Still having a blast with applique, this time with flowers!
Originally jewel shapes, leftover from Jeweled Flower Garden, they could have easily made flowers.
But no, I decided to cut the tips off, making hexagons, and adding yellow centers, just like the two almost complete flowers. As for the green for the leaves, too bright. Fortunately, stored with the flower pieces were triangles of another green for the leaves. Though I had plenty of those, I wanted to be different and went with one leaf, not two. Therefore, Saw Tooth Flowers.
Stitching these to interfacing for applique was easy,
as I left 1/4" open at seams between the petals (hexagons), where the leaf joins. Keeping the fabric out of the way,
and clipping the interfacing,
made for nice inside points. The flower below just got fused, and the one to the left is still free.
I also got lucky that there were seven flowers, which made for a nice arrangement on the batik background.
The flowers are lined up in an orderly fashion, though I didn't get the measuring tape out for preciseness. Just eyeballed it.
Quilting is full of freehand leaves, in a medium green thread.
And the flowers all have purple veining and centers.
A fun, different project and so happy to use up flower parts and some yardage. As for the triangles I cut off the jewels - a project for next month!
Happy Quilting!
Yep, another interfacing applique project in the works.
This time it's hexie flowers, which were pieces leftover from last year's Jeweled Flower Garden quilt.
I found the pieces while looking for purple backing fabric for the Unlimited quilt, thrilled there was enough to make another top.
But this time, I thought I'd try the interfacing applique technique, with the pattern Blooming Hexagons from the Flip & Fuse Quilts book as my inspiration.
Ah, but of course, I have to be different! If you noticed in the first picture, I'm going with a saw tooth looking flower, with just one leaf on the edge.
Don't ask why. Maybe it would look more interesting than the standard hexie shape?
Still have to test it to make sure it turns okay. Once that's a go, I'll sew the other flowers together, and ready them for applique. Oh, and choose a background. So much yet to do! More to follow on Wednesday.
Have a great day quilting!
Two more finishes this week, the very cute Hoppy quilts! One in green for a boy,
and one in pink for a girl.
It looks like these frogs just jumped onto the quilts - they are so darned cute!
Using the fusible applique method, their little bodies aren't stuck to the quilt top, giving them a bit of dimension. If I had had the forethought, I would have put a little extra batting inside them to really puff them up, though they look great the way they are.
I liked the quilting that was used on Hoppy in the Flip & Fuse Quilts book (affiliate link),
and figured out how to quilt a continuous line with minimal backtracking.
Just love the look it gives to these blocks!
And can't forget the backs. Many thanks to my neighbor who was selling off her stash - I've put the frogs to good use.
I have really been enjoying the interfacing applique technique, can't you tell?
Have a great day quilting!
