Flower Quilt Blocks

This bright flower quilt block reminded me of spring in my garden.

Flower Quilt Blocks

Spring is one of my favorite seasons to spend in my garden, it reminds me of all of the wonderful colors I liked to add to some of the custom quilts and throws we have made over the years. I was reminded of my spring garden when I saw this bright daisy quilt block, the colors one of the favorite combinations I have.

This applique daisy was the first flower quilt block that caught my eye at the store.

Picking quilt colors can be a challenge. Whenever I was not sure, all I had to do was look out of my window or take a walk through my flowers, and there nature would suggest a color combination and often offer an obvious solution.

As I was wandering through the stacks of fabric as I would my garden, the orange and yellow applique daisy at the fabric store was the first floral quilt block to catch my eye. A friend and I had stopped on our way home, one of those leisurely days of stopping whenever we felt like it and a fabric and quilt store was definitely on our must do list.

Applique daisy flower on a white cotton background quilt block.

Then I noticed several other floral quilt blocks hanging next to it, all different flowers. I felt quite at home, my garden is a giant cottage garden, each flower bed a collection of native and rescued flowers that are welcome to stay if they are happily settled in where I have placed them.

Except for the strawberries. I keep having to bring the strawberries back up the hill every couple of years but not before I lecture them about leaving the comfort and safety of my property. I mean, there are mean turtles out there who will eat the whole plants, at least in my garden they will just take the fruit.

The strawberry-colored flower on the left reminded me this was the year I need to check on my errant strawberry plants.

Two more floral quilt blocks add bright colors to the possible quilt design.

One of the more traditional floral quilts was an album quilt, featuring a different quilt block with no two blocks the same. I used to love to look at those quilts, marveling at the time it took to make each one of those different individual blocks.

There is some marvel associated with these blocks, too. None of these two blocks are the same, either. Each one of these floral blocks have a unique finish, as well as fabric combination.

Two of my favorite flower shapes, the daisy, on a more traditional, the other more modern.

So here's the fun part, once you were ready to put the blocks together, would you use the pink with a yellow center; a floral border, the floral vine or just the tiny flowers in the corner?

Flower quilt blocks now pulled together almost as a quilt. Almost, but not quite!

I would be tempted to use the flower vine to tie all of the blocks together but then I try not to add anything that competes with the flowers in the blocks themselves.

What do you think, or should the sashing be a simple white with the floral vine on the outside?

Charlotte