It’s my special day for Pat Sloan’s Girls 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.
- Wednesday, Feb. 22: Heather of Olive and Ollie
- Thursday, Feb. 23: Dawn of Spring Water Designs
- Friday, Feb. 24: Amy of Amy’s Creative Side
- Saturday, Feb. 25: Heather of {House}of A La Mode Fabric
Still more: Our friends at the Fat Quarter Shop are giving away FIVE full sets of Pat’s patterns. Visit their Jolly Jabber blog to enter.
Finally, visit Pat Sloan each day too as she shares HOW she designed “Girls in the Garden” and she’s giving away another full set of the patterns too.
Wow! Lots of chances for you to win.
Be sure to also check out Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. for all the cool designs they publish!
Updated:
The winner is #134 – Victoria Miner. Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments.
Love your version of the coneflowers. They are so my favorite! My holiday plans this year will be the same as all others,,,,family and friends will be in and out for about a 2 week period and I will be cooking and feeding as many as possible. It is my favorite thing to do, have lots of food and goodies for lots of friends and family!
Your quilt really pops with the yellow! Love it! As for holiday plans…we are hoping to go to Tennessee for a week!
This year not a real holidays for us,just some trips to the beach, we just had a new baby and traveling with him just seems to much hassle. Beter luck next year
Your color choices are bright and cheery! Holiday plans? Does taking down the Christmas decorations before Easter count? lol
Pretty colours you used. I am going this year to Hungary and Roumenia. But of course I live in the Netherlands and can drive to this countries.
My holidays plans for any holiday is to be with family and close friends. I live by most of my family so we don’t have to travel far. Our oldest son and family are in the military and will be coming home for good this summer, so they will be getting my summer holidays. :)
Love the wall hanging and colors. It is excited to see what others views are.
Beautiful! Love your fabric choices. Going to Walt Disney World a few weeks before Christmas with son, his fiance, & her 6 year old son! Can’t wait!
What a fantastic use of fabrics! Love the patterns and can’t wait to see the others take on the patterns. Don’t have any vacation plans but do have family coming to visit for Easter.
Are you talking about Christmas so soon? If so, I have no plans. The next holiday coming up, Easter, I have no plans yet either. Guess I’m just flying by the seat of my pants here!
LOve your version of Chelsea’s Summer Garden. it is super fun to see it in different fabrics! My holiday plans just might include a trip to the Sundiance Resort in Utah! I have my fingers crossed. P.S. Michelle, I work for the Bigfork Bay Cotton Company, so please exclude me from the drawing. I just wanted to join in on the fun!
I love your choices of batiks – I don’t work well with them – and they with me :-/ It’s always nice to see how they turn out. Cone flowers seem to be popular here in FL!
I like your focus fabric! Holiday vacation plans for us this year, spring break to spend some long over due time with the in laws (its been 3years). Summer vacation to travel and see more family, with fun stops in between!
Great use of the colors — Love the pretty border print and the purply/blue coneflowers!
Vacation will probably be a quilting retreat at the local retreat and conference center.
WOW I LOVE yours!!! Great use of that beautiful black in the border the final quilt is just STUNNING! Thank you so much for being on my blog hop!!!
Your quilt is very striking, love your fabric colors! No plans for holiday, we have a small hobby farm and hard to get away, but I am happy at home with my animals. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway, love Pat Sloan and her patterns!
Pat’s coneflower is my favorite. My vacation is in BC, Canada, love the mountains. Thanks for sharing.
I love that you gave the border equal weight in the overall design – lovely in Batiks. It is happy – think I will try the Spring one in Batiks. Thanks for this opportunity. Vacation plans sort of happen as they show up … six children surprise us with visits. Judy C
Love the colors you used, your version turned out great! We will be spending the holiday’s with family and friends, I”m planning on that :)
I simply love what you put together..it is adorable. Not going away this year; neither of us can decide where we want to go; so staying home…I guess we don’t really need to go away or we would be ready..lol
This is my favorite of the 5 patterns and I love your focus fabric!! Great interpretation of the design. This is going to be a fun blog hop to watch this week. No vacations planned this year- we have 2 weddings to plan!!
I’ll spend the holidays with family, however it reminds me of the last few days of spending time with my dad and his twin brother. They claimed every day was a holiday – just celebrate. I hope a little rubbed off on me!
