Wedding Quilt Phase 3
Wedding Gift
Phase 3
The saga continues
Time to start cutting fabric! Eight identical or, nearly identical, wedges for each flower. Some of the 20 flowers are kaleidoscope and some kaleidoscopish. Following the pattern (insert info again) I sew, press, sew and press the eight wedges into one unit. Eighteen of them have nearly perfect centers - then there’s the other two! Fortunately the pattern calls for a circle applique over the center of the flower.
Back to the fabric stash for the centers. Rather than one piece of fabric for all 20 flowers, I used several colors of the same type of fabric. (Remember those scraps we said to save) A semi-sheer, semi-glimmery fabric. Purchased that several years ago in a scrap bundle. Matched colors to flowers, then appliqued them on.
Cut 12 1/2″ squares from two complimentary fabrics for the back ground squares. Match the flowers with the back ground they look best with, then applique the flowers to there back ground squares. You don’t have to turn edges as the making of the flowers does all the work. I did find that a needle helped pull out the points as I went along.
Decided on a quilting pattern, using gold cotton thread I quilted around the center applique - about 1/4″ away. Then 1/4″ inside each petal.Next using multicolored cotton (blue/green/yellow/red) thread I quilted again about 1/4″ away around the outside of the entire flower.
In each conner I quilted a fleur-de-lis, using a quliting stencil for the pattern.
The Baby quilt nears complition! Its all batted/backed and tied, and the binding is sewn half way around.
