Now that Blossoms is done, I feel it's time to clean up the studio and finish up other projects that are lying around. One of those is making more hanging towels,
just in time for Thanksgiving.
Not that winter or any time of year were forgotten.
Using one towel in each color and my Hanging Towels tutorial, these four stitched up quickly. Why did I put it off for so long? But I'm happy to have new towels, and to have them off the Featherweight case.
One project down, more to go!
Here it is - Blossoms!
Another quilt created from leftovers from Jeweled Flower Garden and Saw Tooth Flowers, with petals from solids added in.
The blossoms use the Crafted Applique (affiliate link) technique, a new non-traditional applique method.
So how did these blossoms happen? After prepping the fabric according to the directions in the book, and with six triangles from each fabric, a hexagon center was created,
highlighted by a yellow frame.
Using a longarm ruler as a template,
the first row of petals are cut and placed.
Two circle rulers provide the templates for row 2 and 3.
Then the process begins to add them on to the first row.
Row 3 is added in the same way.
The blossom creation was carried out on a pressing sheet in order to adhere the petals to each other for transfer to the background.
After cutting a few leaves, everything was pinned and then fused to the background.
For this quilt, I decided to use the straight line of the quilting to hold down the applique instead of zig zagging around the edges then quilting over that.
Background on this is a freehand meander. No need for something fancy as it would be hard to see.
Though I'm not concerned about the applique coming up, I don't know how the edge will hold up in the wash. Lara claims the edges don't fray, but I'll check that out on another project. For now, this one is a wall hanging.
Almost forgot! The background is a D9P (disappearing 9-patch), done all in greens. Check out the D9P tutorial to make your own.
Have a great weekend quilting!
Squeezed in a couple hours this weekend to work on my Crafted Applique (affiliate link) project after leaving it in this state for days.
Now I have a background of blocks,
and a start on making flower petals.
I'm thinking one more round of petals, to balance out the size of the center hexagon. Hope I've processed enough fabric for that! First though, round 1 and 2 need cutting for all the other centers.
I'll update again on Wednesday for Midweek Makers. See you then!
Have a wonderful day quilting!
