WOW: Travel WIP 3

WOW = WIPs On Wednesdays

Roses and Ruins

Do these steps speak to you as much as they speak to me??

I'll have to revisit this postcard when I get back home

to show you some more, it's a real treat.

Doesn't matter where I am in the world,
I can't pass up photographing roses.

Aren't all roses the same? No, they aren't.

I can tell you just by looking at photos of roses
that are years old, exactly where they were taken.

Poppy, details

Poppy

This is a block from Part 5 of my free 2012 Mystery BOM Forget Me Not 

When I decided to make 2x of my Mystery Bom at the same time - a light and a dark background, I thought I might struggle to decide which block to use for the light, and which to use for the black.

It was a real theoretical dilemma, because often finding the right hues for just one block can take hours....

But, I have been pleasantly surprised and have found that the flowers really speak for themselves, each month I know immediately which will be the light and which will be the dark quilt.

Of course, you can have delicate pastel poppies too, but I went for vivid colours for my black background quilt.

This is a block from Part 5

of my free 2012 Mystery BOM Forget Me Not

You can download this month's block via my website or my Yahoo Bom Group 

Forget Me Not, details

Forget Me Not

This is a block from Part 5 of my free 2012 Mystery BOM Forget Me Not

This block was a real pleasure to make

There's just something so joyous about a bunch of forget me nots. Of course, being so tiny and so many hundred being in a bunch, I have stylised the design into more of an interpretation! Being the namesake block of the quilt, I thought it was fitting that my plum bird make it into the design too.

I hope you love this block as much as I do

Select fabrics to compliment your background

I cut away my stem after stitching the inside shape and lines in,

it's so much easier this way

 the little forget me nots in a bright sky blue

 the plum bird

(well all my quilts have a bird in the design somewhere)

 tiny yellow centres

I think the forget me not centres are calling out for

embroidery knots or small beads

putting them in place with tweezers!

This is a block from Part 4 of my free 2012 Mystery BOM Forget Me Not

You can download this month's block via my website or my Yahoo Bom Group 

Part 5 is Launched

This month you have the option of

Forget Me Not

Poppy

Here are the pattern sketches. Remember, colour in your patterns before commiting to fabrics.

Stay tuned as detailed block images and working pics will be posted tomorrow.

Also, remember to check out the Yahoo Group to see what we are all talking about over there!

Forget Me Not is my 2012 Mystery BOM

 

Anyone can take part.

 

Each monthly block is available for download via my

website and Yahoo BOM Group only.

  

To learn more about my BOMs, click here.