The QPN Conference is this weekend. For the past two years Mary Kerr has given a challenge to use an old block that she supplies to make a small quilt. As soon as we got our blocks last year I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This is the block (part of it already taken apart because I forgot to take a picture before I started to work in this project). Click here to see the 2008 QPN Challenge Quilts. The quilts this year are to be 12″.
The drafting stage.
I have started to sew.
The pieces of fabric were not large enough so I just had to take matters into my own hands.
Now to figure out exactly how I want to finish this quilt. (I had the exact yellow that I need for the additional petals. YAH!!!!)
Maybe some lady bugs for added color.
By putting red piping I think it would add a little zing on the edge.
Maybe a bigger center with some swarski crystals (I don’t have time to sew on beads this time like I did on the growth chart).
I am considering putting some fun fur in the center for texture
Maybe some lady bugs for added color.
By putting red piping I think it would add a little zing on the edge.
Maybe a bigger center with some swarski crystals (I don’t have time to sew on beads this time like I did on the growth chart). 
But – maybe this one is little to big, would a happy medium be better?
Maybe it needs a stem and a couple of leaves.
Maybe it needs a stem and a couple of leaves.Please help me out with your suggestions!
Thanks!!!!
Ahhh.. looks so much like spring. I think maybe a smaller center, but not as small as the first, with the fur added for texture, like a sunflower center. Please do add the lady bugs, they are sooo cute. Oh yes, stem and leaves… ok that’s my two cents.
Can’t wait to see the finished piece!
I like the stem too, I think that really brings it together. Also I think a medium sized brown area, larger than the fun fur and smaller than the batik. It is looking good!
I think it definitely needs a stem. That makes it look really nice. I like the fun fur the in the middle too.