I fell in love with this pc. when I saw a cpl. posted on here. I couldn't wait to do one so here is mine. Since I didn't know what to do with it, I put a 2" border on it. To make it bulkier I put 2 layers of W&N in it.

I've tried sev. times to put in the pix but it just says "web page not found". I'll try again but if it doesn't show up, that's why.

Nope! not here!! :)

Pat! I was so looking forward to seeing it. I hope you can get the pic up soon!

Hi Lori, I was anxious to show you how I finished it. I'll try again here..

Here is a pix that's a little more close up. I love this pc. For now, I've laid it in the middle of my bed on the top of my white comforter.

That came out gorgeous! Could be a table topper or a wall hanging! I just love this block. I like the shape, too.

G O R G E O U S!!!What lovely colors!!

That is Sew Nice ... great fabric choices! :thumbup:

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dar

Beautiful job on your folded dahlia. I make one yesterday to using the tute dragonquilter posted. I really liked it, but being the economic minded person that I am (especially with the price of fabric going up) I think I am going to try doing it again with smaller squares for the first 2 or 3 rounds and work up to the 6" square for the last round. If I find that I need more fullness I might cut a diamon shape of extra leftover batting to put in each petal. Once I try it that way I will post both pictures to let everyone know if it worked or not.

Thanks for sharing,
Sherryl
Candlequilter

Stunning......I especially like your fabric choices! :D :D :D :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

WOW it is beautiful..I have it on my to do list.

OMG how awesome!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Ok you have to tell me how you finished it so I can finish mine like that.....

This is beautiful!! Love it.

Gorgeous! It must look stunning a your white comforter.

Beautiful work. like your color choice.

Oh, I love your dahlia - I want to make one now.

That is one nice quilt

Sherryl, my fabrics were just pulled out of my stash & wasn't convinced they'd work. I have a feeling almost anything put together would look good.
I used dragonquilter's directions, too. but had a big prob. When I got down to the bottom 3 or 4 pcs. to put in, the bottoms wouldn't come together so I knew I was doing something wrong. Lori tried to help me but the only way I made it work was to fan out the lower pcs. to make them meet.
If somebody can clue me in on what I was doing wrong, I'd sure appreciate it. I'm excited about making another one but hope I can get around the prob. Lori's rows were perf. on her orange one.

All I did was to SID between the layered triangles about 3" up. Then ran a row of stitching about 1/4" around the outside edge to secure it. Then I cut 2 1/2" strips at a generous length & laid them across the "straight" edge between 2 points. It's slightly curved there but I made sure to do it from seam to seam across the sl. curve to sew it straight. Made sure I worked ea. one all in one direction as I went clear around. I had to unsew the first one on the beginning end so I could slip #8 under it so they'd all go in one direction.

I was nervous about binding the points but it actually was very easy. This Dahlia comes out very dimension which fascinates everybody. They're also heavy. As Lori said, too heavy to be a quilt I would think.

I think putting this border on would make it easier to put on a pillow, too.

Simply gorgeous! It makes me want to make one.

Wow! You did a beautiful job on this. I just love how it turned out. Great job.

When I first did mine using dragonquilters directions I started doing the double fold thing on all of the rounds instead of just the first one. I had the same thing as you where the ends didn't want to meet so I went back and re-read the directions and realized that you only do the double fold on the first row. Everything works out good then if you just do the single fold on all of the others.

Thanks,
Sherryl

I'm just loving this dahlia more & more each time I see it!
This is a beauty!
Maureen

What a wonderful job you did

That is awesome. So beautiful.

I discovered that, too. After doing single folds to begin with, I took a few off after being reminded to do the dbl. fold on the first row. I started doing the dbl. fold then found it wasn't really necessary. It didn't seem to make any difference when I blended my new dbl folds in with the previous single folds.

I hadn't caught that dbl fold in the directions.
I just don't see how dbl. folding the first row chgs. that spread. Tell me more. Lori's came out so perfectly that it's obvious I'm missing something. Guess I just have to do another one til my light bulb comes on. LOL

That is wonderful!!!

its beautiful

Oh Pat....that is absolutely gorgeous!!! I was just looking at the tutorial last night and to see your's today in my fav color....I can't wait to do one!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Well I just finished my second folded dahlia but instead of using 6" squares for all of it I started out with the first 4 rows using a 4 x 3 rectangle, then rows 5 and 6 I used a 5 x 4 rectangle and only on the last row did I use the 6" square and I think I could have used a 6 x 5 without any problem. On all of the rectangles I started out by pressing the top over just 1 inch instead of in half and then I pressed the long direction in half. I saved alot of fabric doing it this way and the finished flower weighs less than half of what the other one did. I did cut a 2" diamond out of left over batting to put under the center fold, but it really wasn't necessary because you still get some puff. I will post the 2 pictures tomorrow so you can see that there really isn't any difference except that you use less fabric that you don't end up seeing anyway.

Hope this makes sense.
Thanks,
Sherryl
Candlequilter

Can't wait to see the pictures and thanks for sharing this information. I am in the process of making my 2nd one and will try your way on my 3rd one. Less bulk would really be nice.

Awl - I wanna see it too. I also thought they were amazing but I have not yet tried it.

Gorgeous, :thumbup:

It's absolutely beautiful.

Beautiful!

WooHoo

Very pretty, and very unique. Have never seen this pattern before, and you did an excellent job!

Beautiful!

Beautiful !! You did a great job !! :-) :thumbup: