Daylilies. I decided one block if I hate it, I can have a pass on this quilt.

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1 Daylilies You might remember that sometime in the last month or so that I wrote a blog post asking if any of you had ever made every quilt in a quilt book. The idea has stuck with me and that s exactly what I m going to attempt. I m even giving myself a goal.that means I am serious. If you missed that post it s here. Here s my plan. I am taking Bonnie Hunter s String Fling book and am making EVERY quilt in the book. Here s where I was at the last tally. There are 13 quilts in the book. I have 8 completely finished. I have the 2 Zuckerwatte quilts done now I have Pineapple Crazy pretty far along. I have three not started. That has since changed. The two Zuckerwatte quilts are almost finished.and the other three formerly not started quilts have some progress.not a lot but some. Today I m going to tell you a little bit about my experience with the quilt Daylilies from the book. The quilt has had me a little intimidated.correction. A lot intimidated. I decided one block if I hate it, I can have a pass on this quilt.

2 I like quilting for ease. I don t pick quilts with in-set seams. I don t pick quilts with applique. I decided that I would make one block. If I hated it, I wouldn t make it but I had to give one block a fair try.here s what happened. I cut out one block and sewed it when Connie, Jody and Kelli came for a quilting day. I figured I might need a little moral support It turns out I didn t have a problem sewing the inset seams at all BUT I did have another problem that I overcame. I was using batiks so it s harder to orient the blocks the right way as with batiks there is no right or wrong side. I had to rip once but got the pieces turned the right way. Then I ended up with a different problem. There is an incorrect measurement listed in the directions. The corner block with the flowers needs to be cut at 2 1/2 not the 2 I tried and tried but there is no way the 2 piece works in the corner of the flower block. You might want to make that correction in your book. Once I got that figured out I was in business and working on the block making the other matching flower blocks needed to make the large flower block. I felt really comfortable with

3 the inset seams and was not longer worried about that part of the block at all. I set that all aside happy that I might be about to tackle this quilt. Next up on a day in the future I planned to tackle the applique. That day came the next day during nap time. I had dug around, sure that I had some applique bars that would help me make the stems. I had bought them YEARS ago and didn t remember using them. I figured out that I wanted the strips to be 3/8 wide. That left me cutting bias strips 1 1/4 wide.

4 I put the rod in and manipulated the fabric so the seam was in the back.

5 I pressed and then pulled the rod out and pressed again.

6 Now it was time to figure out how to place the applique pieces on the fabric. I ironed my fabric on the diagonal. That left me with a guide of where to place the main stem.

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8 I ended up making a dot 5 1/2 up from the bottom corner. That left me with a place to start the curved stem at. Then I checked I and measured 2 1/4 down from the upper corner. This is necessary so that I can have the stem in the right place when it meets up the the flower part of the block.

9 In the end I pinned the pieces in place like this.

10 From there I made a master block so that if in case I want to make this whole quilt of these blocks, I ll have a guide.

11 The next day over nap time I stitched it all in place. Then that night, I got brave and sewed it all together!! Here s how my block looks.

12 The process of making this block wasn t too bad. I did it and it didn t kill me! I still have to add the leaves but that s doable. I think I am going to go for it and tackle this quilt. I can work on the applique during nap time if I want. As you can see I m going to do it in batiks can you believe I ve already got a project box started for it.

13 I m not rushing through this one but hope to get some prep work done so that I can stitch them in the evenings once Hubby s done with harvest and we watch television a few evenings if I decide not to do it during nap time. So with that, it looks like I started another project!!