Petal Tiles - Part 3

Here they are, all 16 of them ready to be trimmed and sewn together.  But, wait, I don't want to just sew them together with the white edges touching each other.  This seems boring to me, so I go to work figuring out what is best.  I love the Kaffe Fassett fabrics and have a lot of them in the full range of colors which were used in all of these blocks along with other designers that worked well.

After throwing them on the floor and arranging a few fabrics between blocks, I decided I didn't like using just one fabric for all the sashing strips, however I did use the same corner stone fabric for each intersection, but a different color of KF's paperweight design for each sashing strip.

Blue is my absolute favorite color, so I went with the blue snail KF fabric in the final outer border.  I fussy cut the cabbage rose fabric for each outer corner square.  So, this is the top ready to be sandwiched.

Now, I've got it all sandwiched and pin basted ready to quilt on my machine.  A simple design like around each petal in the white grout  and echoing to the sashing strips is what I have in mind.  All done in free motion quilting as I am not patient enough to draw out any lines or designs.

The border may have a feather design for each side of the quilt, think that will go well with the swirly shapes of the petals.  Even that won't be drawn, I will just sew a curvy center line from one corner to the other all around the border, then start free hand sewing the feather shapes.

I estimated almost 200 different fabrics went into this quilt, so it would be a great scrap buster design.

Not finished yet, but I wanted to see how it looked on my bed.  Have a great sewing day.  :o)