After time spent cleaning up and re-organizing in my sewing space (you can see my destash sale fabric here), I was ready to get back to a quilting project. Flowers for Emma was starting to take on UFO status. I began this project about two years ago as my portable project but have not had much need for portability over the past 18 months and have focused on machine sewn quilts instead. But only the hexie flowers are sewn by hand in this project and with them completed, it morphs into a machine project.
I made the flowers above while watching The Flight Attendant on HBO Max and The Pursuit of Love on Amazon Prime. (Both are fairly entertaining; of the two, I preferred The Pursuit of Love.) All of the fabric for the flowers, except the yellow centers, are from various Fig Tree Designs for Moda fabric lines. Then it's over to the sewing machine where I use a blind stitch or tiny zigzag to applique the flowers to the pieced background. I've been trying both stitches and think they work equally well. You have to look very closely to see the stitches and I think they will become even less visible after quilting.
