Another beautiful, and not pink flower.... although it can be. The daphne is a small, exquisite flower that bursts out when winter starts to fade. Its clusters of tiny, star-shaped blooms often appear in soft pinks or lavenders, or creamy whites - colors that seem to glow against their deep green, glossy leaves. Each bloom is made up of star-shaped blooms clustered together, which makes it easy to construct.
Because I don't have any daphne flowers around, I used a flower from Wikipedia to get an idea for my block drawing. This photo was taken by Miya in Japan. You can read the license agreement for sharing this photo here: License agreement (part of the agreement to use this photo on my blog)
I didn't use the flower's pink shading in this photo for my block, but instead decided to use a creamy white fabric for the flower as I knew that would stand out well on the dark leaves.
As I constructed my block, I noticed one thing. Can you see what that is in this close-up of the flowers?
The dark leaves are showing through the white fabric. I could easily fix this by:
- adding an extra white fabric or interfacing under the whole flower. I wouldn't want to do it under each section as the applique would become very thick and difficult to stitch through.
- trim back the leaves so only a very small underlap is covered by the white.
However, because I had not noticed this until after I'd pressed all the pieces together on the background, neither of those two options worked for me without starting over. Instead, I decided to add a little extra stitching to camouflage the leaves underneath.
Here's how my block finished up...
If you'd like to make this daphne flower block too, you can find the pattern here: Daphne Flower
This daphne is my 74th BOW flower block. You can find the whole collection here: BOW flower collection
