with my gorgeous sunflower fabric? I want something that preserves the integrity of the big florals. Ok, I know that means some big in the middle block or a strip quilt or...... I was thinking Warm Wishes or Garden Twist, but hoped somebody had some better idea.
This fabric will not look good cut into small pieces. It needs something big to show off those big beautiful sunflowers.
Sunny
Can't do better than the classic snowball, alternating with Ohio Stars or a simple 9-patch. Roberta in D
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Sunny: A few years ago I made good use of sunflower fabric in a large wall quilt, which could serve as a lap quilt. I used yellow basket blocks and had the sunflower fabric as the 'contents' of the baskets. I think I cut it to fit just inside the handle of the basket. This works if the background of the flower fabric is same as the tone on tone used in the background of the basket blocks. I used a second sunflower fabric as the large triangles, and some as outer borders. A really fun aspect was the yellow sunflowers that I FM quilted on the natural colored fabric. The quilt earned a nice sum at a charity auction. HTH. PAT in VA/USA
I JUST pulled out some blocks from a siggy swap from 1997! Beautiful star blocks with 6" centers. If your fabric cuts well into 6" you might try these
Seen it done: if I can describe it here: Large rectangle in middle surrounded by square of sunflowers next to a quilt pattern square all around the middle. You SAW the sunflowers and then you saw the quilt patterns (used some of the sunflower fabric in the quilt squares.)
Butterfly (it didn't feel like the center overpowered the whole quilt--just that it was the focal point)
I like the sound of this Pat. what a neat quilt:)
Butterfly (did you take pix for posterity?)
Butterfly, Yes, if I may compliment, it was a nice quilt. It was not super special, but was very cheering and well made. I may have a hard copy photo somewhere. Not sure. PAT
Check out the BQ and BQ2 patterns at this site...I've been thinking of trying one or the other out. They definitely need a large print! NAYY
I just made a BB2 top.
I like it!! And, you say it wasn't hard? I'll definitely have to give it a try. I've checked at two quilt shops in the area, but neither one had it; I'll have to order online. It definitely shows off a large print!
You might consider making a large rectangle of the sunflower fabric for the center, edging it with a complimentary dark fabric with very small pattern, and then using largish squares of the sunflower fabric for the corners, also edged with the dark fabric. The rest of the quilt could be anything you like in related colors. For the quilting, you could outline quilt around the sunflowers themselves to set them off even more, and then just do whatever works and pleases you for the non-sunflower fabric blocks.
BQ or BQ2 from Maple Island Quilts.
Lizzy: Your Triple IC is lovely. Right now I'm coordinating a group making a Double IC quilt to raffle to raise money for Relay for Life. We have cream background, dark green side chains, and small print center chains. Blocks are 10" and the quilt will be Queen Size. It is coming along well, with most of the blocks returned. We have a long arm quilter who will quilt it pro bono.
PAT in VA/USA
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