Crazy Flowers - A Quilty Finish♡

Hello, lovely lovelies♡ There's another quilty finish to showcase here at my little place. Crazy Flowers is finished; just in time to sashay with the spring flowers. Yes indeedy, she's kicking up her heels and dancing among the wisteria and blossom trees. =)

Crazy Flowers was imagined upon a whim; to play with as many fabric scraps as a girl could possibly unearth. And, play with a gazillion scraps of fabric, this girl did.

Each crazy flower was fashioned by machine stitching scraps of fabric onto a white octagon shape, base fabric, round and round in a crazy patchwork method. The centre of each flower is a smidgen of a rose print. When all the flowers were finished, the flowers (octagons) were English paper pieced to squares, hand stitching until the centre panel of the quilt was finished. As I do-si-doed around and around, stitching snippets of scraps crazily to each octagon, it occurred to me that what was before me reminded me of a rose with petals slowly unfurling.

When all the octagons and squares were stitched together, I bordered the centre panel with a Kona solid, mauve fabric and then machine stitched another crazy patchwork border dancing in a myriad of pretty fabrics. The backing is the same Kona mauve fabric with a panel of  crazy patchwork across the width and, the mauve fabric was used yet again, for the binding. The quilting is  hand quilted stitches spiralling round and round the crazy flowers, and sometimes, marching in straight lines one behind the other. I must say, I rather enjoyed hand quilting this pretty.

A 'bloom' of scrappy crazy flowers sashaying with the springtime flowers.

Oops......did I say this pretty was finished??!! Oh dear. I fear I wax lyrical about the finish of my pretty just a tad too soon. Let's see if you can spy with your little eye, what's wrong with this picture?? Looks like there's a tiny bit of hand quilting to do this evening. =) It truly is amazing what looking at a quilt a thousand times can miss, and then, all of a sudden, just before one presses the detonate publish button, that one photo shines the spotlight on that itty bitty oversight. My only excuse is that my addled head and eyes were dizzy, dizzy, dizzy from all those spirals. =) 

My very favourite quilts are those that are fashioned with pretty morsels of fabric scraps. One starts with a 'tureen' (well I did with this quilt) overflowing with scraps; then one begins to throw these nibbles of fabric up into the air and voila, a 'bloom' of flowers; a garden of crazy flowers grows. Another scrappy quilt finished (excepting of course, for those few spirals on that one crazy flower). =) This is the third hand pieced and hand quilted quilt these last four months. My 'to quilt' pile of quilts has diminished......YAY!! That's enough hand quilting for now; time for some other pretty to hand stitch.....perhaps some embroidery??

Thank you for visiting my little place. You have blessed my day♡ Sending you a little springtime love and beauty, this lovely Sunday♡

Until the next time.......

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