Feeling Felt For February: Flower Collar

This is my project for the week.

I had all these lovely crocheted and felt flowers that I had gathered from swapping, and craft fairs, and experiments. They looked so nice in their little box all together that I wanted to craft them into some kind of wearable bouquet. I decided an removable felt collar would be the best structure to stick them on. Getting the sizes and colors balanced is definitely the hardest part, and the most fun. I must have arranged these a thousand ways. There were blue and yellow flowers that were eventually edited out and new flowers made to accommodate the new limited palette. There will probably be a couple of changes by the time I'm done. I have an antique glass button on it now but I'm not happy with the closure. Over all though I think it looks pretty promising.

I used the collar to practice free hand quilting and I had the tension screwed up. I'm filing it under "Happy Accident " though because I love the ferny texture it left. and I'm glad it happened here because on and actual quilt this setting would have been a real bummer.

Now there needs to be a lovely little dark red boucle wool jacket or capelette under it. I have vintage patterns at hand for either.

Please tell me dear readers... Which do you think it should be? jacket or capelette?