Design Wall Monday

In late Spring, I decided to join in on the Mystery Quilt offered by our quilt guild.  Each month we were sent the next installment of instructions for "Flowers in the Garden of Life".  The title should have been the major clue in determining the fabrics to use but I chose not to purchase any more fabric but use what I had.  Of course, I did not have quite enough of all of the fabrics for what was recommended, so I decided to just make do as I went along.  My outside floral border helped me choose the fabrics for the rest of the quilt.  It was a fabric I had been holding on to for over 15 yrs., waiting for the perfect quilt.  The pattern states the Yo-yo flowers are to be placed around the vine.  Making 40 Yo-yos was not appealing to me and I was not sure that I would ever finish the quilt, so I plan to machine applique several different sizes of circles.  After I get the flowers sewn on, I will complete the borders.  The goal is to show the quilt top at our December Guild meeting. 

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Mystery Quilt - November 2013

Bed Runner Complete

FRIENDSHIP CROSSING

This bed runner was made for my long time friend from 7th grade. As I was trying to decide what pattern to use, I came across the design shown above, called "Friendship Crossing" and I knew this would be the perfect design.
The outside border fabric was designed by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts for Moda Fabrics.  Edyta came to our state-wide Assembly Day of Guilds in July of this year.  She showed us over 100 quilts that she had created and quilted using all of her beautiful fabrics.

Quilt of Valor ready and waiting for final destination

 Quilt of Valor completed in October 2013.
The quilt pattern can be found on Judy Laquidara's Blog, Patchwork Times.com under "Free Patterns".  It is called QOV - Sit & Sew 2013.
Patchwork Times Free Patterns



Lorrie Brown from Monterey, TN did a beautiful job on the long arm quilting with lots of stars.  Lorrie sent an official QOV label, which can be purchased through the Spoonflower.com/shop
You need to search Quilt of Valor labels when you arrive at their site.

The matching pillowcase can be easily made using
Judy Woodmansee instructions as shown in her
YouTube: Making a Sausage Pillowcase with Judy