Flea Market Flowers Sew Along - Week Three!!

Flea Market Flowers 

BLOCK "P"

Welcome to Week Three of the 

Flea Market Flowers 

Sew Along!

We are using my latest 

fabric collection called

Flea Market

It's designed by me ... 

and produced and distributed by the amazing 

Riley Blake Designs:)

We are making my quilt

FLEA MARKET FLOWERS

76" x 86"

We are using my 

PIE RULER

to make all of the flower petals...

This set of my 

CIRCLE RULERS

for all of the flower centers...

And we are also using my 

SEED RULERS

for all of the leaves in the quilt.

All of the other notions as well as fabric requirements are detailed within the 

Flea Market Flowers Sew Along Guide

CLICK HERE

for the free PDF Download

I also have a "Bee Prepared" blog post 

detailing everything that you will

 need to know about this sew along...

CLICK HERE

to go to that blog post 

if you have not read it 

or you need to be "refreshed"

 on any of the information!

As promised...

To kick off week one

 I did a video tutorial on my

 YouTube channel showing how to make 

Flea Market Flower 

BLOCK "M"

CLICK HERE

to go to that tutorial...

 so that you can make this cute flower!!

I also did a tutorial during 

week one right here

 on my blog for

Block "L"

CLICK HERE

to go to week one and this block tutorial:)

As part of week two 

I did the tutorial here for  

Block "O"

CLICK HERE

For that tutorial

BLOCK "I" 

is also in the week two tutorial:)

Today we are going to start of with 

BLOCK "P"

You will need to make three - 

6 1/2" Flea Market Flowers

To make Block "P" you will need:

6 - small leaves

3 - 2" circles

3 - 1/4" stems cut 6" long 

with one end pressed under

Background cut - 14" x 20"

You will need to cut 

two - 3" tall strips from EACH 

of the three prints for the 

6 1/2" flowers.

You will have leftover fabric

 from the second strips:)

Cut 16 petals from the 

3 prints to make 3 flowers.

Place your ruler like this

 when cutting the petals.

Remember to alternate 

the ruler each time you cut 

just like I showed you 

in the video from week one.

I sewed my circles and leaves...

and starting on the flower petals!

One down...

two more to go:)

I have all of the flowers sewn...

And I glue basted the centers on 

and took a few cute photos!

When pinning your flowers to the

 background and the design board...

keep in mind that you want each flower

 11" tall from top of flower points 

to the bottom of the stems.

You want all three flowers together

 to measure no wider than 17" across.

I placed a ruler across the edges

 of the top and bottom when 

I pinned to make sure that the bottom 

of stems lined up with the tips 

of the flowers straight across.

After pinning everything into place

 I glue basted and took the

 pins out when the glue was dry:)

This sweet Block "P" 

is all ready for applique!!

After you have appliquéd you will

 need to trim the block down to measure 

12 1/2" x 18 1/2" 

It will finish at 

12" x 18" when sewn into the quilt.

Okay...that is the first tutorial

 for this week...

now let's move onto the next one:)

Flea Market Flower

BLOCK "I"

Has one 7 1/2" Flower:)

For Block "I" you will also need:

4 - small leaves

4 - large leaves

1 - 4" circle

1 - 1/4" stem cut 18" long 

with one end pressed under

Background cut - 12" x 26" 

You will need to cut 16 petals from your 

3" strip x WOF 

to make one 7 1/2" flower.

Place the ruler like this 

and alternate each time you cut.

*While we are working with this fabric

 I wanted to let you know....

There is a typo in the sew along guide 

that has been fixed of course 

but I assume that you have already 

copied yours off and so 

I'm showing it to you now.

FYI *The typo has nothing to do with

 this block but it has to do with

 the flower size for block "K" 

that we will be doing next week.

It should say 7 1/2" Flower 

instead of 9 1/2"

The 7 1/2" flower for Block "I" 

which is the one that we are 

doing right now is correct:)

So to recap...

Block "K" is a 7 1/2" flower 

NOT a 9 1/2" flower

Okay...

now let's get back to 

growing this tall flower!!

I've sewn all of the leaves 

and the circle for the center:)

I just need to 

turn...shape and press them!

I'm sewing another flower petal chain:)

And just like that...

a flower seed has been planted!!

Time to get everything 

onto the design board:)

First I pressed my background fabric

in half to mark the center:)

The height of your flower 

should measure 23" tall

 from top to bottom.

My large leaves measure 9" wide.

I pinned and glued and let it dry...

And now it's ready for applique!!

After applique 

BLOCK "I" should be trimmed down to

 10 1/2" x 24 1/2" 

and it will finish at 10" x 24" 

when it's sewn into your quilt.

Thanks so much for joining me

 for week three 

and I'll be right back here

 next week 

to plant two more

 Flea Market Flowers!

xx

Lori