Flower Power Quilt - VOILA!

Here it is. My Flower Power quilt. It has been waiting to be finished for weeks. I have a tendency to get distracted, start on new projects before I finish one. Anyone who does the same?

Fabric are all recycled vintage sheets bought from Jennie at Sosovintage. She was so kind to put together a stash builder mystery assortment with only flower power flavors and to compliment that I also got a mix of 6inch ready cut squares on the same theme. And how well it turned out..

The backing is a thrift store find. A paisley pattern recycled bed sheet. As I needed to cut two pieces of it to cover the back I used a row of my left over squares to piece them together nicely.

I kept some big squares being surrounded by 6 inch squares. I pieced it in blocks and then assembled all the blocks one by one. Framed it all with 6" squares as I wanted the quilt to be a bit bigger.

After seeing a tutorial on how to make round corners over at A Quilt Is Nice I decided to give it a go.  It was a little bit tricky but worked out well. As an addition to her great tutorial I have to mention that I did shorter the stitch some when getting to the corners (I read about this trick somewhere - can't remember where - sorry...) and that actually made it a bit easier.

I choose a simple straight line quilting, thought about hand quilting a bit in the big squares but naaahhh, flower power doesn't need hand quilting. I'll save that experiment to another quilt.

This quilt is for a very special friend of mine. A surprise for her 40th birthday. I think it will be perfect for her as she is the flower power girl in my life. We don't get to see each other that often anymore since I moved abroad, but still she is one of those people that will forever be dearly tucked in my heart and never forgotten. And I hope that this quilt will make her think of me every time she uses it. That way we will never be very far apart.

Ciao!

Annette