I love seeing a patch of densely blooming flowers. I also love cottage gardens. In my own garden, I have drought tolerant plants that form areas to create the look of a cottage garden. Each year I add new and different flowering drought tolerant plants in those areas to form a more densely cottage patch.
After seeing these beautiful batiks in a jelly roll, all I could think of was flowers and half-hexis.
Twice now I have arranged hexagons to make quilts with a flower theme. One quilt I did as a quilt-as-you-go and that quilt went to a friend in Japan. The other quilt I own and has a very wide border that is quilted with arcs.
After arranging the hexagons into flowers, I stitched them into rows and then the rows were stitched together. I opted out of doing this quilt as a quilt-as-you-go. Instead I basted the layers in prep for quilting.
I decided to go with arcs, but no borders.
It took a week for me to quilt the arcs. The arcs represent the blowing of the wind through the flowers.
I opted for a blue binding with a pink flange instead of a border. I'm into using flange bindings this year for most of my quilts.
The back of quilt is this pretty floral flannel. Come dead winter when I'm in need of "Spring" this quilt should keep me warm.
