Posies are finished!

Not quite a year after we started, we finished the quilt! It features a simple posy or ditsy flower in hand-dyed fabrics hand appliqued on black backgrounds. This was a joint project with my mother, Blogless Meg, inspired by a 1930s quilt kit found on ebay and featured on Barbara Brackman's blog.

Here's a couple of views where you can see the border.

A close-up of the centre medallion. Note the differences in background fabric, leaves, stems, and placement of the flowers. We went with an organic approach.

It is machine quilted with spirals and outline quilting by Katie Friesen, a quilter from Winkler, Manitoba, who also designs applique patterns.

The only fabric we purchased for this quilt is the binding. It's an Alexander Henry print called Everglades.

We used some of the same print on the back too.

This quilt still needs a name. We are planning to donate it to my sons' school as a fundraiser. More details on that later.

It's a quilt!

So after that earlier blog appeal, a picture came my way. Here is the finished top on my mother's bed. You can't see the side borders, but the flowers continue all the way around. I like it! We plan to get vines quilted in the black borders, and outline quilting around the applique. This is intended to raise funds for my sons' school, so I'll get some good straight on pix when it is done so we can sell lots of raffle tickets.

It's been nine months and I'm expecting a quilt!

This baby is nearly here, but I can't show it to you yet. Since March 2010,  my mother and I have been hand appliquing these ditzy flowers to black backgrounds, inspired by a post by Barbara Brackman.

We're using up her stash of hand dyes and some of mine to make a variety of these 10-inch blocks

The quilt has gotten bigger

and bigger

and now the borders are all on and the back is pieced, and it measures 95 by 95 inches,

and it's been to her quilt guild, where it was much admired.

And now it's at the longarm quilter, who also has big plans for it,

but.....

BUT....

my mother is very good at applique, and colour selection, and piecing

Her multiple prize-winning Baltimore Album quilt

But no so good with the technical stuff like uploading pix and emailing them....

Minutes after this post, my mother sent me a picture. It's in the post above.  All is forgiven!

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