Queens Garden. Made with 80%silk and 20% cotton. Up until I added the final green border the salmon pink dominated this quilt top now the green border makes the 4 centre blocks the vocal point in my eyes?
To me in this photo your eye just sees the salmon pink borders????
My beautiful Queens Garden quilt top designed by Esther Aliu is finally finished. Thank you Esther for so much enjoyment over 2018.
My favourite block!
Loved how the buds turned out on this block.
Loved how the stems crossed over on this block and the blue flower heads, and those tiny wee blue flower heads.
These flowers were a challenge for me to get that tulip look?
Biggest challenge on my Centre was the crowns to look like wee crowns till Jenny told me to do a double row of appilque in those tiny dots!
Those crowns were a challenge? They are a silver and black silk fabric which frayed and was so difficult to photograph. Plus my yellow jewels looked dead flat till jenny suggested doing a double row of appliqué inside each other and it work a treat. Zoom in to see?
Love these flowers, I added a dark pink double straight stitch on the edge of the petals inside the flower shapes.
Blue silk just glows in real life.
Close up of the double straight stitch.
Blue birds have been part of my life since I was about 2 years old and my Aunt let me grind the coffee using a delft coffee grinder that had the Willow pattern on it? She would read the story to me every night before I fell asleep?
Close up of those leaves for those of you who want to see that double applique stitch
Close up of my appliqué on the stems and the embroidery stitch I added in the stem for texture
In the garden this week.
This beauty was just opening last week.
To day a friend gave me a bunch of flowers just because!
That’s it as far as my sewing goes for this week, thank you for visiting, off to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s . Will take some garden photos and add them later in the day for you Gretchen!
Cheers Glenda
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