There's nothing quite like a challenge to get things done, and the same is true with the UFO 2011 Challenge. This months number corresponded with the flower of the month quilt.
The embroidery blocks, ended up taking a little less than a year to embroidery, but then they sat and waited several months for something to be done with them.
It took quite a while to work out what fabric to use, with a couple of aborted attempts. It's not always easy choosing fabric online. In the end, I decided on something plain and dark, to let the flowers do the talking. Then it was a choice of borders or just the sashing. After having the blocks laid out with variety of fabric around them, sashings only seemed to be the way to go. I've used a dark green, similar to the colour used in some of the embroideries. Maybe someone cleverer at choosing fabric than me, might have found a more interesting combination.
A separate binding was originally chosen, but when it came to sewing it on, I just didn't like it, so went with the same fabric I used for the backing. As I really like this fabric, so it wasn't a painful decision to make. The hanging sleeves are also made from the backing fabric. The binding was hand sewn to the back of the quilt.
Seventeen months after the first stitch went in, the flowers of the month are now completed in their own wall hanging.
