MONTH 4 — Show Your Progress Here

[Barbara B.]

Please use this Topic to share your progress.

[midnight33]

[Helen W.]

Kandy, You sure got that done quickly. Looks great. Hope you have other projects to work on for the rest of April. HelenW

[Gayle L.]

Beautiful Kandy

[Angie W.]

Love your colors!

[Elizabeth A.]

Oops…..relooked at the picture… leaves going the wrong way. I guess this evening I’m redoing them!

[Ellen L.]

They look fine like they are. I'd say as long as you're consistent and all point the same way you're ok. But do what makes you happy with it.

[Carol H.]

I couldn't wait to complete my block so I made my own coneflowers and leaves before the pattern was released.

[Ellen L.]

This is the Black-eyed-Susan I could see in my mind's eye when I first saw this quilt. All the other colors were chosen to go with this. For some reason my petals are really big and I have some overlap with both the hollyhocks and the leaves, but I like the organic effect. One down and 3 to go.

[MalibuBarbie]

I like the overlap!

[Carol G.]

Ellen I love the black eyed susan!! And the overlap look looks truly natural.

[laltmayer11]

I like the way you have chosen these colors!

[MalibuBarbie]

Progress! I'm adding the leaves last......

Love your colors

[Maworchid]

[brigitte.wieser]

I didn't post my progress last month because I appliqued the leaves after finishing the cone flowers.
Now the middle section ist completed and I'm very pleased with the result.

[Marilyn M.]

First coneflower completed.... three more underway. Not particularly happy with the cone at the top and may need to address the placement/shape. Needleturn appliqué. My smartphone and I seem to be on different wavelengths this morning and I am unable to upload more than a section of the entire strip which includes the hollyhocks, hence this giant image of the coneflower!! Just using fabrics on hand, so there is a mix of different varieties - Liberty, batiks, Fairy Frost, etc. etc.

[Marilyn M.]

Gosh!! I just clicked on the picture of the coneflower and found that the entire strip, including hollyhocks, is displayed. Technology!!

[NinaMarie]

Did you find the Batik fabric hard to hand applique?

[Susan M.]

[Monique G.]

Just finished month 4, just need to tack down a few Items

[Carol G.]

My first coneflower done. I had to redo the cone because it didn't cover the stem. I ended up sewing the light petals down first and then the darker ones. So much overlapping, I wasn't sure what order to sew them.
I'm using 80 wt Quilters Select medium gray thread for all my applique.

[Alice]

Carol, your method (sewing the light petals down first) is brilliant! Wish I thought of that. They look great too! I spent a lot of time trying to make them butt against each other(silly me, haha) and they don’t look as good as yours. Wonderful job!

[Jo Anne]

I have a lot of different varieties of coneflower in my gardens, so I tried to choose colors that I see in many of them. These colors look like my meadows coneflower.

[Helen W.]

Loving this project. The BOM's are always so fun. It is my chance to go off
in my own direction. HelenW

very pretty.

[laltmayer11]

Gorgeous colors and layout with the swirls! You have done a great job!

[Maritza L.]

[Barbara B.]

Nice. Did you intend to switch leaves at the bottom?

[Maritza L.]

Hi, Barbara. Initially it was an accident but then I decided not to fix it. It sort of sneaks up on you. :-)