Originally Posted by catherine

Beautiful handiwork. I used to embroider but also haven't done it in ages.

+! I still use the runner I made for my dresser. Lovely to see it is still being done.
7-16-18, 7:56pm
rosarugosa

Lovely poem, Catherine and beautiful needlework, Kay!
7-16-18, 9:06pm
iris lilies

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Originally Posted by KayLR

Here are some things I do while watching baseball/tennis and trying to stay out of the kitchen:Attachment 2337 Attachment 2338 Attachment 2339

nice! I love the first one, a little village.
7-16-18, 9:09pm
Teacher Terry

Beautiful work!
7-18-18, 6:07pm
Polliwog

Catherine,
I love your poem!
Polliwog
12-13-18, 12:40pm
iris lilies

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Here is a collage I made for an upcoming meeting of flower show judges. Our assignment is to make a collage as defined in our handbook. There isnt much plant material on this paining, so we shall see what the group says about that in the critique.

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Edited to add: just when I think I have figured out how to load photos right side up, this software thwarts me.

Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I will say that this painting is a copy of one by Conn Ryder. I love her palette.
3-20-19, 1:24pm
iris lilies

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Flower show season has started. I won a few blue ribbons at the last show but this 2nd place design is the one I am most proud of. i made the spiralling thingies out of midellino. This is a damn fine design! If I do say so myself. It did place 2nd next to the best in show design, so there is that.

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The design type is “Reflective” which means shiney materials should be used. The theme was “yachting on the French
Riviera” so in my interpetation, the blue spirals were undulating waves of the Mediterranean sea.

Haha this is reaching, but I am capable of assigning an interpretation to just about any abstract thing, must be mynEnglish major training.

I really wanted to use the spiral products in this design, that was my main focus.
3-20-19, 9:51pm
flowerseverywhere

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I make sampler quilts, thousands of pieces. The brown one was last years quilt, called Farmers wife. I quilt my own on my domestic machine. The colorful one is this years, called Dear Jane. I am 2/3 done in this reproduction quilt. The original was done at the end of the civil war, in those colors. I have interpreted it in modern Kaffe Fasset prints.

In between i make charity quikts. 12 last year, one this year so far, with two more tops done. I lead a charity group and we have made a stack of blocks for charity that we will put together.
3-20-19, 10:07pm
iris lilies

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Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere

Attachment 2694 Attachment 2695

I make sampler quilts, thousands of pieces. The brown one was last years quilt, called Farmers wife. I quilt my own on my domestic machine. The colorful one is this years, called Dear Jane. I am 2/3 done in this reproduction quilt. The original was done at the end of the civil war, in those colors. I have interpreted it in modern Kaffe Fasset prints.

In between i make charity quikts. 12 last year, one this year so far, with two more tops done. I lead a charity group and we have made a stack of blocks for charity that we will put together.

That briwn onebis lovely! I wouldn’t have thought that I would like a brown quilt necessarily but that one is really really nice. This year’s quilt in the bright colors is more my style so I will be interested to see that when it’s done.
3-21-19, 6:00am
rosarugosa

Great arrangement, IL. The spirals are really cool!
Beautiful quilts, Flowers!
3-21-19, 10:47am
JaneV2.0

I love the idea of sampler quilts, and these--with small blocks--are exceptionally attractive. Black fabric really sets off the bright colors.
3-21-19, 3:58pm
pinkytoe

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A quickie colored pencil sketch I did of a mouse:
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3-21-19, 4:31pm
Simplemind

Love, love, love that mouse!
3-21-19, 5:16pm
KayLR

Wow, Pinkytoe, that's really nice!!!
3-21-19, 5:17pm
Gardnr

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Always quilting for therapy...afterall, I am in healthcare. Attachment 2700 Attachment 2701 Attachment 2702 Attachment 2703 Attachment 2704
3-21-19, 5:18pm
Gardnr

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Originally Posted by pinkytoe

A quickie colored pencil sketch I did of a mouse:
Attachment 2699

WOW!!!! Awesome!!!!!
3-21-19, 5:20pm
KayLR

Those are really nice, Gardnr---and a lot of work! I love the colors in the first one and the pattern of the last one, especially. What are the objects in the first one's squares? I couldn't tell even when I zoomed in.
3-21-19, 5:33pm
Gardnr

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Originally Posted by KayLR

Those are really nice, Gardnr---and a lot of work! I love the colors in the first one and the pattern of the last one, especially. What are the objects in the first one's squares? I couldn't tell even when I zoomed in.

