LE: Vases 3 & 4, the yellow flowers

These last two vases just flew into being finished. 

I really loved working with the sunshiny yellow too.

I'm so glad I found this fabric for fussy cutting the flowers

and this cute print for a little bit of broderie perse

Here I am, auditioning the fabric for the best spots to pick. You can see that this print from my stash is actually a flower print, so the colour graduations are just lovely. 

 working from the pattern as a guide

 fussy cutting the tones I wanted to use

 creating blooms full of tone variation and 'life'

this one is so sweet

and overall, I love the look and it all balances with my compass and fabrics.

I've completed my four vases and I'm so pleased with how they look. My center is done now. It feels remarkable to have reached this point. It's been exhausting at times and when I hold this center square of fabric, I can't believe how much time, work and labour has gone into creating it. I have a bit of hand stitchery to do for embellishing and about a 2 weeks worth of hand sewing to stitch all the applique down into position. What you see here is mostly held into position with Elmer's Glue in disappearing purple. This is a starch based glue which simply washes away. I use it all the time - actually its the only glue I use for applique when quilting. That's the calm before my storm. Which storm? My creativity storm for the borders! I can't wait!