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.
Our family is planning to visit a city where my son might choose to attend that University!
I love the fabric combination that you chose, the batiks work great on this pattern!
Our only, tenative, plans are to fly some family in for Christmas this year! Also expecting a new grandchild!
The design elements and colour choices are very effective . It is interesting when part of the “picture ” spills out onto the border.
After the whiteness of winter we are looking forward to our trip to the greens of Ireland.
Your version of the cone flower is gorgeous!! I would love to see this one made up out of soft vibrant wools…would love to try THAT!! Thanks for the chance!
Holidays?…we are Snowbirds and have been in the Palm Springs area from Nov. -April…can’t wait to get home!haha
Thanks for sharing!
Paulette
I love the borders – having a dark for the focus and light to frame it out! Holiday plans… not yet! :)
Like your color choices. Heard somewhere else that yellow backgrouds tend to make other colors pop.
No plans for any holidays this year. Hubbie has been out of work since beginning of last September so until he is back to work can’t even think about holidays.
We will be celebrating a family wedding this spring and I am looking forward to getting to go home and visit with all of my family in North Carolina!!! While that may not technically be a holiday, it is better than most holidays to me!!!
I really like your interpretation with all those luscious batiks. No holiday plans here. Still too early in the year.
Hi Michele, I love the wild and bright inner and outter border with the batiks you used. Not sure I would have use the outter border print myself but it works and I absolutely love it! Shows me to step out of my comfort box and try other fabrics. The whole pattern is beautiful!
I love both versions. The beauty of Pat’s designs is that they look good done in so many different fabrics. No holiday travel plans for us this year but we will spend a week at the beach in the Fall with the extended family.
I won Pat’s “Girls in the Garden” a few weeks ago so don’t enter me in the drawing. I just had to stop by and see your version and it looks gorgeous! I love that border fabric and the colors you chose for the vase are perfect. Also, had to let you know that one of my favorite movies is Bridget Jones’ Diary. Give me Mark Darcy anyday. LOL!
I’m not sure what “Holiday” your asking about. Spring Break??? I will be attending a Sewing and Quilt EXPO next week, does that count! I’m excited to meet some more quilters and see their new Books! I would love to win one of Pat’s Garden Girls Patterns.
Love your version! Answer to question: Sadly I have no holiday plans this year. I must try and do that soon. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
My holiday plans usually involve trying to spend time at home sewing! All the patterns are pretty, would love to win one.
I love the coneflowers. That pattern is my favorite. I am on holiday right now. All my brothers and sisters are meeting up at our parents for a week. Then in April I get to come back for my youngest son’s wedding.
Already cut mine out. I have huge golden poppies for the border and an ultra-modern print for the vase. Still, another pattern would make a great gift.
Your version is Mardi Gras for Coneflowers! What fun! Thank you for the giveaway. I have no holiday plans except to be with my sons when I can.
Have a super great day.
I love your border fabric! Very nice finish, Michele. Holidays always include family time–usually at home.
My husband and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last November. We didn’t travel anywhere but we would like to get back to Disney World this year – we were married there. Love your color choices.
oh I love how you mixed the petals! I think the coneflowers it my favorite of the group. Hopeing to go to Cal. for spring break in April! see some family & friends.
Love your fabrics for this quilt, really eye popping! For Labor Day I will be watching my husband run in the Disneyland Half Marathon and it is also his 65th birthday so what a celebration.
Wow…love the fabric choice you made…so pretty..love it…My holidays will be going to Manitoulin Island to camp..most all summer lolol…love it..might have to bring some hand sewing humm…sounds like a plan…happy stitching..
I’ retired and living in Victoria, BC and feel that I am on holidays all the time.
This is really pretty! Love your focal fabric a lot. for the holidays, I hope to find down-time with my kids & maybe even my sewing machine!
Very colorful. Not planning any trips this year.
Holiday plans this year include a family reunion over Memorial Day weekend in the beautiful mountains near Provo, Utah.
Gorgeous, Big Sis! Love the pinks :)
For now, we have no holiday plans this year. We wait and see if the Lord provides and if there is extra money, then we’ll take a holiday!! I continue to dream, though!! :-)
Love the colors! I am really into orange & pink right now. Is is considered a “holiday” when I visit my grandsons for a refill on my Nana cup? That’s happening next week for me!
