Here, I began with a simple flower design. I knew I wanted a yellow flower so I prepared the petal appliques with a tonal yellow/orange fabric and they are ready to stitch. I placed the petals on top of the printed pattern.
Next, I began the search for a variety of fabrics which might suggest the look of a flower center. It gave me an opportunity to come up with some creative and unexpected results. First, I pawed through my scrap bin to find possible ''centers'' from past projects and then I raided my stash looking for large florals with appealing centers. After auditioning lots of potential flower centers, I made up appliques for six of the most promising ones. I usually only cut out the fabric bits to try them out, fussy cutting the part of the fabric I think will work, but since this is my first blog I wanted to make them look all nice and fancy for you to see!
Here's how the various centers looked when I auditioned them on the flower. I get the biggest kick out of this. It reminds me of playing with Colorforms when I was a child. Anyone remember those? I tried out all the centers before settling on my final choice. Which one would you pick?
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Don't the centers make the flowers come alive?! And, each one is so unique. Guess which one I chose...
Thanks so much for stopping by. I'd love to see your flowers with jazzy centers. Please share!
All the best,
Jeanne
copyright Aug. 4, 2012 Jeanne Sullivan
All look good, but it would depend on the look and mood that you are trying to convey. I like D, but A and F are more playful.
ReplyDeleteGood pick! I did choose D for my project and plan to keep the remaining centers for another design. I'll post the finished small block when I get a chance. I added some embroidery to pull it all together.
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