A Sweet Little Bouquet of Flowers

 

It's a finish!

A Sweet Bouquet

40 x 48

I was given the beautiful applique blocks by a nice lady who just loves to applique. I alternated them with 9.5 inch squares to make a top back in November 2025.

I've only made a few quilts with applique and I hand quilted those. I wasn't sure if I should quilt over the top of applique so I just pretended they were beautiful pieced blocks. I didn't want my quilting to ruin or overpower the blocks. I practiced four petal flowers on the quilt I blogged about yesterday so I would be a little better at it for this quilt. I had a variegated cotton thread called Wildflowers in all the colors of this quilt so I decided it was meant to be. 

The yellow binding added some sunshine and there's more flowers on the back. Now it is ready to comfort a sweet little one.

And sew on...

A little quilting marathon is going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives both foreign and domestic...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all.