Thanks Susan, I like this one too. The scrolls were done with a stencil and Stuart Gill Alchemy paint. The paint was hard to see because it was so much the same color as the background, so I used a gold acid-free gel pen with a wide nib to outline the paint. I quilted around it but not through it.

Yes -- the orange fabric of the lily is hard to miss. I used a light box for the drawing of the lily, the same drawing I used to make the fabric lily. The original photo is one I took at Franklin Park Conservatory -- I've always wanted to use it in a quilt. The actual lily is quite red, with a yellow center and a lot of green. The lily on the sheer at the bottom was also from FPC gardens.

The hardest part of this was choosing a background fabric. I had already made the lily and I bet I auditioned 40 fabrics for the background! That is the most difficulty I've ever had choosing background fabric.