Fourth flower tutorial for pattern # 1601

I have two flowers for you today that work well with quilting cottons.  As I said yesterday,  I love to mix prints.

These flowers (views C and D) are made with gathered strips with soft torn edges. And the way to get a strip with a torn edge that is just the width needed is to tear the fabric first, press out any pulls or crinkles.  THEN pin on the pattern and cut it out ... like this.

The gathering can be done by machine or by hand for these flowers.

And the center is just a fabric covered button like the flower from yesterday's blog.

The upper layer of these flowers (views J and K) is also a gathered strip with a torn edge.

The bottoms are pieces of folded burlap.

But the burlap will fall apart if you don't zig-zag around it first.

I had the hardest time figuring out which prints to put with the different colors of burlap. The brown burlap was way, way too dark. I wanted to keep this set with neutral tones, but it was a struggle.

Here's one I used a bit of blue on.  I forget why I didn't like it .... oh well.




Tomorrow will be the last of these flower tutorials and I'm saving a very special flower to share with you.

---