Thursday, April 20, 2006

Sunflowers galore




I've got the sunflower bug, caught from Evelyn / Starfishy
Thank you Evelyn - this is great fun :-)
Great fun to visit with a zip lock bag of ready cut tumblers. Perfect for a day most suitable to do small threads and fondle fabric.
I want to redo one of the flowers, and mix in one different yellow, to catch up with the orange, or change the orange to another softer one. I am sure you can see the flower ?
Row 2, the left one.
Lamp light does not bring out the true colours of these blocks.
I have made several of these flowers before, both as sunflowers and as poinsettias, but I have never made anything other than potholders from them.
I am not sure what I will make from these yet, but it will be something bigger than potholders I can promise you.
I have been thinking down many lanes today,
and braids in blue alternated with sunflower vines might be something to think more about - a topper for my dinner table maybe :-)

The two finished flowers on the top I spent most of the afternoon and evening looking for. I knew they were there, somewhere, and I knew I had seen them recently.
Isn't it typical - starting to look for something, not finding it where I thought it were, looking all over, not being able to let it go, and in the end, after searching through binders, boxes and drawers I found it in the magazine box on my desk, behind some purse papers, in a plastic pocket, where it did not belong at all ?

I can tell you this much - I still need to organize my papers even better, again !!

I will save this sunflower project to another day calling for small threads, and work on my list projects for the next days -
promise, I think ;-)

16 comments:

  1. Welcome to the Stash Quilts ring Hanne! I've enjoyed reading through your blog and seeing all your lovely quilts. Your Dear Janes are fabulous - the quilt and the stitchery!

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  2. Your sunflowers are really nice, but as much as I love sunflowers you have provided a different colourway which I didn't think of - the pointsetta is gorgeous. What a nice Christmassy quilt that would make.

    Doodlebug

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  3. I like your sunflowers and poinsietta (I probably mispelled that one). Thanks to you, I've got my eight little flowers done! Once I get the centers on I may post them. Making some progress anyway on this round robin.

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  4. Oh, these are fun! I really like the idea of poinsettias, too! But I can't start anything else new right now!!!
    Jeanne :)

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  5. lovely sunflowers and isn't that the truth? losing things only to find them where they do not belong!

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  6. Anonymous10:42 am

    Du inspirerer alltid Hanne, og her imponerer du jammen med en velskrevet blogg også.
    Solsikkene er nydelige, og hvis jeg forsto måten å lage dem på rett, så er det jo genialt! Skal bli kjekt å følge prosessen videre.

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  7. I love the flowers! What a great idea to do poinsiettas, too. This quilt will be so colorful and fabulous!

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  8. I love the flowers Hanne!! I think several of you gals are catching that sunflower fever!! I adore the shade of yellow gold you used!!!

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  9. That's a great idea - blue braids and yellow sunflowers. Too bad I didn't think of it when I was working on my braid quilts. I also want to make some sunflower blocks but I'm going to make myself finish other things first.

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  10. I just love your projects, Hanne. I am going to have to watch myself. I am known for having a large number of UFOs - in part because I get inspired from quilting like what you do which makes me want to start more and more projects - while running out of time to finish them all. *VBS* I look forward to much more inspiration from your future posts.

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  11. When I first looked at them, I thought they were cookies! :) They're so cute!!

    Judy L.

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  12. Oh hey! I recognize those little itty bitty sunflowers! Too cute! I am putting mine on a 7" background because I thought 6.5" was cuttting it close. I also like the Christmas-sy flower. Am thinking some pink and purple ones would be nice too - I just love this pattern. Of course, I am thinking about any color right now except for BLUE becuase I am cutting out 4 BLUE scrap quilts - ugh. So, yellow is looking good. OK, got to cut some out so I can keep you company while you keep me company in making these!!!

    Cheers!

    Evelyn

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  13. Nice flowers. I have try this one day.

    Inga

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  14. Oh, how cute! I love these sunflowers.. I'm another one who is known for several UFO's...and am restricting myself from starting any more til I do the twin quilts I am making for my cousin's new baby boys! Can't wait to see what you do with all these pretty sunflowers!

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  15. Have you given any thought as to how you're going to set them? Of course, it made me think of making white picket fence strips... with some flying geese in a row for the pointy fence tops.... then applique sunflowers up above!

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  16. oh how sweet--I went back and looked again--and they are small! It's great having a take along project. They will look really nice with alternating with a braid!

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