In my first tute on the still life floral, we covered the basics of making the flowers and putting it altogether. On this second part of the tute, we will focus on the flower arranging aspect. We will show how to change this mini into a more dramatic and formal arrangement using the same fdn. piece, same vase but fewer of the same flowers. We are going to use the same vase because of the peace it brings to the still life.

Any time you have lots of prints together in a quilt , it helps to add either a plaid or stripe. This calms the senses and gives the eye a place to rest from all the mumbo-jumbo of the prints. Can you see how the plaid works so well here?

The next thing we will do is to establish our parameters since it will not be a sporadic arrangement as in the first mini, but a formal, more organized arrangement. Let's start by adding a flower to the right side of the vase and one on the left.

Next we will add a flower to the top of the mini to establish a heigth. We will try and keep the flowers within these three areas, but extend it a little so as to show fullness to the arrangement.

Now we are going to fill in the middle areas and trying to pay attn to the angles the flowers are facing so we have flowers that are facing in all directions just like in real life.

Here we have all 7 flowers we are using today filled in within the parameters we chose.

In the previous pic, noticed how I placed the big yellow flower on the left so it is facing outward to the left. By the way, this is a gorgeous looking flower that could have been used as a cntrpc because of its size, color, and depth of angles.

In the next pic, we are adding leaves by starting at the top and working downward.

Here in this next pic are more leaves added. The vase and all lvs were fussy cut. No pattern needed. Just do anything you want here and have fun with it.

Be sure and keep angles of the lvs in a pleasing format so as to create order. Add as many as you like wherever. Orange or red lvs would not have worked here because of clashing w/the fnd. pc. Keep this in mind when selecting your colors.

All leaves are now filled in.

Next we added a bow. It's great to see something in 3-D in quilts from time to time and a mini is a great place to start!

Here is the same arrangement only done with a different color leaf.