The Valley Heritage Quilt Guild in King City, California is selling donation tickets for this “Stars in the Garden” quilt to raise money for programs, workshops and comfort quilts.
The quilt measures 86″ x 86″. Holly Casey, who made this lovely quilt, used a different, and unique, border than the one I used in the pattern. I like this a lot!
For more information, contact Holly Casey 45335 Vista Place, King City, CA 93930.
Susan S. sent me this photo of her first Vintage Gone Modern block, from Wool Applique the Piece O’ Cake Way. I really like her fabric selections and I’m surprised at how much I like the black stems. I don’t usually like stems this dark but they are very well-balanced by the other fabrics.
She wrote:
Thought I would send you a photo of the first completed block of Vintage Gone Modern. I love the combination of cotton with felted wool. The colors are rich; the texture added by the wool is luscious. It has added a tactile facet to applique. This is my third Piece ‘O Cake project; each is more enjoyable than the last!
I love getting this kind of email :-).
Christy Hoffmann is sharing her finished Stars in the Garden that she entitled “Alaska Bugs in My Garden”. She writes:
This quilt was finished and entered into the Clark County Quilters Show in 2011 in Vancouver WA. I did hand appliqué and hand seed beading around all of the flying bugs that I designed to replace the pieced stars. Val Pellens, the free motion quilter, quilted a poem I wrote around the border in large lettering: “Oh Alaska summer bugs, please come fly, flutter & buzz, in my midnight garden so bright, ablaze in rays of sunlight”. It won Second Place Judged and Third Place Viewers Choice for Large Applique. It also won First Place for Large Applique in the 2011 Sandy Historical Society Quilt Show. I was sad to see it finished, it was so much fun to work on!
I love it! The bugs in the center are a good touch. Well done!
Look what came in my email, from Sylvia Phillips:
She wrote:
I am 80 yrs old and I have been appliqueing for 60 yrs..It is my first love…my daughter and I took your class when you came to Hershey, PA several yrs ago..I am working on some of the blocks from your book “Aunt Millie’s Garden”..I am enclosing photos …thanks again….
Sylvia, you do lovely work and I’m happy that you are enjoying sewing Aunt Millie’s Garden. Happy stitching!
Linda Moser sent me this photo of her finished Whimsical Quilt Garden quilt. Look—She put a fence around her garden! It looks so nice on her bed. Well done, Linda!
Marcia Skaarup sent me this photo of the wallhanging she made for her daughter using our pattern, My Whimsical Quilt Garden. Isn’t it cute!
Marcia says:
A wonderful feeling of Spring in this (yucky) time of ‘not winter and not yet spring’ in Kamloops, BC. A fun, quick project using fusible appliqué. Now to make one for our home…..someday….
Thanks for your wonderful pattern!
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