Four Patch Posy Completed

After hours and hours of quilting, the Four Patch Posy quilt are finally finished.

 As usual I combined free motion quilting with machine embroidery.

Feathers was done using the walking foot for the shaft which was filled with pebbles.

Quilting designs from Stitchdelight was used in the triangles.

These designs are part of The Patchwork Star and can be found here.

The narrow green border was done with the walking foot.  

For the black grid, I used this Generic Red Line Sewing Presser Foot that I bought from Fabric8.

The outside green border as well as the binding was done with some decorative stitches.

The posies were quilted with stippling (meandering).

Four Patch Posie (2)

This was an extremely fast quilt to stitch, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The top with all borders is done and ready for the quilting process.

I used up all four pattern repeats with the 9 posies with no blocks left for the four corners, so I had to figure out a solution.

Back to our local Elna dealer I went for an additional piece of the red hibiscus fabric.  Continuing with the green and black fabric through the corners and adding the hibiscus fabric to each outside corner, I was able to overcome the problem without it looking strange.

Four patch posy

Last year when our quilting group discussed projects for 2024, the Four Patch Posy was one of the possibilities mentioned. So off to the shops to find 4 repeats of a floral fabric with large motifs and a dark background.  One would have thought it is a rather simple task, but I rather struggled to find a piece that met all the requirements.  I finally settled on red hibiscus flowers printed on a black background.

Under the guidance of one of our members, Elsa, we all got cutting our fabrics.  With Elsa's help I was able to use the whole one meter piece I bought with minimum waste. As the flowers are so big and prominent, I cut 6" blocks whereas the other ladies cut 4" blocks.  The pattern is a simplified kaleidoscope with four identical blocks making up one posy.

I wasn't really happy with my choice of fabric when I initially started laying out the blocks as it didn't have the prominent kaleidoscope effect, but I do think the 9 blocks turned out quite beautiful in the end.