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It’s my special day for Pat Sloan’sGirls in the Garden Blog Hop. Pat asked five designers to share their fabric choices for making one of her Girls in the Garden patterns. I chose to make Pat’s Chelsea’s Summer Garden Pattern. Here’s Pat’s version:
The pattern includes a detailed list of all fabric required to complete the project. Just a note, the lighting in my apartment leaves a lot to be desired. Some photos were taken at different times of the day with natural and artificial lighting.
Here are the fabrics I’ll be using.
I knew I wanted to use the black with wild colours for my first inner border and my large outer border. This is my focus piece. From this one, I chose the background fabric, a warm sunshine yellow, and a multi-toned pink/orange for the inner border and binding.
For the vase, I chose two black and white fabrics. The black with white as the main vase and the white with black as the vase’s base.
For the stems and leaves, I wanted a green that had enough hue to stand out nicely on the yellow background but that didn’t clash with the background. Here’s what I picked:
For the coneflower petals I wanted to pick out pinks and purples from the focus fabric. Also shown is the flower center/top which was also used for the butterfly body.
Fabrics for the butterfly wings and hearts:
I chose a multi-colour batik for the other flowers scattered throughout the quilt:
So, how did it turn out? Let’s see. Background and borders pieced:
Let’s add some of the appliqué pieces:
We need the flowers! To make them easier to handle, I pre-assembled the flower pieces on a Teflon sheet so that I could fuse them to the quilt top as one unit.
And the finish:
What do you think? Like my fabric choices? What fabrics would you choose?
Give-Away
I’ll be giving away a copy of one of Pat’s patterns to a lucky blog reader. The winner gets to choose which pattern she/he wants. Here are the four patterns in the collection.
To enter: Leave a comment below answering the following: “Do you have any holiday plans this year? Where are you going and why?” One winner will be randomly chosen Sunday night (February 26th).
But that’s not all, there are MORE chances for you to win these lovely patterns. Visit each of the bloggers in the blog hop on their special day. See the fabrics they’ve chosen to use. They’ll each be giving away a pattern too.
You’ve seen and heard of a few ways to store fabric in our earlier studio organization posts this month. Today’s post is about Fabric Storage and we have an awesome give-away for you too. Join our link party for your chance to win.
This is one of my piles of stored Freespirit fabric in yummy pastels… I am NOT as neat as Anne Sutton… what can I say! I also store by color like so many do. I interviewed Lynda Hall of “Primitive Pieces by Lynda” on January 23, 2012 and we talked color and sorting of it (listen here).
I generally sort like Lynda does big groups of color together. Red is palest of pinks shaded up to deep red. Those go in bins I can pull off the shelf to easily work with.
Here is my Basic sort categories
Primary colors of Red (pink to deep red), Yellow (pale yellow to orange to brown), Blue, Green, Purple, Neutrals, Black. For the most part shaded in the area they are stored.
1930s fabrics .. as I just can’t seem to put those in with the others.
Novelty prints that are heavily themed, such as Christmas as it just does not go well in a spring quilt.. wink!
And yes.. a few coveted lines, like above, are kept together.
Another HUGE question everyone asks is how to sort scraps. For this I turned to Bonnie Hunter the “Scrap Queen” extraordinaire and a good friend of mine.
Bonnie told me in this past December she re-organized her strip bins. She also made adjustments to how she works with things. She wrote about it all at this post … love the post name “Fabric Herding!”.
And this is her organization when she lived in her prior home. She has some info here on folding yardage in here: Paralyzed By The Stash? (Note… MORE fabric folded all tidy.. I am such a slacker in that area!)
How do you store your fabric? Does it work for you? If not, what will you change first? – Share your comments below or enter our link party.
Winners “Before” Photos
Thanks to everyone who dared to share their studio “Before” photos in our earlier post this month. It was so much fun to see all of your studios. Thanks also for the tips and advice shared in the comments too.
Well you can, thanks to the fine folks at Polar Notions who have created the perfect solution to organize your fabric stash. Create your own “Mini Bolts” with these solid, acid-free, reusable plastic Storage Sheets.
Watch this video to see how EASY it is:
The “Mini Bolts” come in two sizes: 11 3/4″ x 7 1/2″ and for fat quarters 6 3/8″ x 4″. We have two sets of 10 of each size to give away to two readers that share their stash photos in the link party below.
How to Enter: Create a NEW blog post on your own blog, take a photo or several photos of your stash for your blog post. Link back to this post, or to the Learning Center main page – there are graphics you can use, telling your readers that you’re sharing your stash for a chance to Win!. Come back to this page and add your post to our Link Party below.
The two winners will be randomly selected Thursday, March 1st. If you have questions or need help joining the link party, contact Michele.
Please note: Links not following the rules indicated above will be removed.
Pat Sloan is owner and founder of the quilting design and publishing company Pat Sloan & Co. She has published over 25 books, more than 100 patterns, nearly 10 fabric lines, and has had her work featured in all the major Quilt magazines. In January 2010, Pat started hosting her weekly Internet Radio show called Creative Talk Radio.
