I received the best package in the mail late last week. It was from Mary of Quilt Hollow. It contained this wonderful miniature quilt! My kind of colors and style. And beautifully machine quilted. You may be familiar with Mary's machine quilting that she does for customers on a Statler (I think I remember that correctly). The quilting on this tiny quilt was done on her sewing machine and so well done. I feel so special that she made this for me.
And if that was not enough, the package also contained a prim style stripe towel, three fat quarters of Civil War reproduction fabrics, and a prim style note pad. All very "me" kind of stuff!
And to make it even more special, she sent me "Folk Art Favorites" by Joined at the Hip. The book contains several quilt patterns and almost all have a house in them. One pattern has houses & pineapples. I think that is my favorite. Pineapples are a symbol of hospitality. I do love house quilts!
Thank you so much, Mary! We have been chatting a good bit by e-mail for a while and I certainly enjoy her company. We have very similar opinions on many things. Most of you probably already visit Mary's blog but, if not, be sure to do that soon.
And if that was not enough, the package also contained a prim style stripe towel, three fat quarters of Civil War reproduction fabrics, and a prim style note pad. All very "me" kind of stuff!
And to make it even more special, she sent me "Folk Art Favorites" by Joined at the Hip. The book contains several quilt patterns and almost all have a house in them. One pattern has houses & pineapples. I think that is my favorite. Pineapples are a symbol of hospitality. I do love house quilts!
Thank you so much, Mary! We have been chatting a good bit by e-mail for a while and I certainly enjoy her company. We have very similar opinions on many things. Most of you probably already visit Mary's blog but, if not, be sure to do that soon.I wanted to start the quilt with the houses & pineapples the same day I received the pattern book. Had to restrain myself because of so many unfinished projects. I did some hand applique on my basket blocks. I did not photograph those this morning but will do that very soon. I decided it was time to get busy and sew the Prairie Sweets blocks together. The individual blocks have been ready for a good while. And I had them stacked in order of the way I had decided they needed to be layed out. It was just a matter of sewing them together. The quilt pattern does not include a border but I decided to add a pieced border of squares. I am not totally happy with this quilt top. It is pale compared to most of my quilts. It has a good variety of Fig Tree fabrics and most are what was used in the original quilt. A friend had expressed some interest in this quilt. I think I will e-mail and ask if she wants it. I didn't get much of the final border in the photo but you get the idea.
I mentioned in the previous paragraph that the fabrics are almost all Fig Tree fabrics. The backgrounds are not. The pattern design is by Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree Quilts. The blocks are easy to make. It consists of a pinwheel block sashed by more background fabric. The circle is hand appliqued and covers part of the pinwheel edges giving the pinwheels the appearance of having been set intothe circle. I think you could just as easily use fusing for the circle and do raw edge machine applique. Mary of "My Needle & Thread by Mary" blog has her blocks from this pattern as her header picture. And Darlene of "Quilting Daze" shows hers on the January 10th, 2008 post.
I mentioned in the previous paragraph that the fabrics are almost all Fig Tree fabrics. The backgrounds are not. The pattern design is by Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree Quilts. The blocks are easy to make. It consists of a pinwheel block sashed by more background fabric. The circle is hand appliqued and covers part of the pinwheel edges giving the pinwheels the appearance of having been set intothe circle. I think you could just as easily use fusing for the circle and do raw edge machine applique. Mary of "My Needle & Thread by Mary" blog has her blocks from this pattern as her header picture. And Darlene of "Quilting Daze" shows hers on the January 10th, 2008 post.Enjoy your day and come back soon for another visit.
Karen





























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