Here's the remake/update of the Flower Bouquets quilt I made in March 2020 that I promised to give you this week. I renamed it A Dozen Bouquets in November 2020 after the update.
The Story: A friend wanted this quilt for his mother, but needed it to be a California King size rather than a twin. Hmmm, an opportunity to learn a couple new things. OK. Let's do this!
I would have to unpick the binding and add 12" borders to all sides, plus add batting in the middle. After speed watching some YouTube videos and mulling it over for days, it came together in my mind.
One difficulty lay if matching fabric. Anyone who has bought fabric for a project, then changed what they wanted to do with the fabric they bought has probably encountered having to match colors that are no longer available. I had a little fabric left from making the quilt plus the stuff I trimmed off from the back after quilting it the last time, the binding strips I could used (no longer enough to do the new binding), plus about a yard of coordinating fabric that I never used. I found 1/2 yard of dark green that went with it and then added white to fill in the rest. I spent about 15 hours piecing and sewing those borders together and onto the quilt and adding more batting. Then it was ready to quilt.
Since this quilt was an opportunity to learn new things, I decided to try my hand at turning a quilt and matching a pantograph on the mitered corners. I then filled in the rest with echoes, lines and swirls. Threw on some white binding, a quilt label and it was done.
Note to self: It's is much easier to make a quilt in the correct order than change it after it's done. I'm glad to have tried and learned something new, but quite frankly, I don't think I want to make a habit of doing this kind of thing again.
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