Friday, May 1, 2015

Floral Bow Ties

Happy May Day!  Where has the time gone?!  This month it's my turn to be in charge of the blocks of our Wish Circle for do.Good Stitches.  I've been trying to be better about using fabric I already have.  Someone gave me a ton of this fabric and it's been sitting in a stack for several years now.  I decided to use it as the backing for the quilt and base the colors of the front on this fabric.
The block is fairly simple, but very versatile since you can use any of the colors as the background.  It's a Bow-Tie Block (tutorial here).  Here are my two example blocks: