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Unfortunately, field mushrooms have been very scarce this year due to lack of rain. Will have to wait until next year before we head out to the paddocks and pick up a feed. Unfortunately, mushrooms on in the supermarkets are a poor substitute for the real deal.

Admittedly, the mushrooms depicted in these designs are not white and flattish, but despite not being attractive from an edible point of view, they look more attractive in the quilt environment.

Too cold to grow mushrooms at the moment … and a bit dry as well.

Mind you, I haven’t tasted field mushrooms since I stopped living on a farm, but if my memory is working well, the mushrooms in my quilt designs look more like toadstools!

At the moment we are moving from mushroom season to sunflower season. I have no idea why I paired up sunflowers, which grow to 10-12 feet, with mushrooms, which grow to a few inches across, but they sort of work together.

I like the second one best, but if I made it into a real quilt I would randomly mix the mushrooms, which look more like toadstools, and sunflowers.

Don’t know about the cream, but I think the cat might have eaten the mushrooms!

This has got to be one of the more unlikely combinations of subjects to ever appear in quilt designs, even virtual ones. My only excuse is that it seemed like a good idea at the time, and is still fun!

A bit cold for mushrooms, but the neighbour has sunflowers growing ready for the flowering season. I did find a couple of weird looking mushrooms in the garden earlier, but decided they didn’t look like the ones I have eaten in the past, so let them become part of the compost heap, as I would with the ones depicted in the blocks.

Should draw some fairies to sit under the mushrooms, which are really more toadstools, along with some gnomes.

When I was teaching myself to draw applique in Electric quilt I drew some toadstools or mushrooms, and had to try them in some quilt designs.

I love the one above.

I also had fun hiding the cat amongst the sunflowers!