Isn't nature amazing?! Just a few slices of a red cabbage produces such incredible patterns that it is very hard to believe that it is all natural. This is the next section of my sketchbook for the 'Layering' project Of course I couldn't resist pressing some paper onto these slices of cabbage to make the most of the patterns and the incredible violet purple juice which I used as a sketchbook page. I also took a photo of one cabbage slice and repeated the picture to create this almost psychedelic pattern. Then I played around with a combination of free machine embroidery and pen drawing on tracing paper over an enlarged cabbage slice print. Varying the scale can make for some exciting outcomes. I used some wadding to do a quilted version of the pattern with some free maching embroidery that gave a good effect,. I then extended the pattern in my sketchbook with some line drawing to the edge of the page U