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. 

Flower Quilt

Yesterday I stated cutting out pieces for my daughter's quilt. Today I've been trying out different layouts for the quilt. I think now the squares have settled on the cross or plus sign pattern. 

You can see in the picture below the fussy cut flowers that I cut out from the vintage pillowcase. There is also a noticeable splash of blue that asked to be added to the quilt. I think it just wanted to be noticed.

I had ended up with an uneven number of blocks due to the fact that I had more of some fabrics then others. I tried to work in as many squares as I could so that I would have very little left over. Don't worry, the squares that didn't get included will find a home in another quilt.

I do like the way the pieces lined themselves up. I wasn't sure at first about some of the colors I picked, but now seeing them in this arrangement makes me feel a bit more confident in my skill of selecting fabrics.

After getting all the squares where they wanted to be, it was time to stack up the rows for easy sewing.

Starting from left to right, I stacked each square on top of the other. This created a total of 12 stacks with 8 squares in each stack. I used Post-It notes to easily label each row so that I would know in what order the rows would be sewn.

Now it's time to mark the back of each square with a 1/4 inch seam around the edges and get to sewing.