Is The Happy Daisy quilt on your bucket list?
07-30-2014, 07:09 PM
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This is on my bucket list--I have the steam-a-seam shapes traced and cut out--I am going to have my stems all on the same side--but thank you for the warning.
If so, please don't make the mistake I did. 
I knew I needed 20 blocks so I chose 10 fabrics and did a "lefty" stem and "righty" stem from each color. I didn’t think it through: three rows of 4 blocks is twelve and two rows of 4 blocks is eight. I made 10 of each which doesn't work.
As you can see, when I put them on my design wall I am missing two "lefty" stems (and, yes, I have two "righty" stemmed flowers that will not be used).
I hope this post saves someone from having to make more blocks when they thought they were done!
I knew I needed 20 blocks so I chose 10 fabrics and did a "lefty" stem and "righty" stem from each color. I didn’t think it through: three rows of 4 blocks is twelve and two rows of 4 blocks is eight. I made 10 of each which doesn't work.As you can see, when I put them on my design wall I am missing two "lefty" stems (and, yes, I have two "righty" stemmed flowers that will not be used).
I hope this post saves someone from having to make more blocks when they thought they were done!
07-31-2014, 07:52 AM
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I think you reason you can't just put something else in there is because you also have to deal with the colors in the background. If you put a lefty (or a righty) where it doesn't belong, the light and dark colors won't land where they are supposed to. You would need to turn the flower upside down to get those colors right. Did we just make a new design? ? ? It's probably best to make two new ones, like she is planning.
07-31-2014, 09:00 AM
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I think you reason you can't just put something else in there is because you also have to deal with the colors in the background. If you put a lefty (or a righty) where it doesn't belong, the light and dark colors won't land where they are supposed to. You would need to turn the flower upside down to get those colors right. Did we just make a new design? ? ? It's probably best to make two new ones, like she is planning.
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I have made the two new blocks and it is still on the design wall being tweeked for block color placement.
07-31-2014, 03:13 PM
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The only thing on my bucket list is to sing "God Bless America" at a Philadelphia Flyers game! Does everyone remember Kate Smith? She never even used a microphone!
This daisy pattern is very nice...where did you get the pattern?
This daisy pattern is very nice...where did you get the pattern?
07-31-2014, 04:41 PM
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There is no pattern that I know of. If you do a search on this board for the Happy Daisy quilt you will find a few posts on it. That's how I first saw this quilt. When my friend said that this is the quilt she wanted, I just made my own templates and went from there.
08-01-2014, 12:35 PM
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I'd put the two "wrong" ones in the corner (and switch the red blocks so the whites are touching, like the whites do on the top. Actually I'd switch out one of those reds entirely so that it isn't two reds right next to each other.)
Or- don't consider them wasted blocks and put them on the back.
Or- don't consider them wasted blocks and put them on the back.
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