This is a beautiful colorway.

I recently saw one at the Amish quilt shop I buy supplies from (dirt cheap!). It was in a blue colorway with a white background. There were swans, butterflies, and birds hand quilted into the white. It was fabulous. I wanted to take pictures, but didn't want to affend the wonderful lady that answered all my silly questions about it. Besides, she gave me a gigantic donut she'd just removed from the fryer and glazed. :)

Sooo Beautiful, don't see a blooming thing wrong with it :D You did an awesome job on it and cannot wait to see the picture when it is hanging on your wall!!!

Cathe, I've been thinking about this for a long time (or at least when I saw your beautiful work) and now that I’m starting to work with circles (curves) I think I’ll think some more. Maybe in the future…

I found this site with directions, are they close to what you used? It keeps redirecting me to another page, but should work:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6349/PatBlueDahlia.html

I also saw this site with a mini Dahlia and liked the results too:

http://www.minisbycarol.com/dahlia.htm

WOW!! Gorgeous!! I'd not attempt that, nope, not me. But I sure do love looking at them!!

Wonderful! You are a talented color and fabric chooser!

Cathe, That is just beautiful!! I have a question for you as you seem to be wise in these matters. How can you tell if a pattern is copyrighted if it doesn't say copyrighted on the pattern? Usually sites have protection to make it so that you can't copy if your not supposed to don't they? I would like to know how to tell the difference.

That's really pretty!!

So pretty - too hard for me!!!!

that is so lovely and i too love the colors.