Summer of 2021 a friend of mine posted a beautiful photo of a sunflower on Facebook. With her permission I used her photo to make a sunflower collage pattern. It wasn’t until November that I got a chance to make it. Actually it’s still waiting to be quilted.

Fast forward to March 2022 and Emily Taylor of Collage Quilter posted her sunflower pattern as a fundraiser for humanitarian efforts for the people of Ukraine. Well I loved that pattern and even better it was available to buy as a downloadable pattern.

I already had lots of yellow fabrics with Steam a Seam II on it, so I was ready to collage.

The background fabric I found was actually leftover backing and it was a pretty good size. I’d say 30×36. Well if I had that big of a background, I should make more than one sunflower.

A few years ago my son planted sunflowers in his food plot for white tail deer. That hill of sunflowers was what I had it mind when I kept making the collage sunflowers.

I had my sunflower pattern on my computer, so I reduced it, and reduced it again. Three different sizes of my original pattern; Emily’s pattern and then I made a few tiny Accuquilt sunflowers to fill in.

My sister Jenean suggested that I make one flower from a side view.

Needless to say, this project just keeps changing. Now I decided that I wanted to piece the background to give it more depth.

This is the finished quilt top. Not sure how I want to quilt it yet. But I’m sure I will figure it out. Will post an update when completed.