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.
That is simply beautiful Michelle! This year we are going to hang around the state and do a “staycation”. First up, The Grand Canyon. :D
I love your pastels with the bold darker borders…great combination. We’ll probably be heading to Florida for some R & R.
I love your cornflowers. No vacation plan yet — maybe a few days to see the Vermont quilt show if I can.
I always go to Cape Breton. It’s quiet there and full of natural beauty. There is lots of ocean! Your wallhanging is stunning!
Love your version of Pat’s flowers.
We usually dont go anywhere for the holidays. Lucky if I can get my kids and their families to come out for Xmas with us.
Hope to be able to afford to take a actual vacation this year. We were too busy with our farm to get away.
Love your interpretation of the pattern!!
Don’t have any holiday plans as I am still out of work and my husband is disabled. Family might come visit and have a pot luck! But I always make somehting for my cute little nephew who just lost his first tooth!
Great colors! We’ll be doing the usual trip to see the grandparents!
Love your choice of colors. Great job of your interpetation of Pat’s pattern. We will definitely be going to Myrtle Beach week after labor day again this year. It is a tradition and a lovely time to travel to the beach.
Love the vibrant colors! Hoping to go to Colorado this year for vacation. What quaint quilt shops to visit!
Love your fabric selections!!
We will be going to Albuquerque in July to help celebrate our grandson’s 6th birthday! Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway.
Love it! I am not brave enough to mix batiks with other fabrics.
Love how your colors work so well together.
We’ll be going to Canton, Texas to the huge flea market. Its held the first weekend of each month.
Coneflowers are one of my favorite flowers! I love the colors you have chosen! Reminds me of SUMMER!!
Cone flowers are one of my favorites. We have a lot of them along the roadsides here. Your colors are beautiful.
Our vacation plans involve spending time with family. Having recently lost some very important family members, we want to spend as much time as possible with remaining elders. I like the way you put your own style into the pattern using Pat as inspiration.
I love the pattern in your colors! We don’t usually go anyplace for the holidays. Our house is the meeting area.
Yes, love your color choices. Looks like spring!
I love the patterns and it is a great give away
Love the Patterns …All of Girls in the Garden and Big Fork Patterns!!
I love the Summer Gardens pattern. Of course, any of them would be great.
Since i grew up around flowers I love each of the quilts. The colors are beautiful. Any one of them would look gorgeous on my empty wall.
No holiday plans this year. We are pretty much homebodies! Pat’s patterns are soooo cute & your finished project is wonderful. Love your color choices.
You chose beautiful fabrics! Love your results. We are thinking about visiting the Texas Hill Country. Heading that direction will also give us an opportunity to visit friends and family.
Wonderful fabric choices. Vacation this year…staycation most likely, trips to local lakes, with picnic basket in tow.
Love the fabrics,esp the border of black with the colors.
Hi Michelle i absolutely love your fabric selections particularly on the cone flowers….very pretty…..No I have no holiday plans this year at the current time I am unemployed so quilting will be my get-a-way…..thank you
No holidays for me. Home is where I want to be.
We’re really bad at planning ahead so I have no idea what we’ll be doing for any holidays. Our son is about to graduate college and move far away so I’m sure sometime we will visit him.
Holiday plans are usually pretty quiet — dinner with friends or the like. Having no kids of my own makes a big difference as all sibs have grown kids and we seldom get together now that folks are gone.
We will be going to a wedding in Sonoma and will be vacationing in that area. Love your choice of colors for quilt.
I love the black fabric you used for the background.
We will be having Thanksgiving at our house with our sons and children. That is always such a treat for us.
I love your use of color. Christmas we are always home, the older children come and we all usually have fun.
I already had a wonderful trip in September for our 25th anniversary. We spent 8 days in the canyonlands of the Southwest.
I will be saving vacation time for third grandbaby due in june…already getting the fabrics together for a crib quilt…loving it! Also really love your fabric choices esp the border fab…beautiful!
For Easter Every year my family and I go to the Easter Egg Hunt at Mt.Baker back in my home state – WA… We’ve gone every year for as long as I can remember and to this day the only “big kid” egg hunt I’ve ever heard of!! So much fun watching grown adults on their skis battling it out for Easter Eggs :)
Vacation to VA in May to see our grands. We tried to get there earlier but ….. Our 48th wedding anniversary is then also.
Thanks
I want that Amelia pattern! No, I will not be going anywhere, at least nothing is planned right now. I got a trip to Oregon last year, but this year I guess I’ll be at home with my cross stitch,quilting, crochet, and knitting.
No plans to go anywhere this year. Not in the budget. Love the color combinations! Thanks for the chance to win.
Love Pat’s coneflowers. I made a denim shirt with the same coneflowers :)
Staying home with family this year.
I love Pat’s version, and I also LOVE your version! Very cool pattern, and I’m crazy for purple, and for batiks! We did 2 big vacations last year, so as of now, we have no plans for any holiday vacations this year.
Your version is lovely! We’ve not planned anything yet. The kiddos have spring break in March and we need to go somewhere!
I loved the black and white vase – what fun! Of course with my email address these patterns are perfect for me! I am going to New York City for a Wedding and then I am going to Maui for 2 weeks to celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary! Gotta pack those bags!
Love you choice of colors. Our vacation is to Walt Disney World I
in September. We tighten our belts all year for a Disney vacation.
Love the fabrics! Great combinations! Holidays, as in Christmas? Or Easter? LOL. I am gathering things for the grandkids’ Easter baskets, Christmas is way too far out for plans.
I love the fabrics you used for this design. I enjoy seeing the creative ways Pat’s patterns have been used. We will not be traveling anywhere soon because we are expecting two grandchildren in May and want to stay home to be near them.
Love your fabric choices. We have an annual family get together up north in the Caribou..so that would be my one vaction this year.
Lovely rendition :) I think I’ll make my sister happy and fly to her home on the other side of the country this year. I may be the family matriarch as our parents are gone already but she’s usually the family glue!
I am celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary this year and we are going to Australia this year to celebrate.
Wow. Love your fabric choices. These patterns are beautiful – couldnt pick a favourite.
Super holiday plans this year – we are having our trip of a lifetime traveling from Australia to the UK to visit relatives (and a bloggy friend) we have never met before.