A Quilter's Garden 2021

In April, the Feathered Star sponsored an outdoor quilt show at my home.   
Quilts were hung from fences, benches, chairs, the gazebo, pergolas and anywhere else we could display them!  The majority of the quilts were made by me, but I did borrow several from family and friends.  You can see details on the quilts on the Feathered Star Facebook page.

As before, a video was prepared to take a virtual walk through the Quilter's Garden.  This is the 3rd outdoor quilt show hosted here at my home.  The first was in April 2020 when everything was locked down and the quilt shop was closed.  It was a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to inspire my customers with new ideas, patterns, and colors and hopefully put a smile on faces.  This first show was strictly drive through only.  Then, in May 2020, another show was organized with a patriotic and Texas theme.  

It was so much more interactive in 2021 when quilters could walk around and touch the quilts!       

 

CATS CRADLE

The Cats Cradle ruler by Creative Grids is an amazing tool!  I love that it can be used in so many different settings and numerous sizes and achieve such different looks!  Above is my miniature "Here Kitty Kitty" using the smallest 1 1/2" Cats Cradle blocks in a Shoo Fly setting.

A number of white and metallic gold fabrics are paired with gold Grunge for this setting.  I used a small sashing with cornerstones and set the blocks on point.

The XL Cats Cradle blocks are set in groups of four facing inwards and then added sashing.

30's fabrics are the theme for these 2 1/2" Cats Cradle blocks in the Churn Dash setting. 

BRIGHT HOPES

December 7, 2020 marked the 10th Anniversary of the Feathered Star quilt shop! In honor of this special occasion, I gave the pattern for the Bright Hopes quilt.  This scrappy quilt pattern uses partial seam construction.  I love it so much I've made several different color combinations!

  Purple prints and batiks

 30's fabrics

 Fall colors with black centers

Happy Anniversary to us! Shaula

Strength for today and Bright Hope for tomorrow,

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Great is Thy Faithfulness

 

2020 Challenge

Sharon Boggon of Australia issued her 2020 challenge to create a crazy quilt with 2,020 items and I was hooked!   Items include unique fabrics, buttons, charms, stitches, seam treatments, beads and trims.

I soon began my response to the challenge by listing places I have lived and traveled to, both foreign and domestic which then led to including my personal interests- gardening, music, sewing, technology etc..  My plan was to represent these through flowers and colors.

 Utah

 

Jennifer Clouston’s Foolproof Crazy Quilting was the perfect format for my blocks.  The hexagon shapes let me tell each story separately.  The backing/ binding fabrics are different for each hexagon, so the back of the quilt is colorful hexagons as well. As the owner of a quilt shop, I wanted to use fabrics that I sell, mostly 100% cotton quilting fabrics mixed with batiks and silks.

Hawaii

New Zealand

It was an amazing journey as I learned many new stitches and techniques!

Colorado

Georgia

Canada