Flower Block Exchange

You may remember this flower from THIS POST last week.

We exchanged our flower and nine patch blocks yesterday at our quilt guild meeting.  The flower I made is my signature flower.  It is really easy, and I have several versions of it in patterns of mine including:

The cover quilt "Charming Flowers" in Simply charming Collection,

a version with sashing and pieced borders called "May Flowers" in Simply Charming Seasons,

and a version with leaves and applique in a single pattern called Sweet Baby Kate.

This was my nine patch block.  I did end up making two versions of this block.  The other version had the dark red in the center.

I ended up making a few extra flowers and nine patch blocks because I just made up all that the strips I cut would make.  I laid out the blocks today.  What do you think?

I am so impressed with all of the blocks!  I love it!  I have 6 extra nine patch blocks, so I am going to add two more rows.  Instead of making extra flowers, I am going to use 6 plain blocks that have a busy floral print.  I think it will work.  It won't happen until a couple other things get done first.