The next flower for my Ribbons of Flowers Garden Quilt is wisteria. I absolutely had to have that in my garden. I loved picking out the fabrics for this one – and made changes as I sewed it together as far as my initial choices went as well as I thought there was a bit too much difference and I wanted to keep my wisteria quite soft. Entirely made with batiks, including the framing fabric.
The back, after grading the seams. I think I’ve discovered the sewing sequence that works best for me, but for the next flower I may try another sewing sequence that I’ve been thinking about, just to see if it works.
The chrysanthemum ribbon flower is going to be slightly delayed as, thanks to a comment left by Wanda of Exuberant Color, I had to start pulling fabrics and printing the shapes for a tea rose. And now that I have, I can’t wait to sew it together. She posted some pictures yesterday of flowers in her garden that have got me thinking of yet more fabric combinations for my Ribbons of Flowers Garden Quilt.
I’ve discovered I don’t have enough fabrics that work as backgrounds/frames for these blocks, but I did pull a few over the weekend that I will look at a bit more, thinking about using the wrong side of them as background as I’ve done that once already and it gave me the look I wanted.
This was the elevator lobby flower arrangement for the weekend. I think we’ll see a new one today.
“Wisteria Hysteria”
Jake sometimes just doesn’t want to have his photo taken and will turn away but yesterday, I captured this shot just as he had started to turn away. I had to post it as it’s the best photo I think we’ve ever taken as far as showing the colour of his eyes. They’re really a beautiful and, I think, very striking colour.
Baxter, on the other hand, will pose for a photograph every time.
Quilt Obsession 
Love this block! wow, you’re really going to have quite the bouquet of flowers!
Baxter just loves to show off his beard! 🙂
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I’m going to have a LOT of flowers if I make all that I want to make as the ideas list for more flower blocks grows every day!
Baxter definitely likes to show off his ruff – but no matter how often I brush him, he always looks a bit rumpled, I think.
Cathi
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Gorgeous!
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Thank you!
Cathi
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Lovely Cathi. And aren’t you lucky to have fresh cut flowers in your elevator lobby!
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Thank you, Liz! We are very fortunate to have those flower arrangements – and I’m grateful, as the lobby is quite cold, I think, with a lot of grey and beige and metal, so the flowers are a welcome sight for sure!
Cathi
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Beautiful, gentle,misty, I love it. Hope all those batiks were the easy to put the needle into type.
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Thank you! They were much easier batiks to work with – I’ve learned which ones to avoid now.
Cathi
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Your wisteria block is a beauty. I’m looking forward to many more blocks. I think this needs to be a big quilt/
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Thank you! I think it will be either one big quilt or a series of flower quilts as I just do not want to stop making them – I love working with this block and fabric colours for flowers.
Cathi
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My heavens Cathi… ill say it again…. you have a way with Fabric placement! ! Jakes eyes are beautiful! ! Because Baxter is so photogenic, maybe sell his photos to folks making kitty calendars?? Ya’never know. Lol!!
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Thank you! My biggest aid to fabric placement is a daylight bulb in a lamp. It’s really quite striking to see how much difference there can be from what one might see with normal lighting.
Cathi
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Beautiful! It would be nice to embroider names under blocks. Love there detailed cartoon! Beautiful kitties
Sandra
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I was thinking I might do a label for the back of the quilt with a grid showing the names of each flower. But embroidering each flower’s name beneath it is a great idea and one I hadn’t thought of – thank you!
Cathi
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