Giant flowers quilt

 This quilt started with a trip to Kentucky.  Two of my girlfriend's and I went to go to the quilt museum and to visit one of the girl's friends who happens to own a quilt shop.  I bought a ton of fabric from her!  

I loved one of the fabrics for a backing but nothing ever went with it.  So, I had to do a reverse (for me) quilt idea.

First, I took pictures of a few of the flowers.

Second, I had a friend blow it up on her computer and print it for me.

I used a whole bunch of scraps for the background blocks and added a skinny strip of color for a pop.  The colors I chose to match with the backing fabric.

Third, I made the flower applique.

Then, the backing fabric wasn't quite big enough.  So I added the solid fabrics to match the front pops to make it big enough.

My girlfriend did the custom quilting for me.  She did the center of the flowers just the way I wanted so they went with the print on the backing. 

I sooo love this quilt.  And, it made me feel a little artistic when I have been doing a lot of production type of blocks lately. 

The binding was the perfect fabric!  The colors were just right and the stripe was adorable!  I couldn't have asked for anything better!

Bonus***I used most of the ugly neutral strips and I love how they worked!