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.
I think your version is lovely. I like your fabric choices as I like purples. If asked to make my version I might choose red/orange, tangerine, and yellow/orange for my flower petals on a purple background using black accents also. Our holiday plans this year are a trip to Italy as we lived there for a year and that’s what my husband wants for his birthday. Yeah, I get to go with him :-)
Love it!
Don’t have any specific plans for any holidays this year but we are going on a big vacation in June. Going to Vancouver, then a cruise to Alaska and then a few nights in the interior. It’s to celebrate our fifth year anniversary and (hopefully) my graduation from grad school after 4.5 years of part-time school.
Our plans will be in our backyard, between the pool, the trampoline, the basketball court and the bouncy castle, the kids don’t want to go anywhere else. But we do have alot of everyone else’s kids over; which is great!
I was pleasantly surprised on how everything came together in the end.I have a hard time picking out colours you did a great job. No plans for a holiday as we farm. My cone flowers would for sure be all purlple.
Love your colours – blue and purple are my two favourite colours.
Love your version, as for holiday plans….none a this time.
Really fun to see different versions of the same pattern! No plans for holidays, but can’t wait for spring. It’s always a holiday at our cottage!
LOVE the colors and patterns of your choices. My trip plans is to go on the Tomorrow’s Quilts 2nd annual Quilters Quest shop hop in July and attend several semi-pro baseball games in Frisco and Round Rock. (Just can’t hardly beat that!) My parents are coming from North Carolina in May so that will be great also. Planning a spring break trip to La Grange to see the Texas Quilter’s Museum. Just a few short trips this year. Trying to save to pay for those big electric bills!
Love your “wild” fabric choices! Our “holiday” plans include a trip out to Colorado Springs for a niece’s wedding in May. My husband is one of 7 siblings and everyone is scattered across the US. Family weddings and even funerals sometimes result in long awaited reunions. Thank goodness this time it’s a wedding!
Thanks for chance to win, Beth in AL
I love the coneflowers and fabric colors use used. All the holidays will be special for me since my first grandchild arrived on my birthday in November.
The fabrics you had used were yummy! :)
My vacation is usually a ‘stay-cation’ as I attend an area retreat!
I love these patterns! I don’t think I would be able to decide on just one! :) As far as travel plans this year, we’re hoping to go to California and go north up to Oregon to see the redwood forest.
I’d like to win the Autumn Pumpkin Patch, just in case… Holiday plans — wow! So far in advance. I’m going to visit each of my two sons and their families for Christmas. Thanksgiving will be here. Labor Day we’ll spend here at the lake. Independence Day also here at the lake. Memorial Day as well. Spring and summer at the lake are the favorites, as you can see.
Cone flowers and colors are beautiful. Travel plans to Menasha for quilting. Holiday plans to see family in VA
I love the colors you chose. My favorite pattern is the bird house. the only special plans we have are to go to Disney World the end of June with our daughters family.
Your colors make me smile. They are beautiful! All of the patterns are beautiful. My daughter and I will be travelling to Russia in May! A trip of a lifetime for us!
My holiday plans this year don’t involve an “established” holiday. It’s my city/area’s Relay for Life (June 1-2) to raise money in the fight against cancer. The big difference this year is that I will be participating as a SURVIVOR!!
My favorite pattern is the summer coneflowers, and I think you did a fantastic job with your interpretation!
I love coneflowers and I especially love the colors that you chose. My holiday plans are to visit relatives in McKinney, TX. All of these quilts look like a lot of fun to make!!
Love the fabrics you chose. I like your choice of more than one color for the flowers. My favorite pattern is the one with the cardinals. Love cardinals.
We live in Ontario, Canada and are hoping to drive to the lovely east coast of Canada this summer!
I love the fabrics that you chose. So cool looking. We are planning on a cruise this fall. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love the cone flower the yellow is a real zinger, but then again I like the Cardinal one too.
I don’t think we will be taking a vacation this summer.
I love your choice of colors the border really sets the cornflowers off the fabrics are great I haven’t any of these in NZ
Loved your fabrics for me picking the fabric for a quilt is the hardest part. Purple conefowers are my favorite. I just got all 4 patterns in mail yesterday. Unsure about vacation prob take in a few quilt shows and retreats. then maybe trip to beach with daughter and grandchildren
Holiday plans….hmmm…whatever the holiday, my plan is to have fun wherever we may be, (For President’s Day I spent the long weekend quilting–always fun) Loved your color choices.
I love the coneflower pattern the best.
