Every once in a while there comes a quilt pattern book which'll dramatically change what you're piecing. Pieced Flowers is one of these books. Once you've paged through this book, you'll find yourself going back to the five pages next to the contents where all the flower types are displayed, trying to decide where to start. There're campanulas, columbine, cosmos, daisies, day lilies, hollyhocks, morning glories, irises, roses and sweet peas. (View a couple of photos from the book with this link.) My favourite flowers are irises, but the cosmos and daisies remind me so of my grandmother's garden, how can I not make her something with them on first?
Ten pieced flower designs are given in different styles (curved seams, straight seams, inset seams, asymmetrical, symmetrical, with flaps), making a total of 55 block patterns. Each pattern has a photo of the completed flower, a template (which need to be enlarged on a photocopier) and sewing instructions for the order of piecing, in short, everything you need to recreate the designs. Curved seam patterns even have arrows indicating the direction to piece the seam allowance.
Pieced Flowers is a companion volume to McDowell's Piecing: Expanding the Basics but thoughtfully its appendix has an excerpt from the latter book detailing how to piece curved, inset and Y seams plus flaps, so any piecer with a little experience can read up on the techniques, then tackle the "tougher" piecing patterns and not stick to the straight-seamed ones.
If you're a quilter with any love for flowers, you have to get this book and make yourself a fabric flower garden.
Pieced Flowers is published by C&T Publishing, ISBN 1-57120-091-6
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