Spring Break is coming up, I will be at a 4-day quilt retreat with some of my best quilting girlfriends. :)
No plans yet! I’m waiting to see if I can have lasik or not – if I can I think we’ll just be laying low this year…
Amei seu gosto de distribuição de cores,amo amarelo de fundo.Férias…só no meio do ano,talvez praia ou roça,nada decidido…
Most of our plans revolve around visiting our grandkids-(9hrs. away by car). We will be spending Easter with them this year, and of course my daughter and son-in-law. I hope my single daughter will come down too. The day before easter is our grandson’s 2nd birthday.
The only plans I have this year so far is Thanksgiving will be at my Mom’s this year and I will be doing most of the cooking. Her home is a lot larger to accommodate our family. I am hoping the entire family will show up this year. I am also planning on a summer vacation with the kids camping but have not really thought of where we are going yet.
Hi Michele, what beautiful blocks. I am saving up for my next years holiday to the Mesa Quilt Show in Arizona. with 2 BFF’s. Other than little jonts around to beautiful province of British Columbia, such as Kelowna, and Victoria.
We don’t have any plans at this time. We just bought a new house last May, and I moved in September. My husband has been at our old house since then, and he actually gets to move in March. So no set plans, but we’re definitely gonna need a vacation soon!
We actually have just returned from our first holiday plan. For Presidents Day, my college age son was off on Friday and Monday. So we took our family to the slopes and they snowboarded. Now you have to understand that we live in sunny Florida, so snow is not an option here :-) But we enjoyed our time together as a family. Thanks for the adorable block. The butterfly really sets it off. I really love Pat’s fun designs.
We have no holiday plans this year other than staying home.
This is my favorite girl in the garden and would have purple purple coneflowers. Yours is very pretty with the two fabrics in the vase – kool idea.
Love those colors. Beautiful
I just loved the way you did this post. Showing the fabrics and me agreeing with your choices – isn’t your border (black with wild colors) the best? And then that green – to dye for!! I wanted so much to jump ahead and see how it turned out but I kept my cool and enjoyed the process. And then that yellow background..so calm and looks very nice. Note to self: try yellow when you make these patterns. The final project is beautiful!!! And I bet it was so fun to do also!
We staying home because we plan to have a family (extended family included) camp out in April.
Holiday…? I’m assuming that means the same as “vacation” here in the USA. I had to laugh at comment #5 from Barb who wonders if taking down Christmas decorations before Easter counts!! Ha, Ha. It hasn’t been long since I did that, too! My husband and I and 2 other couples go south in a few weeks. We take our bikes (bicycles) and ride the trails. Ohhhh, it’s wonderful to enjoy warmer weather and the springtime smells in the air.
I am hoping to get to New Hampshire to visit my aunt and cousins. My one cousin has a quilt shop there and I would love to go and see it and take a class. I love the cone flower pattern that you are making. Love the colors you chose.
I plan on being at a family reunion on the 4th of July. I really like the outcome of your coneflowers. Beautiful
I love your version! My plans for summer is spending as much time in our garden as possible.
My holiday plans for the year will be several trips from my home to my son’s home in Bowling Green, Ky and my daughter’s home in Birmingahan, Al. Going to see them is MY IDEAL of a holiday!
Love your fabric choices. My holiday plans are in July. Relatives from Finland are coming to attend a family reunion in Upper Michigan. I am so exited about it. We visited 2 years ago and now it is their turn. Thanks, Elizabeth
Love the coneflowers! We are driving to Skyline Drive in Virginia, Dollywood and Nashville in Tennessee and Louisville in Kentucky. Should be fun!
I love your version so bright and bubbly are those colours. Mmmm holidays what are they…I will still be cooking, cleaning, washing and running around after everybody. But to be honest I wouldn’t have it any other way. ;)
No holiday plans, I love your wall hanging!
If you count Summer as a holiday, then we plan to go for a month(!) to a beautiful yet not crowded beach and stay in a 3 bedroom condo that sits right on the beach. And why? The beach is the best place for us to really unwind. We sleep w/ the window cracked so we can hear the ocean which lulls us to sleep. Can’t wait!