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Coneflower Biscornu


It seems like I've been working on this for months and it is finally done!

This biscornu was a complete accident.  I was trying to design something else and the end result looked more like a coneflower than what I was trying to design, especially when I changed the color to bright pink.



I love coneflowers and you can probably tell that based on the picture which is currently at the top of this blog.  Every year I scatter more seed and a few more coneflowers grow in my garden.

As often happens, in this design I combine my love of flowers with my love of quilts.

I've just finished going through my copy of "1000 Great Quilt Blocks" and didn't see this one.  If I pieced it, it would be a Log Cabin or a Cornerstone variation.  Like Log Cabin, the blocks can be arranged in many different patterns (and I had fun experimenting).



One side of the biscornu has the quilt blocks in the center and the coneflowers on the outside.  On the flip side, the coneflowers are in the center and the quilt blocks create a frame.



Pink and green are great complements to each other.  I took the colors directly from the coneflowers.  For an accent color I added a wild yellow-green.  It isn't quite the color of the coneflower centers but it goes great with the other two colors.  I do appologize for having a few stitches of the yellow here and there.  I don't like stitching such small bits but I really like the way it looked so ease of stitching was sacrificed for looks.

This is the second biscornu that I have finished.  This one went so much smoother than the first one.  First, I used antique white material and secondly I knew what I was doing this time.  This biscornu has 3 inch stitched squares so it was significantly smaller than the first one.  I'm not sure I'd make one of the really tiny ones, but this one was no problem.

I didn't think I'd find a good bead or button for the center but I was wrong.  This is a Raspberry Gelato Tints 3/8" button from JHB International, Inc.  I put all that information into the pattern, but then that information gets stripped out when it gets published to the web.  Grrrr.  Supposedly that will be fixed soon.

This pattern is available for purchase at http://www.patternsonline.com/.

It's a beautiful day and when I checked yesterday the coneflowers leaves are beginning to poke out of the ground.  It's time to start cleaning the garden and stop sitting at the computer.  Soon it will look like the garden in the picture again.
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  1. KarenApril 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM

    How lovely this turned out!! Lots of work there but you got done, should be proud of yourself!!

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  2. UnknownApril 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM

    This is really pretty. Very nice work.

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