When my quilter Meloney came for an overnight visit and a taste of the country life last week, she brought me a lovely little chicken pincushion:
Isn’t it CUTE?!
I just did a search and you can find a pattern for this little gem here. Enjoy!
When my quilter Meloney came for an overnight visit and a taste of the country life last week, she brought me a lovely little chicken pincushion:
Isn’t it CUTE?!
I just did a search and you can find a pattern for this little gem here. Enjoy!
On Thursday, I will post the first pattern for our month-long “Christmas in July 2010” celebration! ALL of the projects are easy and do-able for first-time quilters as well as experienced quilters. Some of the projects will take an hour or two and some (like my new BOM quilt) will take longer. Every single project can be done before Christmas, so you can have gifts or decor to brighten your home! Here’s a sneak-peak at the first project I’ll be posting on Thursday:
This is a beautiful quilt with a very special sentiment. I believe I mentioned it before. An older couple adopted a little girl, late in their lives. When she was a baby, her grandma made all of her clothes. Earlier in the year, I met with the mother and grandmother – they wanted a quilt designed and made for the adopted daughter. The grandmother had saved a number of scraps of fabric from all of the clothes she made for her granddaughter – and they wanted those put into a special memory quilt. The daughter is in college, and they wanted me to make the quilt to fit her dorm bed. The one thing they asked was that although the fabrics were very juvenile and girlie, the young girl was not – so, they wanted to make sure I was able to make it with a bit more grown-up feel and not quite so feminine. So, we went across the street from the restaurant we met at and picked out a couple of purple batiks that the mother thought would work nicely for her daughter. Tomorrow evening, I’ll find out if they like it because they are coming up to town to pick it up!
I supplied our local quilt group with fabric and the patterns last year, to make the 2009 BOMquilts.com block of the month baby quilt, “Pioneer Sampler.” Below are some photos of those quilts that members of our local quilt group made:
Original “Pioneer Sampler” BOMquilts.com quilt made by TK Harrison
Made by Donna A.
Made by Joyce K.
Made by Gayle P.
What beautiful quilts! I was happy to help bring some baby quilts to our local group, and the ladies did a wonderful job in putting them together!
As you should know, Pat Sloan and I have become virtual best friends forever. When I saw her latest fabric line, “Georgia”, I had to have it. NOW. Also, not only did I use all of Pat’s fabric line, I used the Aurifil thread (that she can’t stop talking about) that she loves to piece the quilt. Not a single thread break during the entire piecing process – now, that’s quilt thread success!
Today, I show you my BOM design from that fabric line, one that I’m calling “Georgia Sunshine”:
The fabric kit for this quilt is available at www.AbbiMays.com. This new FREE six-month original block of the month design has begun at www.BOMquilts.com!