We’ve just returned from a lovely holiday in Kauai! Only other plans for the year are to spend time in our new fifth wheel trailer camping on Vancouver Island and maybe the Oregon Coast.
Would love to win a pattern.
I love your borders and the colors you used for your cone flower petals. Coneflowers are my all time favorites. I can never grow enough. Love, Love, Love them. Can’t wait to make this wallhanging. So pretty!
The question about special holiday plans? I am taking my daughter to London for the Jane Austen Tour in June. I introduced her to Jane Austen and all her writings when she was about 8 and we are both big, big Jane fans. I promised her this trip when she graduated from college. She graduated from American University in Washington DC in December and we are sooooo excited to be going!
I love the black/white fabric you chose for the vase, in amongst the beautiful batiks and brights.
My holiday this year will include 1 week hidden in my quilt room, hoping to produce one or two of the Girls in the Garden quilts.
I love the colors you picked! I’m hoping to spend some of the holidays with my grandkids this year. Making special memories.
SO darn cute! I love your fabrics! Holiday plans, none here, stay home and sew!
I love the fabrics you used, so beautiful and perfect for flowers and spring. We will stay home and our children will come here.
Debbie
I love the way you explained your color choices and they look very summery and whimsical. My holiday plan is to go back home in June for my oldest son’s wedding. It’s June 10 and can’t wait. Grace
Ohhhh, your colors are pretty too! I loooove purples, teals & pinks, and I love the butterflies that coneflowers bring!
We’re retired, so every day is a holiday! We’re planning to work at the zoo (the petting pen sheep are ready to shear!)
and I have a set of curtains to finish up and then the beach is calling!!
We may try to get to Yellowstone this year for a summer holiday.
Love your interpretation of the quilt, beautiful colours. My idea of a holiday is to just enjoy where I live now that I am retired, however I will travel for a learning experience. This year I am attending a workshop with my favourite sewing instructor to learn to make a pair of leather gloves by hand. My idea of fun :)
No specific plans for the holidays yet.We love having all the family over and enjoy good food and associating together.
I think both interpretations are beautiful. I like to see the different effects of style and color choice affect the pattern.
What glorious colors in both your version and Pat’s. Fabrics are just too delicious!!
We’re retired, too, so I get to play in my sewing room nearly every day – and my sweet MIL who is 81 is making her 2nd large quilt with a bit of help and encouragement from me! It’s too much fun!
Thanks!
Cheers!
I love cone flowers and the colors are just what I would pick! The only holiday plans I have so far this year is a Cakefest on my birthday and my friend’s birthday the day after, in June. We have a lot of bunnymom’s over and lots of cakes made into all sorts of bunnies.
No plans for holidays, but my daughter and grandson are coming down from Denver to visit with me in March. That’s all I need.
My summer plans are to take part, on a quilt camp.
And hopefully get the hang of quilting.
Love your colors.
Hi!
I’d pick Amelia’s Spring Delight if I could!
We will probably drive to Alberta at the end of August if we can get away!
Thanks for the giveaway and the view of your great little quilt!
Take care, Leslie
I will head to Florida to see my grandchildren a couple of times this year, maybe more. All the patterns are wonderful. You did a great job.
Well I would love to go to quilting retreat one day. It is so hard to organize with three kids. Maybe ,this is my plan so we will see. If I don’t go I will have lovely holiday with my kids and my hubby.
I love that colors what you have chosen , great job!
Just got back from a fun trip to Death Valley NP…and being retired, everyday is like being on a holiday!
I love these patterns, your fabric choices are beautiful. Hopefully,my family and I will spend a relaxing week this summer visiting friends in Norway, Maine who own an amazing house on an island in the middle of a lake.
Your version turned out great. Love your border fabric. We really don’t have any vacation plans this year. My son who is in the Marine Corp will be deploying to Afghanistan in April. I will be going down for a few weeks to help pack etc. My DIL and one year old grandson will be moving closer to us while my son is deployed. We have had a seven hour drive between us and I’m looking forward to having them 15 minutes away.
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choice of the colors are harmonious inspite of the variety of it.
just gorgeous!!!
No special plans this year. Just going to enjoy a slow easy weekend. Those are my plans anyway. I hoping those end up being special. Thanks for your giveaway.
LOVE the coneflowers– SO pretty! I’m sure that we’ll be heading back to the mountains this year.. we usually make a trip a couple times a year..once in Spring and once in Autumn. We love it there– love the waterfalls and mountain views… :-)