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.