I wondered and planned and fretted about how I might strongly stabilize a quilt so it would hold up a bunch of crocheted flowers.
As the work progressed, my original vision developed. Instead of crocheting with yarn, I decided to use No. 10 crochet cotton. The flowers turned out to be so light, the quilt didn’t need extra stabilizing. Yay!
I used Aunt Lydia’s No. 10 crochet cotton to make the Five Point flower from Crochet Bouquet (above), and Forget Me Nots from Crochet Garden (below). The colors were perfect!
You can use crocheted flowers to embellish bed quilts, too. To attach them, use sewing thread to sew all around the flower’s edge. Tack down the flower center. Use your judgement whether you need to add more stitching inside the edges of the flower.
Most of the time, sewing thread disappears between the loops of crochet, but use a sewing thread that closely matches the color of your crochet thread or yarn.
The wall hanging is called Evolution of Minimalism. I’m making it to enter in a juried show with an evolution theme.
You can crochet three different sizes of flowers from the Five Point pattern, with one size growing out of the previous one. To me, that is a visual way to show how something might develop over time.
The quilt design also goes from plain to fancy, a sort of visual evolution. Here’s a peek at one of the steps in this wall hanging’s evolution.
