Bramble Blooms QAL Step 2

I'm particpating in Audrey's (blog at Quilty Folk) Bramble Blooms Quilt Along. 

Step 2 is to add floral applique to the background center piece made in Step 1. 

My Step 1 blog post. 

In my Step 1 blog post I mentioned that I thought my flower would be some purple coneflowers. Well, coneflowers also come in other colors like orange (and yellow and white) so I will be appliqueing some purple and orange coneflowers to my background like you see above. I keep moving the leaves around so not sure where they will end up when and done. 

This is what I was thinking for layout but I don't want to mess with making bias cut stems to bend so my stems straightened up a bit from my first thoughts. 

Here's my coneflower doodling before I cut my paper template. I made a small template for the flower petals and cone and then used my printer to enlarge it for the bigger ones.   

I am using purple and orange scraps you see above for my coneflowers and the green scraps for my stems. The yellow with red polka dots will be the cone on the coneflower  My next step is to make freezer paper templates from my paper templates. I will iron them to the right side of fabric and cut out shapes leaving a scant 1/4 inch around and then do some needle turn applique.  So that is going to take me awhile but I know what direction I am headed and know the path to get to my destination. 

And sew on...