Hallelujah Sunday No. 10 - Dresden Flowers

Spring is still a long ways off here in the Rocky Mountains but hopefully you'll enjoy seeing some spring colors in my FINALLY COMPLETE Dresden Quilt. I am thrilled to have this project wrapped up and displayed on my bed (my new refurbished bedroom)! This quilt is very special, I started the flowers when my mother was living and I would sit by her bed hand stitching each flower to a muslin square. 

 I had planned to stitch more than twenty blocks but I only had enough of the treasured vintage purple fabric for the center circle for twenty. The Dresden squares were stitched together in 2004. This Fall when I was painting my bedroom, the colors inspired by the Fall 2011 issue of the on-line magazine House of Fifty, I knew I just had to finish the quilt, to add to all the new bedding. 

Now before you get too excited, I have to confess, I enjoy piecing quilts but not necessarily quilting quilts. I had help from a friend of my step-mother's who did a wonderful job with the long arm quilting. I did do the scalloped edge, sewed on the binding (bias binding - I should mention) and of course, I did all of the embroidery, which is my signature style. I hope you enjoy the snapshots and I'm so glad you stopped by to see these colorful "flowers'.