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I am Having  fun working on the flowers for my Garden of Forgetfulness quilt. They are all made from Liberty Tana Lawn prints in several shades of pink. There are a lot of pink roses in there! My finished La Pass top still needs a backing fabric, so I am working on this new project while trying to decide which fabric I will use. This quilt is from Willyne Hammerstein's book Millefiori Quilts 2 . 

After all the hand piecing, I decided to do some foundation paper piecing for my next quilt. Here is the result - Violet Craft's Elephant Abstractions with some Kaffe prints added here and there. I love the toes!

Woo hoo! this was a LOT of hand piecing.  I am remiss in my blogging. My La Pass quilt top is complete. Now I need to decide on the backing fabric and get 'er done. Here she is...

After looking at the large rosettes for this project, I decided that one of them did not go well with the others. My black and pink attempt to do an outer flower ring was a little bit blah compared to its three siblings so I ripped off the outer ring in preparation for using this as one of my smaller rosettes in the quilt. Then it was time to find some new Liberty Tana Lawn prints for the large rosette, so I went for the flowers! There are some sailboats and rabbits thrown in there for good measure. The rabbits are the small hexagon in the first ring of stars. Here is the new large rosette in progress. As always, the center of the rosette consists of the little creepy Cranford faces. I think I have just enough of this fabric to use in all of my rosettes, then it will be gone for good. Happy quilting! Susan

I have been playing catch-up with my La Passacaglia quilt rosettes after a summer of getting behind schedule with just about everything. All of my Liberty Tana Lawn fabric now lives in about 10 small bins, which makes it much easier to pick and choose which fabric to use. I have completed the bottom right quadrant of my quilt and joined the pieces. Here is that large, lower piece of the quilt, have a look! The next part I am working on is the lower right part of the quilt.  My plan is to put my completed tana lawn roses large rosette there and then surround it with smaller blocks.  Here is how that one plus the hot pink ladies looks with what I have already completed. Here are a few small rosettes that may find a home around those roses or may hang around and be placed in the top half of the quilt. We shall see! I really love this project.  I have acquired some very strange calluses on my hands from all this hand piecing/basting and hand stitching.  Gues

I have a lot of rosettes ready to be organized so I thought I would do a photo show in my post today!  Right now, there is only one large rosette with three smaller pieces attached: The other three large rosettes are ready as well. Then there are some smaller rosettes awaiting placement. I have several more smaller rosettes that are partially finished as I wait to see what I need where. Such a fun project! Susan