Roses beginning to bloom

Meet Rose.

A rose by any other name is still a rose...My eldest grand daughters' middle name is Rose. My grandmother's sister was Rose.

This is the or could be the first row of five more rows of roses in the French Rose quilt. The designer is Heather Rose. I have just begun cutting out and sewing these five squares.
Each layer is cut away in the back, which gave me more extra fabric. Five smaller roses.
I wonder what I shall make from them?

There will be 25 Roses in all. Five by Five.Five across and five down.

The blog will not allow me to move the two photos closer together to show how this will look. But you get the idea.

There will also be an inner border and an outer border, but

I won't show that fabric yet. Give you something to look forward to in the process of things.

Tomorrow is the class. I have already done way more than was assigned pre-homework.

It's fun, it will take time and patience.

Once washed "several times in hot water" the edges will fray giving the quilt an old, worn look.

Like something your grandmother made years ago and you just dug out of an old trunk in the attic. I wonder if any of my grandchildren will discover this in an old trunk someday

after I am long gone? Nice to imagine making family treasures for them now.

(You can double click on the photos to see them close up.)

(This is not necessarily the order the final roses will be.)

(Any one recognize some of the leaves? Know where you've seen them before?)