Hibiscus Flower

 Yesterday was the day 

MELINDA BULA

taught a class through my quilt guild.

We did her Hibiscus pattern!

Gorgeous!

The pattern has complete instructions and pattern!

It was recommended to purchase her fabric kit...

Since I don't like my things looking like everyone else's...

I used fabric from FABRILISH!

This is all hand died fabrics.

It's not a solid or molted solid,

These hand dies are not uniform, you'll see in the next few pictures.

So, I roughly cut each pattern piece out

and pinned it to the color I wanted it to be.

YES!

This took a long time.

It would've been easier to buy the kit!

Here are some of my fabrics...

This is how I took my fabrics to class!

Everyone laughed at me!

We had a very short class after our guild meeting Tuesday.

Melinda gave us homework, IF you wanted to do it!

Homework:

Fuse your big flower petal fabrics,

cut them out.

I DID IT!

Since I already had all my pattern pieces pinned to my fabrics,

I fused most ALL my fabrics,

and cut out most ALL my pattern pieces.

I DID MORE!

Now, 

Let me tell you 

EVERYONE 

in class called me an over achiever!

HA!

I had an evil plan!!!

While they would be fusing and cutting out their pattern pieces,

I would be fusing mine together!

MY PLAN:

To have an almost completed flower by the time I left class!

Funny note:

Just before lunch,

One of the ladies said, "Nina, you might have been the smartest one of us all."

HA!

My little brain and hands 

have been working with scissors and fabrics since I can remember!

My thought was that I could cut it out 

without teacher supervision...just sayin!

Here it the flower with the base petals

AND

the center completed.

More color going on.

Adding more of those little pieces

I stayed up until 12:30am cutting out!

Honestly,

I DO NOT like that pink!

BUT...

I'm NOT taking it off!!!

This can be fixed during the thread painting stage.

The pink just needs to be more on the purplish side.

Then,

we auditioned background fabrics!

It was fun seeing what made different colored flowers POP!

These were the 3 backgrounds I tried:

I thought it would be cool to use a nontraditional background...

Like fabric with words? 

NOT!

Might have worked in a darker color though?

Dark colors usually make the lighter colors POP!

This one was just OFF!

This is another fabric from FABRILISH!

THAT'S IT!

How do you know if it's the RIGHT fabric?

YOU like it!

You're heart beats faster, 

you smile,

you react!

YOU LOVE IT!

(Nobody else has to like it but YOU!)

There are still pieces to finish adding,

and I do hope to get this flower totally fused by the end of this weekend.

This was SO much fun!

This will really come alive when it's thread painted!

WOOHOO!

THAT'S my favorite part!

Oh,

Melinda Bula is a DOLL!!!!

She's funny,

sweet,

encouraging,

kind!

Take her class!

YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!

Happy fusing!

Sew the pieces of life together!

They make a BEAUTIFUL YOU!!!

Nina