Newbie Tuesdays: The Flower Quilt

Hello Everyone! Today is Newbie Tuesday and you know what that means? It's time to feature the work of a new (or fairly new) quilter.

Today we are taking a look at one of my own quilt tops that I recently finished.

This is Elektra's Flower Quilt. You have seen me discuss this quilt before. Well, now the quilt top is completely finished. This quilt was stitched together by hand. The quilt is made up of 96 squares in a 'plus sign' pattern.

I finished to quilt this past weekend and am excited to now be going into the final stages of making this quilt top into a fully functioning quilt. 

Fussy Cut Flowers

Last year I purchased a couple of vintage pillow cases from the Goodwill. I intended on using them in a quilt somehow. Recently, my daughter reminded me that I made a promise awhile back to make her a quilt. She has requested a quilt with all pinks and purples. She did say that she would allow a little bit of other colors, but only if it had flowers on it.

Looking at the pillow case I now see a way I can use the fabric. I knew that I wanted to do a basic square patch quilt for my little girl. I could have just cut out the fabric normally and let the flowers land where they may. But I decided to try my hand at some fussy cutting. This meant actually breaking out the rotary cutter and cutting board.

I will confess to you now, me and rotary cutters are not the best of friends. I do believe rotary cutters are a great tool for cutting fabric, it's just not my first choice. I much prefer to use a good pair of scissors. Yup, call me old fashion.

Anyway, using this square template, (which I have no idea when and where I got it), I cut about sixteen 4" squares with seam allowance included.

Now that I've got these flower squares cut out, it's on to gathering and cutting the other fabric for the quilt.