Continuing from yesterday…

I didn't show you the stack of rainbow solids that I intended to use for the flowers! Here they are. Pretty!

I decided against drawing a pattern for the flowers. While they will be similar in shape and size, I like that the fact that each one will be different.

The black and white hex flowers are going to function as flower centers. I placed a hex flower on top of the flower fabric (on top of my sandboard) and I drew a flower around the hex flower.

Each of these flower shapes has 6 lobes, just as a hex flower has six hexes around a center hexagon. It's a nice fit.

I cut 36 flowers from my stack of rainbow solids. Orange and red and pink and purple and blue flowers… You know what? Too many colors. It was hard to look at which is never a good sign.

The blues and purples worked the best so I cut more flowers from those colors. I put them on the wall and the quilt was nice, but missing something. It needed warm colors!

And leaves and stems…

I really wish I could show you all nine blocks on the wall. They are looking happy! But I can't because 1) this quilt will probably be in a book and 2) if you see it now, you won't be excited later when you see it finished. It will be old news and old news is not exciting.

I have more fabric to cut tonight and then I should be able to start appliqueing. Hoorah! Just in time because Linda is coming to Texas and we're going to be busy during the day and stitching at night.

Linda and I are working on what comes next, after the next book that is already in the editing phase. I do the drawing in Illustrator, on my computer, so I am very grateful that my computer is happy. 🙂