Saturday 12 January 2013

Flower Power

Sometimes things just fall in place. When the time's right, everything just sorta comes together by itself. I've been wanting to document my pre-blog quilts for a really long time but havent done so coz..well, I really have no good reason, actually. Does 'laziness' qualify? :-)

So my good friend Chumkie is holding a linky party over at her blog, My favourite things and this week's theme is 'Appliqued quilts' and I think, hey, finally the time's right to document this piece I made (in October 2011)  for a friend's fiesty 9 year old daughter...a quilt with flower power..


The 12 freehand flower motifs were first appliqued onto these huge circles (dunno what I was thinking!) which were then appliqued on to the pieced maroon background (again, dunno what I was thinking !!). To reduce bulk, the circle backs were cut out. Turns out I wasn't thinking very much as I decided to hand quilt the thing !!


Some laborious hand quilting along the stripes in the background fabric, some embellishment with two-tone ric-rac lace..

                            

..and all bundled with love and sent off to princess Anaga.


Linking this up Chumkie. Thanks for helping things fall in place :-)


5 comments:

  1. I'm sorry, I thought I read appliqué on appliqué and hand quilted. Blogger must have messed with your post as no one would be *that* insane would they? Beautiful quilt though, hope she appreciates it!

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  2. It is beautifully made....I'm sure she loved it!!!!

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  3. Wow, all that work done by hand! Really appreciate you linking this in.

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  4. This is fantastic quilt! I glad you found a chance to blog about it and show us :)

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