While looking up flower types, I noticed a section of the Kansas Grasses and Wildflower site that may be of use to quilters when considering drafting their own flower pictures.
Leaves and flowers all look different, and if you’re willing to ‘go rouge’ and just Frankenstein together a flower with different flower parts, rather than copy a picture of a flower directly, you may want to learn about things like inflorescence.
Flower drawing by Dean Haddock, found on the Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses website.
On the wildflower and grasses site, there are a series of flower and leaf part drawings that do an excellent job of explaining what types of ‘stemming and flower bunches’ (my words) occur without an explanation, just pictures and names.
This not only gives you the names for the types of flower variations, but may give you some ideas of how to draft your flowers in EQ7 or something similar.
Think of all the gorgeous applique or embroidery that could take place from this!?
Here are some leaf types.
Flower drawing by Dean Haddock, found on the Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses website.
My sunflower patio quilt has what looks like an ovate leaf shape, with singular inflorescence, for example.
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