I designed and made this trio of “Lovely” spring table toppers, with free patterns at BOMquilts.com, for a friend who wanted to use them to display her products at local craft shows. I think they are sew very simple to make and if you made them with four different fabric sets, you could have one each for every season!
Category Archives: Fabric Therapy
“Lovely” Table Topper #1
“Lovely” Table Topper #2
“Lovely” Table Topper #3Quilting with Nature
The prickly pear cactus flowers are blooming and they have such amazing colors!
I took these photos to one of my image programs and wanted to see the quilt-worthy colors in the flowers. Here is what I came up with:
Not only is there natural beauty in nature, but it can clearly become hand-made beauty in quilting! So, the next time you are out and about and see colors in nature, take a snapshot of them and then see if you can create a quilt that truly exemplifies all of natures colors – surrounding yourself with quilted color love from outside and inside!
btw – Speaking from experience, I do not recommend photographing a prickly pear cactus unless you are very sure-footed.
Flashback Tuesday: TT Pinkie Promise
My mother-in-law just completed her Relay for Life booth this past weekend. She is a breast cancer survivor, I believe this is her eighth year of being cancer free. This quilt below was not made for her but was definitely made for all breast cancer survivors.
The pattern is timeless and it can be created as a baby quilt…or the pattern can be repeated for any larger size quilt. It was a very simple quilt to make, even for beginners. Let’s work to hold up all cancer patients (current or deceased) and their caregivers in prayer and praise, through our quilting! You can find the free pattern here.
A Favorite Photo to Remember
Fabric Stash Building!
I am working very hard at building up a great fabric stash for when my quilt studio is finished. I bartered for these fabrics – and what a great barter for me! I did have to give a little fabric lesson to DD #2, explaining that only two of these fabrics were actually focus fabrics…the rest will either be used as complimentary or companion fabrics to a focus fabric…when I find the right focus fabrics for a quilt or quilt project.
LOVE these fabric choices and the colors of the fabrics, too!
What about YOU? Do you prefer to use complimentary fabrics from the same fabric line as your focus fabric…or do you find a focus fabric and then use companion fabrics to complete a quilt or quilted project?