Simplifying

Having selected, sized and placed the various images, I labeled them so I knew where they would each fit.

Then I used a dark colored pencil and drew on top of the prints the outlines of petals and so on. I ignored everything in the background and sometimes I omitted an extra bud or overlapping flower, paring down to the parts I really wanted to show. In another case, I cut out and moved a bud away from a more open flower so they could be seen as distinct elements.

At this point I made the crucial decision to use curved piecing for the flowers and straight edge piecing for the leaves, all of which would be "new" leaves - mostly to keep the greens in one color family. Curved piecing means it is much easier to create the piecing plan, but much, much more time consuming to sew.

Then I put each print on a light box, overlayed it with tracing paper and using the dark lines as a guide, I created a piecing plan for each.