Friday, November 20, 2015

Shenandoah Valley Botanical Block 2 Blue Flag - Iris

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.
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9 comments:

  1. DawnNovember 20, 2015 at 2:25 AM

    I love your blocks in wool! Beautiful work, this is going to be a wonderful quilt.

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  2. DawnNovember 20, 2015 at 2:25 AM

    I love your blocks in wool! Beautiful work, this is going to be a wonderful quilt.

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  3. Siouxzq64@gmail.comNovember 20, 2015 at 5:13 AM

    Lovely block. The blue is fabulous.

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  4. Patty November 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM

    Very pretty!! How do you hold the wool felt to the fabric before sewing? Just pins?

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  5. suzNovember 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM

    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!

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  6. Aunt 'ReenNovember 20, 2015 at 4:51 PM

    I really love your Iris block!
    Such beautiful colors of wool.
    ALL of your wool blocks are gorgeous.

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  7. Carol SwiftNovember 22, 2015 at 9:07 AM

    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!

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  8. Soma @ inkTorrents.comNovember 24, 2015 at 1:54 AM

    I love seeing these blocks. That is one beautiful blue, Kris!!

    -Soma

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  9. Cynthia@wabi-sabi-quiltsNovember 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM

    It's going to be so pretty in wool. Really fun to see the different interpretations!

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