Diane Kirwan sent this photo of her quilt, saying: “I so enjoyed make it Aunt Millie. I felt it deserved custom quilting.”
I love the cool, calm, collected colors that Diane put together. I do not usually have this much self-restraint which makes me appreciate it even more 🤣.
This is Cathy Lucas’s Aunt Millie’s Garden quilt.
Cathy’s color palette includes all the colors in a thoughtful and balanced layout. Purple sashing adds visual unity to the quilt as a whole. Cathy writes:
Here is my version of Aunt Millie’s Garden. I loved making this quilt and seeing other people’s interpretations. My quilt won a blue ribbon earlier this year at our Pride of the Prairie Quilt Guild show. Your appliqué patterns are among my favorite and I’ve made several over the years. Thanks for being here and being you.
It’s fun to see these quilts together. Each is wonderful in its own way. Thank you, Diane and Cathy, for sharing your quilts with us!
Aunt MIllie’s Garden is available as an ebook. Click here to find it.
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It has always amazed me that changing fabric choices can make such a huge change in the finished appearance of a quilt… overall colors, color placement, large, medium or small prints, solids, color values, controlled or wildly scrappy… so many possible variations! And every variation results in a completely different and unique quilt. Just one reason I fell in love with quilt making!
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Both quilts are gorgeous in their own way! Thanks for sharing.
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Both quilts are amazing, but so fun to see the different colors.
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Beautiful Beautiful quilts!
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Hi Becky: All the Aunt Millie’s Garden photos you’ve been posting lately are so much fun to see. Mine is not yet bound but I thought I’d send a couple photos now while everyone is interested. I did the prepared edge, invisible machine applique during the first few months of Covid. I set the blocks together and put the quilt top away…waiting for a border. Then I got very ill and didn’t sew at all for two years. That quilt really needed a border so I started up again about 4 months ago. I made & attached the Dresden Plate border. My vision has been compromised & I couldn’t quilt this myself so it was quilted by Jan Hutchison. It still needs trimming, blocking and a binding with a row or two of piping but, since there is no telling how long that will take, I’m sending the photos now. If anyone wants to comment on how THEY would handle the binding, I’d be interested in hearing opinions. Love all your designs, Nancy Arseneault Santa Fe NM
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Hi Nancy: I don’t see your photos here, they may not have posted. YOu can email them to at becky.pieceocake@gmail.com :-).
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It is so great to see the many different ways that Becky’s pattern was interpreted by other quilters. Each quilt is very different and I have so enjoyed seeing all that have been finished. More inspiration for the future of quilting.
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