Ann's Needlepoint Projects that Provided the Basis for this Project

I am making thes pictures available to you ahead of when I had originally planned. Due to the eye problems I am having, I don't know how soon I will be able to get the instructions for making the flower decorations together and posted... might be a matter of days, might be considerably longer. Meantime, at least you can see what the end product is supposed to look like.

There are some dangers in taking ideas from small works and making them large. In this case, I really feel that the Cream squares on the quilt tops are a bit larger than they needed to be. Using the principles discussed in the Designing Variable Rectangle Quilts section, I would make them a bit smaller and compensate by adjusting other rectangles. On the other hand, you may like them.

Another change I would make if I were starting over would be to not use the cream at all! I think those large areas would have been nice with the lightest yellow, and would have added life to the quilt top. Well, you live and learn... that's why you do new projects.

Here are Ann's two needlepoint works:

I leave it to you to decide how close I did or didn't come to getting this effect from a 7 5/8" needlepoint to a 48" quilt top.

Here is the second needlepoint. The pattern is almost the same, but Ann has lightened some of the colors for a slightly softer effect. Note also that in my decoration instructions I would have made more pansies, rather than the sunflowers. I would have made them in the same colors, but as more pansies. I think the points on the sunflower leaves would be pretty difficult for beginners to applique using the fusible method. (Note: These needlepoints had not been blocked at the time I scanned them.)

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