PICK A PETAL -- Show Your Finished Top Here

[Barbara B.]

So many are getting their Pick a Petal done early! Use this TOPIC so show off your completed top or quilt.

[Annette M.]

Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled it on my design wall. I quilted it on my domestic machine. I changed thread colors often. I quilted leaf veins on all the petal pieces but kept all the other motifs simple using mostly swirls and leaves. The binding is a faux binding brought over from the back (which is scrappy as well). I just trimmed the back to 1" larger than the front and then folded half an inch twice towards the front (to end up with a scant half inch binding). Thank you Barbara, for all your wonderful blog information and video posts. Thank you also to Helen W and other forum participants for your kind encouragement.

[Janet]

Just WOW!! I love the flower embroidery

Wow! Between the batiks and your embroidery it has a watercolor, painterly feel. I love it!

Beautiful work . You work very fast . Love your style.

[Marge P.]

Beautiful!! Enjoy your quilt...

[Toni E.]

Impressive! I love the way you've made it distinctly yours.

[Connie H.]

To quote Barbara....."and that's a wrap!" Such a fun journey.

[Helen W.]

ConnieH. What a winner!!! HelenW

[Janet]

Beautiful colors and applique

I love this Beautiful

[Barbara G.]

Ready for quilting. I had fun adding the ric rack vine, flowers and birds to log cabin blocks. Now to make the backing. I am going to add all extra blocks and pieces to the backing. There will be some hand and machine quilting involved.

[Helen W.]

BarbaraG. Love your vine blocks. Any chance you could take a close up of a couple of the vine
blocks? When I click on your photo it does not do the zoom function for some reason. Great looking
quilt! HelenW

Love it! The birds are so whimsical

[Janet]

Beautiful, love the birds

[Lynn H.]

Still trying to decide how to quilt this….

[Monique G.]

I decided that my quilt was ready to be quilted. The fabrics just didn't speak to me to continue another round. In the yellow section of the quilt I found decorative wooden buttons to tie the look together. I also watched the recent "Master Class" and really liked Patricia Belyea's way of Facing her quilts. So I decided to try this. I used a single layer (instead of double) and I mitered the corners. I loved the overall look at the back of the quilt with this idea. I found that the design of the fabric I choose was probably not the best for this project, but the fabric truly spoke to me in terms of what was going to work and what wasn't. I'm glad to have started this quilt project but I glad it is also done.

[Janet]

Interesting how we can start with the same pattern and have such different quilts. Beauriful

[Helen W.]

Monique G. Love, love, love the way your top ended up. I just watched the masterclass on bindings
and finishes, but only made it to the start of facing technique. I loved the first way of putting on
binding. I plan to try the single fold instead of double fold on my Pick A Petal. I have been
dragging my feet on finishing it. I am in the process of making the fan blocks and have one side
done. HelenW

[Connie H.]

Your quilt is beautiful….very dramatic! Love your colors, fabrics, and the block patterns you used!

[Monique G.]

This is a closeup of the backside with the facing. An interesting "Learn"!

[Diana L.]

I like the Block of the Month for 2024. I hand stitched the 2 center sections but machine sewed the rest. I'm not to into doing appliqué so I embroidered flowers on each log cabin block.After I was all done with the embroidery I noticed I had forgotten to turn the log cabin block so the embroidery was on the side that would have the darker fabric on the outside. Oh we'll I still think it is unique. I added the dark green stripes between the sections because my eyes just saw something else was needed. I just added a stripped border to finish the design. I just need to quilt on the longerm!

[Connie H.]

It is beautiful, Diana! Love your color use!

[Janet]

Your log cabins and embroidery really stand out with the darker fabrics surrounding them. Lovely

[Helen W.]

I like the Block of the Month for 2024. I hand stitched the 2 center sections but machine sewed the rest. I'm not to into doing appliqué so I embroidered flowers on each log cabin block.After I was all done with the embroidery I noticed I had forgotten to turn the log cabin block so the embroidery was on the side that would have the darker fabric on the outside. Oh we'll I still think it is unique. I added the dark green stripes between the sections because my eyes just saw something else was needed. I just added a stripped border to finish the design. I just need to quilt on the longerm!

Diana L, Your personal version of Pick A Petal looks great. I do like the solid colored borders that make the log cabin blocks more
distinct. The embroidery flowers look great too. Barbara Black does have a topic in the forum for finished tops. Maybe
she could move your post there so more people will see it. Great job, I am still working on my fan final border. HelenW

awsome job everyone

[Susanne M.]

I’m really happy with my finished quilt top. I didn’t realize how large 72” would be and my first thought when it was together was the line from “Jaws”: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

With all the curves, the top is mostly hand-pieced. Appliqué is turned edge by hand. I used a different Jen Kingwell block for the inside corners. The outside corners are an old block I found in Barbara Brackman’s encyclopedia. It just seemed to fit.

[Jo Anne]

Here is my quilt top sandwich ready to be quilted. I just barely started to hand quilt the other night as I watched tv. Right now I am just doing a running stitch around the fans with 3 rows of running stitch on the inner part of the fans. I’ll decide what else I’ll do as I go!

[Barbara B.]

What a lovely quilt!

[Sheridan D.]

Love your colours, so soft and pretty. Beautiful job.

[Jo Anne]

Thank you!