Color Palette for Springtime Garden Runner

 


I loved this palette when I discovered it on Pantone's website.  I could hardly wait to make something with this as my inspiration..

 

Somewhere I had seen this block and had made a sketch in my Ideas Journal thinking I would use it at some later date.  In order to not lose the flavor of the block, I made this mock-up block from some scraps of fabric I had in a drawer.  I had saved it for a future project.  Many times I will make up a block or a couple of blocks so I don't lose my idea and then set them aside to come back to when I am ready to make a quilted item.

 

Later I was contacted to do a Workshop for a group of ladies.  The Workshop was scheduled for this spring and I decided to use this block as the focus of the workshop.

 

This Workshop is a techniques workshop designed to teach two ways to do Flying Geese; using Prairie Points in the body of the quilt; and finishing off the quilt with straight-line quilting on the home sewing machine.

 

There are options in this workshop.  One could make four blocks for a wall hanging; make one block for a small table topper; or make a runner.

 

My version is an oversized runner that I have turned into a valance for the double window in my breakfast room.  Perhaps I will make a couple more blocks and finish them off as matching place mats.

 

 

This is not a very good picture.  The black/white background fabric gives it a little modern twist.


                                                  -sandi

 

SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER

Aren't these just the sweetest little fabrics?  I found them in a little bundle in my fabric closet.

They make me think of spring.

I decided to make a small wall hanging with them to hang for the month of April since they remind me a little of Easter colors.

So I made a few Flying Geese using Eleanor Burns' method

I added some 4-Patches,  a few rectangles and some squares.

This is what I have so far

I think four of these with some other features and borders and I may have a wall hanging.     Will keep you posted.

-sandi