I am sewing along with the Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt project - the
pattern is provided by the Virginia Quilt Museum and all
pattern sales benefit the museum. Dawn, from Collector with a Needle, and Doreen, from Aunt Reen’s Place, are hosting a quiltalong for this quilt, here.
The pattern size as
provided by the museum easily makes 9 inch blocks. I am doing mine in wool so that I can make that size, many are enlarging the pattern and all the participant's resulting blocks are worth a look...so pretty!
This is my Block 2, Blue Flag or Iris...
So fun to select the threads to applique these, in this case I used some wool Aurifil. The blue wool I used is from a piece my friend Marie dyed for me...maybe not true to life Iris color but I love it :)
The green wool I used for the stems gave my a bit of trouble- I should have used a tighter felted piece for such narrow stems.
And here are the blocks I've made so far, we were to make 3 of the first pineapple block but I chose to make 4 as I am changing the layout slightly.
9 comments:
I love your blocks in wool! Beautiful work, this is going to be a wonderful quilt.
I love your blocks in wool! Beautiful work, this is going to be a wonderful quilt.
Lovely block. The blue is fabulous.
Very pretty!! How do you hold the wool felt to the fabric before sewing? Just pins?
I remember my mother-in-law coming to visit and commenting that I had a lot of flags in my front yard. I thought my husband had put flags out to celebrate the Fourth and looked out front. The only thing there were my irises. MIL was from Western PA so I thought it might be a quirk in her family...apparently not! Love the color of these!
I really love your Iris block!
Such beautiful colors of wool.
ALL of your wool blocks are gorgeous.
At one of our others houses we had irises in our front yard. I loved them! Your wool blocks are looking so beautiful...nice job!
I love seeing these blocks. That is one beautiful blue, Kris!!
-Soma
It's going to be so pretty in wool. Really fun to see the different interpretations!
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