Fractured Flowers Quilt

Fractured Flowers

with embroidered border

 I think spring is here and the to do list just tripled

the gardens are calling my name.

In January we had a retreat here in our town, oh such fun.

I was in the need of flowers and my youngest daughter

in need of a quilt.  So I began this for her.

It started with 3 charm packs, now I have never worked with

a charm pack before but these kind of called my name

so I sent for them. 

 I mixed them up (or so I thought) and sewed them together,

and it was ok, adding the border helped 

BUT

I was not really happy with it, just did not have enough spark.

So I decided to cut the rows in half, shift them around 

and resew, below is the result.

Ok, that is better, 

BUT

it still needed somethings....So

 I cut the columns in half, shifted them around

and sewed them back together

(and yes I just cut thru the border, too)

Oh there we go, much better.

 While at retreat, I learned about the 

Wing Clipper

A ruler for helping make flying geese.

I love this tool, it made the process so much easier.

I had considered making flying geese to add to this quilt

but they are such a pain, I scrapped that idea

until I used this.  See the pretty geese and they are perfect.

A great tool!

 A few weeks later I took a class on Craftsy.com

The class is on making sweatshirt jackets.  

The teacher had a technique for an edge treatment that I could use

for this quilt.

These flowers are involved and they are embroidered.

 I decided to also put some of the flowers in the middle of the quilt.

 A finished one

 Next came the outer border, with the flying geese

After adding the flying geese border, I did the quilting

with a floral design

The geese are only on two corners, opposing.

Next came the embroidered flowers 

This took alot of time but I think the results were

worth the effort.

I bound the quilt before putting on the embroidered flower

so that they would cover the binding ends.

With the flowers being on opposing corners, 

I left the area to be worked with them unbound.

The front

 The back, where I used some of the 

fabric from the border on the front.

This design took alot of removing from the machine,

trimming and changing of bobbins so that 

the back matched the front.  

I love the way the border is now trimmed

to the shape of the flowers, alot more 

interesting the a straight border and binding.