After a lot of creative cutting I had enough for pieces cut out for 24 of these lovely ladies. After attempting to machine piece the first 2 blocks and frogging more seams than I put in, I realized it was time to tackle hand piecing. Between waiting for coats of varnish to dry on a certain teardrop trailer, the nosegays came to life and I discovered that I really enjoy hand piecing. Then they spent way too much time on the design wall while the teardrop was being finished and I tried to figure out where to go from there. Yup, I had no plan beyond the nosegays. I figured the fruit ladies would speak to me and tell me where to go from there.....they didn't -- speak to me, that is.
And just because I want to, here are a few close up shots of the quilting.
The rest of the challenge projects can be found here.
4 comments:
Gorgeous! I can't believe you hand pieced all of those, but they are perfect. That ribbon border is wonderful...I love it all!
And all of the other projects in the challenge are so clever and inspiring as well. Way to go, girls!
Oh Liz,
It is beeeuuutiiifuuullll!!!!
Love everything about it. You should be proud!!!!
I LOVE this quilt!!! I am blown away by what you did with the fabric (which, by the way, is hilarious!). Taking that 'strip' design and fussy-cutting the ladies for nosegays was genius...even if you did have to hand piece! Love it!
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