Sooooo… This block image is the same one that the paper published a couple of weeks ago, listing it as the primrose. It is definitely is a daffodil. If you are making along with this quilt, this daffodil block will be the same as the last daffodil block. You will not need to remake it.
Block #13 ~ Daffodil
After the members had finished the tiger lily design they had put the white diamonds in place. This gave them three rows of urns and one row of white triangles with two rows of white diamonds.
These white diamonds, cut 12-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches square, were attached in this manner. One of the 12-1/2 inch sides was seamed to lower right of primrose urn block and to another side was seamed to lower left o zinnia. Another diamond block was seamed on two joining sides to lower right and left of zinnia and phlox blocks, respectively.
A third diamond was seamed to lower right and left of phlox and lily respectively. And that left the lower right of lily to which was seamed a 12-1/2 inch side of a triangle of white.
Now comes the fourth row of flowers and urns. The first flower in this row is the daffodil, that spring flower which heartens all of us who are tired of winter.
“My heart with rapture thrills and dances with the daffodils,” thus quoted Nancy and thus echoed the club members.
The flower is made from palest yellow with a centre of rich orange. The French knots in the centre are done in green or in orange. The leaves are long and slim as daffodil leaves should be. They, like all the leaves and flowers, are made from color fast material such as gingham or print. This flower calls for plain colored material. The stem may be made from bias tape, already turned and ready to be appliqued or it may be made from same green material as used for leaves. The lower part of diamond block is the pieced urn. On the upper triangle are appliqued the birds and the flower. After the members had cut the pattern with its accompanying directions from the paper they traced the flower and leaves lightly on the upper triangle. Then they traced the pattern onto the lightweight cardboard. Next they put the original design away for safekeeping in the Nancy Page quilt scrap book. The cardboard pattern was now cut into its pieces and these were laid on the material of which the design would be made. The cutting allowance is always one-quarter inch on all sides unless the flower and leaves are being appliqued by using buttonhole stitch. In that case, no seam allowance is necessary, since the buttonhole stitch covers the raw edge.
After the pieces are cut out they are prepared for applique by turning under raw edges, basting and pressing in place. Then the pieces are pinned onto the white triangle and appliqued with fine, slanting, invisible hemming stitch. Just so soon as the birds are appliqued the block is ready for placement in the quilt. It is coming on nicely and is it popular – oh my!
“garden bouquet quilt, block 13, daffodil” Newspapers.com, Edmonton Journal, February 20, 1932, https://www.newspapers.com/article/edmonton-journal-garden-bouquet-quilt-b/162369941/
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