Flower quilt along

Béa et Cécile Quilt-a-Long  is a group I joined 2 years ago online and happily made one of my all time favorite quilts,  The theme then was log cabin, and this year it is flowers.  I had intended and even started 3 blocks from Lori Holt's Bloom templates.

I fully intended on making a quilt such as this:

But it turns out I needed 3 sets of templates and I was barely progressing. 

So I sacked that idea and went searching for another:

I have liked the French roses quilts with raw edges for some time.  And then I recalled that I have a box of coordinated fabrics from Fig Tree quilts. I had finished 2 quilts using them.  So it was an easy switch

I drew my own pattern to fit a 6 inch block. 

And then cut 16 fabrics into each of the 3 petal shapes. Using glue stick I just applied them to my base blocks and then did a blanket stitch on my back-up sewing machine around all the edges and leaves. ( My Bernina 930 does not  have one. )

And the blocks are all made.  Now for a plan to put them together.

Here is one of the activities my grandsons so enjoy at my house:



We are helping with them 2 afternoons through bedtime after school and usually one overnight a week. They are precious to have and I have so much fun creating fun activities and using my teaching background to create things for them to do. Valentine projects on the brain at the moment.

And I have resorted to getting  my pictures from a different avenue than my phone.