Anthologie Quilt – Working on the La Fleur Block – #3

The posts in this series are all part of the pattern, Anthologie.  These are not tutorials or how to videos, but are of me making this quilt.  It’s meant to be similar to a self guided quilt along and hopefully feel like we are making this quilt together (even if you are finding this years later).  Do tag me on Instagram (@southerncharmquilts)!  I’d love to see what you do with it.  🙂

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All Posts in this Series

1. Inspiration Collage
2. 9-Patches
3. La Fleur

 

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One block today!  One pretty big block.  And oh, how I love this block.  I wouldn’t mind a whole quilt of these.

Fabric I’m Using

• Dressing Room in Rouge
• Speckled in Sunstone
• Blossom in Honey
• Firefly in Bachelorette

 

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La Fleur Working Video

 

 

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Video Summary

This is one of my favorite blocks in Anthologie.  La Fleur is big and goes together fairly quickly.  The video shows me choosing the four fabrics, and shows me putting together the block.  I go into a bit of detail about how I use the diagonal seam tape to eliminate any need for me to draw lines on my squares.  This saves a lot of time!  I also go into about how I sewed the snowballed rectangles to the 9-patch and my points weren’t lining up because I was using the scant 1/4″ seam.  I swapped to a full 1/4″ seam and they came together nicely.

Referenced Tutorials

• Tutorial for the La Fleur block (password within the pattern)
• How to make half square triangles
• How to snowball corners
• How to use the diagonal seam tape
• Here’s a seam nesting explanation
• And here is my starch recipe.

 

 

 

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I’m probably going to pair down my fabric pull a bit, so I don’t get off kilter with my colors.  I had pulled way too many and I want to make sure that each fabric I use gets used in the quilt more than once (with the exception of the appliques), so it needs whittled down a bit.  Sometimes I get a little too excited pulling fabrics.  🙂

Also, note to self:  I need to be sure to use green in something else, so that I don’t have an eyesore with my green flower stalk in the appliques.  The greens I used in the 9-patches aren’t reading as very green when everything is together.  Otherwise, I’m pretty pleased.

Tag me on Instagram and show me your progress, @southerncharmquilts and use the #anthologiequilt.

Happy sewing!

 

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