Thank you! It's this but black background: https://etsy.me/2Cy1vPZ
3-21-19, 5:38pm
CathyA

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Originally Posted by catherine

Gorgeous display, IL! I love how the different leaf shapes are so different, yet complement each other!!

Can we do other artistic media? How about poems? I wrote this a long time ago.

I Kissed It

I was ironing the other day
And I found myself
Kissing
My son’s white T-shirt
Size 8
It was a silly thing to do
I did it anyway

I was wondering what to cook the other day
And I found myself
Kissing
A small rutabaga
It was a silly thing to do
Kissing a rutabaga
(Purply-waxy little thing!)
I looked around sheepishly
To be sure I was alone
And I kissed it

Some things make sense to kiss
You kiss a spouse
You kiss a cheek
Or two, if you’re in France

But there are things
So beautiful
So wonderful
So awe-inspiring
(To my eyes anyway)
That the desire to kiss them
Is irresistible and I…
Sshhh,,,
Just have to sneak a peck

A silly way (to be sure)
To simply say
Thank you

I love that Catherine, and do the same thing!
3-21-19, 5:39pm
CathyA

oops....double post
3-21-19, 5:41pm
CathyA

Hey Pinkytoe.........sorry I was confused on who drew the mouse. That's amazing! I hope you continue to draw many more things (and share them with us)!
3-21-19, 5:50pm
iris lilies

Pinkytoe, the mouse! Really really nice! Your point of view in showing his front, and the object of his focus—nice!
3-21-19, 6:51pm
pinkytoe

Thanks all! I haven't drawn since I was young so it's a retirement resurging interest. I used to quilt too and admire the work I am seeing here.
3-22-19, 11:09am
JaneV2.0

I'm impressed with all your obvious talent!
3-22-19, 11:14am
Float On

[QUOTE=Gardnr;323426]Always quilting for therapy...

I really like the 2nd one. It reminds me of the quilt on my bed. A neighbor up on the cliff was selling off a lot of items when they moved from the cliff property to a condo in town. One item was a quilt her mom made while she worked in a shirt factory in the 40's. The fabrics were 4 colors in the same fabric pattern in stripes like that. It's my favorite quilt.
3-22-19, 11:34am
Teacher Terry

Love the quilts! You guys all are talented. I don’t have a creative bone in my body:))
3-22-19, 1:13pm
rosarugosa

I love the mouse and the quilts are lovely! It's an honor to be in the company of such clever people. :)
3-24-19, 12:55pm
Gardnr

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I'm on a quilting retreat at the cabin (where it is currently snowing). I made the first one Friday afternoon/Sat morning. I finished the binding handwork on the 2nd about an hour ago. Attachment 2710 Attachment 2711
3-24-19, 8:59pm
iris lilies

I find the second one charming!
3-25-19, 5:35am
rosarugosa

Nice work, Gardnr!
3-25-19, 6:02am
razz

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Originally Posted by rosarugosa

I love the mouse and the quilts are lovely! It's an honor to be in the company of such clever people. :)

Catching up and seeing all this talent in flower arranging, quilting and drawing is a delight.
4-12-19, 9:12pm
iris lilies

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Flower show season is getting into full swing.

yesterday I won Best in Show at the Greater St. Louis Daffodil show with this floral design:

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4-12-19, 9:38pm
catherine

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

Flower show season is getting into full swing.

yesterday I won Best in Show at the Greater St. Louis Daffodil show with this floral design:

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Congratulations!! That is beautiful! Is it a bunch of candlesticks you stacked on top of each other? I love the composition of the daffodils, too!

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