Originally Posted by AFW
I think it is all personal preference. Your quilt looks very nice. If you want it to look more like a flower, I would recommend a yellow center. I am working on hand quilting Grandmother's flower garden with a yellow center 1930's fabric and enjoying it very much. If you want to leave the brown, that's fine too. It is what YOU like.
I really wasn't trying to make this one look like a flower like Grandmother's flower garden. I decided to go with the dark blue center so it would pull the blue more into it. I thought the green worked in this one, but the blue almost looked like it didn't go. And since they are the fabrics this lady cut out so many years ago with her 2 daughters, I thought I really needed to use all of her fabric choices.
It has been rather difficult to make since it isn't anything I would have chosen. I think it is really sweet of the daughter (my principal) to have this made for her mom. It was a project the mom had planned on making for the daughter so many years ago as an aniversary present. But it was too overwhelming and it was never made. Now the daughter has decided to give it back to her mom as a mother's day gift. Sweet, don't you think... now if I can get it done!