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.
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