Tag Archives: Batik Sunflowers

A Caribbean Sunflower

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For some reason, this one makes me think of the Caribbean. A comment left last week on one of the sunflower posts about the quilt being of different seasons of sunflowers has me thinking about possibly arranging the blocks by season when they’re all done. If I do that, this one would definitely be a summer one. It’s one of my favourite batiks. I was so glad I had enough of it left to make a sunflower.

With each one of these that I make, I’m finding it’s faster and faster to stitch. It used to be around a 4 or 5-hour stitch. Now I’ve got it down to about 3 hours from start to finish, including grading the seams and pressing.

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Seams graded and the Caribbean summer sunflower pressed.

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“Who Left the Porch Light On?”

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He was stretched out on his kitty tree watching the gardeners out on the roof garden yesterday.

Very Subdued Sunflower

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I said the next one was going to be subdued in comparison to yesterday’s orange sunflower. And this one is. But if I’m going for a colour-wash effect with these blocks, there will be some very subdued, muted sunflowers. I’m … Continue reading →

A Sunny Orange Sunflower

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It’s orange. And cheerful. And sunny. And it’s one more of the 6″ sunflowers to add to the little stack of finished blocks. Seams pressed and graded. And the next one will be very subdued in comparison. Very, very subdued. … Continue reading →

Sunflowers

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Eleven little sunflowers done. Actually, there are 14 that have been completed but 3 of those 14 were turned into mini quilts. I clearly can’t get enough of making these 6″ sunflower blocks. Seeing this picture has already convinced me … Continue reading →

Another Pieced Hexagon

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Last night, after cutting the shapes for a few more sunflowers, I decided it was time to make another pieced hexagon. This is a rather large hexagon for me – it’s a 3″ hexagon composed of 30 pieces, all from … Continue reading →

Pink Sunflower

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Another sunflower is done to add to the little stack. Now there are 10 done. This one is a rather hot pink. I can tell already that arranging the sunflowers when they’re done is going to be fun. Now that … Continue reading →

Purple Sunflower

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One more sunflower to add to the little stack of finished blocks. A purple one this time. Seams graded and pressed. Putting together the diamond/triangles band that goes around the centre circle takes the longest but is also a lot … Continue reading →