capitol city quilt guild
multi color stripe

Tiny Treats

Brought to you by Ellen Mills and Wilma Rhodes.

Tiny Treats is a quilt block raffle held each month for members only. Patterns and instructions are included in the newsletter and linked off the home page. Make as many three blocks and enter your name once for each one.

multi color stripe

Fall Blooms

October, 2012


9" finished / 9 1/2" unfinished


This is a fun and easy block!! Use fall colors, light for back- ground, an accent color for corner triangles; light, medium and dark for Yo Yo flowers, green 1/4" rick rack for stems and green embroidery floss for leaves and one button.

Background: 1 - 9 1/2" square
Accent color: 4 - 2 1/2" squares--- on wrong side of fabric draw a diagonal line on each one
Yo Yo flowers: 1 - 5"circle (medium)
1 - 4" circle (dark)
1 - 3 1/2"circle (light)

On 9 1/2" square, place a 2 1/2" square on each corner (right sides together) and sew on diagonal line. Trim 1/4" away from seam and press corners to show triangles.  Cut rick rack for stems and arrange on top of 9 1/2” square (as shown in picture). Stitch through center of rick rack. Using green embroidery floss, embroider leaves using stem stitch (or use your sewing machine to make leaves). See placement on picture.

On yo yo circles fold down and sew a running stitch around edge and pull tight to form gathers. All yo yo`s will be used with gathered sides up. Place the light 3 1/2" yo yo on top of medium 5" yo yo and attach on stem (as shown in pic- ture) Place the medium 4" yo yo on other stem and attach with button in middle.

You are done! Of course you can change the combination of light, medium and dark for your flower yo yo`s. Can`t wait to see your blocks.