Shades of Gray Block Tour Week 21 – Stitch & Bloom

Welcome to week 21 in the Shades of Gray Quilt Block Tour.

The Shades of Gray Quilt Block Tour is a year long sew along of sorts. Every week for 50 weeks 30 different designers will release a free 6″ finished quilt block. Some of the blocks are applique, some are patchwork, all are fun. You can collect the blocks you like or collect all of them and share your progress in the Facebook Group. For a full list of designers, the blocks to date, and sponsors visit the official Shades of Gray Tour page.

What do the blocks have in common? The blocks should be mostly shades of gray and can include a pop of color. This sounds really interesting to me because you could make the entire quilt shades of gray and choose a limited number of blocks to group for the pop of color, the possibilities are endless.

Stitch & Bloom

Stitch & Bloom is a series of floral quilt blocks that I’ve created, one block at a time. The blocks are free and are released as time allows with no specific number of blocks promised. If like floral applique sign up for my newsletter so you wont miss any of the blocks. The Poppy is Block 2 in the series. Combine the flowers with a larger patchwork block for its background, fuse them to a solid background or use them on a pillow. Information for Block 1 can be found here.

Shades of Gray block

The Poppy is popular in many countries, however if you live in the USA it symbolizes remembrance for fallen soldiers. The download includes 2 sizes for your 6″ finished block. Perhaps you’d like to add the poppy on a HST-use the small templates (image below). To fill your block-use the large applique templates (image above). Either would also be fun to add to one of the patchwork blocks from the Block Tour.

Use your preferred fusible such as Wonder Under or Heat n Bond, and finish the edges with a decorative stitch. A straight stitch is also nice.

Download the Poppy block