Finishing the Project for National Quilting Day
from From My Carolina Home
On to the finish, the final part of the project was to add the completed flowers to the base. I wanted these to be as dimensional as the leaves. I placed the flower on the base at the end of the stem and pinned the center. Then to see how it would look, I lifted the petals and pinned only the tips down.
Then I pinned down the other two flowers on their stems.
Folding back the petals, I stitched only around the center underside, leaving most of the petal free.
Continuing around the center in a kind of squared ...
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