Gardening

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  1. love this passage very much…partly because it eases my judgement of my ify Gardening. Which is on granite, which can be some of what i hope,
    but also, in it’s natural Self, cannot. So…we , me and Garden go about it….bending coaxing nurturing cajoling. and if there is tricking, it is
    of me. Thank you so much for bringing your reading here and sharing….and for telling the Story of your own Garden, both botanical and
    cloth….i always so much love your choices of fabric, the colors, the Good Company of them, on with the others…
    Thank you

    • Catherine says:

      I have always been oriented to lazy gardening, but this passage pushes me even further. I’m not even really dedicated to rows (but don’t tell my partner that). I really love the squares, how simple they are, and how fun to put them together. Thank you for being Good Company here!

  2. Liz A says:

    I love your cabbages, which look like blowsy flowers (blowsy being a word my mom used to say … meaning full to overflowing, like a overlarge blouse) … and the teeny zucchini (how good those will taste!)

    lovely nine-patches, especially the one with the embedded four-patch … they are endlessly fascinating and I’m wondering if you have a “favorite” patch size (mine is 1.75″)

    • Catherine says:

      I really love a good red cabbage in the garden and this is a good year for them. The colors and shapes – yum. Not that into zucchini, but I have several ways of cooking them that I like, so I have one.

      Interesting about the favorite patch size – not really. I’m stuck on 3″ right now. I’ve done 1.5, but never tried 1.75. I’ll cut a template that size so I have it available. It’s amazing how interested I can become in assembling the nine-patches from a random stack of squares.

  3. jude says:

    Lazy gardening never really turns out that way, I cannot believe how much energy it takes, even just helping things grow. Of course this year with no rain it has been very stressful.
    I love your 9s. 1.75 was the size I used for the Holding Pattern quilt, cut at first because it was the size of a lot of small leftovers I had. It is a nice in between.

    • Catherine says:

      Gardening is a lot of work no doubt about it. I just have to hope each year I learn a few more tricks to make it easier. Mine could have used a lot more water than I gave it this year. I will try 1.75. I do try to match the size to the leftovers I have.

  4. Nancy says:

    Gosh your garden/cloth 9-patches are glorious! How do you make the collage pic (program?)? I could make these endlessly. ????
    I made a chocolate-zucchini cake for one of my son’s early birthdays! Yum!

    • Catherine says:

      Chocolate zucchini cake is one of my favorite recipes! I usually make it in a loaf pan but decided to try a layer cake for my partner’s birthday. It came out great! The app I use for collage is on my phone – Adobe Photoshop Express. It uses photos from my phone and there are a lot of options. I should use it more, it’s very handy.

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