Applique Design

My mom and I shopped for these fabrics while in Illinois on the Cornerstone trip. She apparently has a kit to make something out of the same fabric line. I grabbed just a few fat quarters and freehanded this design (while sitting at a show at Cornerstone). I'm not totally in love with it - debating if it needs anything else to feel complete. It's about 9" square, and I figure we'll make it into a pillow or something to match mom's finished quilt. Right now, I call it "fireworks flowers" because the abstract flowers look a bit like fireworks to me.


The technique I used is needle-turn applique, using basting lines to mark where to turn the fabric (rather than templates -- I'm really not a template kind of person!) I've been trying to get better on sharp points (the above design has lots of them) - I can definitely tell which of the petals I stitched first and which came last. :) I think my next project needs to feature something with inside points (like a daisy, perhaps) because those have always been really hard for me to needle-turn correctly.