Dilly Flowers from Elise and Emelie
My lovely friend Elise from Elise & Emelie has created a fantastic English Paper Pieced Flower pattern that she calls Dilly Flowers. They’re so sweet!
She kindly sent me some of the pre-cut paper templates to try, in both half inch and one inch sizes. She sells these in her Etsy store. I used some of my favourite Liberty fabric scraps to create two precious flowers!
Being the clever lady that she is, Elise also created a digital file that has Dilly Flower sets with centre hexagons measuring half, three quarter and one inch and also 1.5 and two inches. I printed and cut out the 1.5 inch set and created a lovely large Liberty Dilly Flower too.
I’m not sure what I will use these beauties for yet. I can either adorn some of my pretty projects with individual flowers, or create a whole selection of them and make a gorgeous flower quilt.
Stay tuned to see what happens. Keep up to date over on Instagram. And check the hashtag #dillyflowers.
And for more tips on sewing with hexies, you might like my English Paper Piecing Tutorial.
Happy stitching, Lauren x
This post was written by Lauren Wright and appeared first on Molly and Mama http://www.MollyandMama.com.au
Thank you for sharing and your kind words! Makes me so happy to see these little (and big!) flowers popping up all over the world! Xx, elise
Thanks for your generosity Elise, and for creating such gorgeous patterns!
Can I obtain dilly flower papers in the uk
Hi Kathryn, you would need to check with Elise, the designer of the Dilly Flower templates. Here’s a link to her Etsy store; https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/EliseAndEmelie
Hello from a wet and windy UK!! just joined your website and it is fabulous and so helpful, i love the look of the Dilly flowers too. I have started making hexes using glue …..Sewline but after a few days the edges are coming away! I am bed bound unfortunately for a while after an op and cannot use an iron, darent ask my husband to press hexes, he has so much to do!! do you think I should thread baste them to be sure? Thanks so much….
Take care,
Annie Dunn
Hi Annie, thanks for your comment. I’m so pleased you have found a way to enjoy some sewing whilst you recover from your op. I would encourage you to test using slightly more glue or place the hexagons under a heavy book whilst the glue sets. And if that doesn’t work, thread basting is always a suitable alternative. Best of luck and best wishes, Lauren.
Were can l get your papers
The papers that are designed by Elise are available at the links in the post.