I'm on a hot tear now trying to perfect my Folded Dahlia. I made a green one yest. using new measurements somebody gave me yest. Now Fay has told me a chg. for my folds so I will have to do that with the next one.

Lovely.

They are sprouting up all over the place and I find them very intriguing.

They are a challenge but fun. Once I put all of the info. I've learned this wk. from board members mine should turn out better. Once you start constructing one, you don't want to stop til all 8 sections are done.
I thought my first one (the pink/burgandy one) would just be a practice pc. but it turned out beaut.

beautiful, never seen that pattern before, thanks for sharing :)

Those are very pretty!! :)

wow, now this is so lovely

Beautiful. :):):)

Very pretty!

They look great and I like both colors.

These are amazing. My sister loves dahlias; I may have to learn this technique and create one for her. Thank you for sharing.

Did you try it using less fabric like I suggested? Hope the measurements I posted helped. It is absolutely gorgeous.

Thanks,
Sherryl
Candlequilter

Very nice! Never seen them b-4!

A tutorial please....

I think yours is really really nice, they look so good. I did one something similar - but smaller - in Christmas fabric ( please see my Avatar ) and they are very addictive !! Great !!

LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are doing great..love your colors too

The technique was first brought to this board by tothenci. Her source tutorial, however, was in Hungarian.

dungeonquilter then went ahead and wrote a detailed version (with fabulous pictures) in English as she made her first Dahlia.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-116058-1.htm
Click on the link at the top of this tutorial - it goes back to tothenci's original post and includes great pictures of her fabulous Dahlias.

And the other day candlequilter tried it using a reduced amount of fabric to cut down on the bulk. Her results are here:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-118265-1.htm

Thank you for reposting those links. I was going to ask for them :-)

Those are lovely, and thanks for doing all my practicing for me :lol: I'm going to try one now that the kinks have been worked out.

So pretty!! My Grandma had done a couple of pillows like this back in the 60's and I had completely forgotten about them until I saw yours.
Good job!

oh wow................so jealous :roll: :lol: :thumbup:

Hi Sherril,
Yes I used your measurements. It did create less bulk so it was a little flatter. Still has a little puff which I like. Thanks so much for your help.

Next one, I will do different folds to see if that's why my pcs. don't meet. I finally fanned ea. one out a little as I went to make them overlap.

I'm so grateful for the help I've gotten with this. I hope it encourages others to try this now.

Real pretty.

Sewfine

Oooo another beauty :D:D:D