I love all your choices for “Chelsea”. That yellow just makes the whole thing pop and love the border – great choices!!
Love your fabric choices Michelle. I would probably use more pastel colors. It was very interesting reading your questions on Pat’s blog. Don’t know why it never clicked with me before, that you are in Canada too.
Love your color choices, great job. Hubby and I going on a cruise in April.
Your colors for the pattern are perfect. Love the yellow background. I have 2 of the batiks you used – they are lovely. My grandson joined the Air Force first of Sept. last year so we had Thanksgiving in Aug. This year he will be coming home for 3 weeks in March before he goes to where he will be stationed so we will celebrate Easter early this year. Everything is around him. I love the Autumn Pumpkin Patch. Blessings, Janet
We live on Vancouver Island every day is like a vacation living here! We will be heading home to Alberta to visit friends and family this year, first time since we moved over 2 years ago. I loved the fabrics you chose and the pattern.
I love your flowers! My holiday plans are what ever everyone else tells me to do! lol
Your choice of fabrics is lovely! No plans so far for the holidays! too far ahead to plan for me! thanks!
Sensacional o uso dos batiks,gostei muito e as barras ficaram lindas com os tons que você usou.
I really like the energy from the many prints! We will spend 2 weeks camping this summer at the lake with our entire multi-generational family.
My favorite of all the patterns. I love your fabric choices (batiks are also my favorite), and it looks great.
Sorry, I can’t report on any holiday plans right now. With air travel, and gas prices both going up, I think a lot of people will be having holidays at home this year.
Most of our holiday are spent with my children and grandchildren. Other than that, we don’t make many plans for holidays.
Don’t do long holidays but have a couple of long weekends away, with two of my other passions, line dancing and gardening
Love your fabric choices. Usually my vacation is a cruise with my sisters but this year we have an added blessing. So will be traveling in August to be there for the birth of my seventh grandbaby. Am overjoyed.
I love your fabric choices. They go so well with your b order print. we hope to go to michigan for a visit with family this year.
I love your coneflowers. Never would have thought of using multi colored petals on them. That is the pattern I would like to win “Coneflowers”.
Holiday plans? Three out of five of our children live out of town, so it’s pretty up in the air until it happens. If no one appears, we will make the best of it. Thank you.
Like the choice of yellow as the background – it really makes the colours pop!
I love how bright and sunny this looks. We are leaving for holiday this friday to visit our son in Ontario, Canada.
Well, which Holiday? Easter my children come home for the “bunny”. Christmas, my daughter already has made a plan for me. Love your color combinations – you rock!
We are supposed to take a trip to Branson this summer. Unfortunately, now hubby has to work during the days we have scheduled. Paid for the rooms and everything. Oh well. The only other plan is to get my niece for 2 weeks. We have “Quilt Camp” every year.
and those patterns are adorable!
Love your fabric choices. We’ll be going to the gulf coast for two weeks for fun in the sun and fishing!
As my DH says, we are on holiday every day being retired. This year we plan on going to Universal Studios to celebrate DGD#2’s graduation. Easter will be a week camping with as many grandchildren as possible.
Beautiful batiks! We do not have any traveling plans. A little time for quilting would be a holiday for me!
I love these little quilts, and your fabric choices are fabulous. Holiday plans include a week in the northwoods in a cabin by a lake…. peaceful.
So fun seeing how someone else makes up a pattern… and I love your multi-colored coneflowers—one of my favorite flowers! I would love to try this pattern too if I won; I have a spot right inside our front door to hang it!
Re: holidays—my husband & I are going on vacation as soon as our daughter gets married in May–the house is empty & we’re celebrating! Woot-woot!
Cute, Michele! Love the dark border! We’re going to Africa for Christmas… I’m so looking forward to not doing ANY Christmas shopping this year!! Our gift will be looking at the wild animals on the Serengeti!
I love your fabric selections. The yellow gives it a Spring look and your focus fabric is great.
I just loved the border, reminded me of a summer garden party. I could see making this to use by hanging them as background on post in a garden!
OH, it was fun to watch your progress! What a fun quilt. Love your version.
We just plan to go to the beach for our anniversary this year.
I like your color selection and the way the boder works with the whole hanging. Nicely done. We plan on going to Florida shortly and then camping this summer. Ahhhh, life is good.
Your quilt is very striking. I love it.
No plans for the holidays yet. But hopefully it will include time with family.
Hugs