Flower Bouquets

Flower Bouquets is a complete delight from beginning to end. It was easy to piece, beautiful to look at, and the quilting process was so much fun. It was such a joy to execute this quilt! Both the pattern and the fabric is by Vanessa Christenson of V and Co.

I adore Vanessa's ombre collections and previously, I've made Glass Candies which was a metallic ombre collection. This time the fabric has a bonatical design, making it perfect for the pattern. Working with her ombre fabrics is always enjoyable because the colors are so lovely and they glow. There are rainbows I like and rainbows I don't, but Vanessa's palettes definitely fall into the former.

When faced with so much background fabric, my favorite thing to do is to mark out different areas and put different designs in them. I especially like to juxtapose straight line designs with swirls, as the contrast makes each stand out more.

As always I kept the design fairly simple in the colored fabrics, but quilted very densely around it. The only tricky part was getting into the nooks and crannies, but swirls are flexible enough that it can be done.

This was such an enjoyable and relaxing quilt to longarm that I was almost sad to take it off the frame! Almost.