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Quilting Floral Reflections 2

Posted on November 30, 2020 | 15 comments

The last time that I shared a Floral Reflections progress report, I was considering what to use for the background filler for the applique blocks.

My go-to filler is stippling, but I wanted to try something different. I did think about pebbles. I love the look of pebbling, but I thought that would be too much work.

Cindy Needham talks about sunshine and shadow. She uses scribbling to create the shadow and emphasize the sunshine. So I decided to try it!

Scribbling does indeed create shadow and looks great! But, for me, on a large project, this is a slow and tedious process!

The back.

Somebody save me from myself!

Quilt On!

Floral Reflections Intro

Floral Reflections

Floral Reflections Update

Floral Reflections Update 2

Floral Reflections Update 3

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Floral Reflections Update 4

Floral Reflections Update 5

Floral Reflections Update 6

Quilting Floral Reflections

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Floral Reflections

Posted on November 4, 2020 | 10 comments

When I last shared an update about the Floral Reflections quilt, I shared that all of the stitching in the ditch and outline stitching was finished.

But I didn’t share a photo of what that looks like from the back.

Now I have.

In general, I am a quilt by the seat of my pants kind of girl. I don’t usually have my quilting all planned out.

While looking at this quilt, I thought the square blocks needed circular elements.

To get started, I am going to use two circle templates.

I traced larger circles around each block using Cindy Needham’s template, and I chose a small circle template to trace ‘berries’ from Karen Kay Buckley’s assortment.

We’ll see how this turns out.

Quilt On!

Floral Reflections Intro

Floral Reflections

Floral Reflections Update

Floral Reflections Update 2

Floral Reflections Update 3

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Floral Reflections Update 4

Floral Reflections Update 5

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Floral Reflections

Posted on September 23, 2020 | 14 comments

Now that the Let’s Sew quilt is finished, the next project on my Focus 2020 list that I choose to tackle is Floral Reflections. I talked about this project back in November 2019.

There have been several updates since then.

I don’t have photos of it, but I am currently stitching in the ditch all of the sashing and border seams. Most of the basting pins are now removed, and the quilt is easier to handle.

I thought that I would be traditional and quilt hanging diamonds, but I have changed my mind. I am machine quilting, and I don’t want to quilt over the applique, nor do I want to break thread.

Therefore, I will be outline stitching the applique and stitching a filler design in the blocks.

Quilt On!

Floral Reflections Intro

Floral Reflections

Floral Reflections Update

Floral Reflections Update 2

Floral Reflections Update 3

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