yucca blooms

fringed daisy

daylilies

cone flower

coreopsis

                                            a few flowers from my back yard



My entry for this year's President's challenge at guild.  Black, white and a color that we picked from paint chips at an earlier meeting.  I pick blue.  The background fabric is purchased.  Three of the flowers have 3-D applique with french knots covering the centers, the petals are accented with ink and colored pencil.  The butterfly wings are a heavy interfacing fused with two layers of fabric.  The top fabric has Shiva oil paint and crystals, there is a thin wire satin stitched on the edge of the wings to hold them up.  The body is fabic fused on Peltex, satin stitched on the edge and crystals added.  I think it turned out really well.

Block A finished.  Mine is on the left, Cindy Olson's is on the right.  The pattern is Exploding Star by Tea Mahone of Tea Quilts.

Block A laid out, ready to sew

trimming down half-square triangles

  

Randi making sure nothing gets away