When the fabulous Carla @Creatin in the Sticks announced the Orange You Glad Blog Hop, I was excited to participate. The color orange reminds me of the fruit, but more than that, it reminds me of the fall, and pumpkins and falling leaves. I had a number of ideas floating through my mind with pumpkins and leaves. I looked on Pinterest a bit. I ended up purchasing a table runner pattern from The Dutch Quilter on Etsy called Falling Leaves. I decided instead of making a table runner, I was going to use her beautiful leaf templates to make a fall pillow cover.
One day I decided to go check out a quilt shop I had heard about, that was down the street from my son-in-law's used car lot in Lincoln, CA called Sew Katie Jean to look for some oranges. I found some beauties, and the lady checking me out pointed out that there was a quilt panel with sunflowers and pumpkins in it. I love sunflowers and pumpkins, and it didn't take much for a squirrel to convince me to purchase the panel too.
I designed a pillow cover with a pumpkin in it, and I cut out a sunflower from another fabric and did a sort of broderie perse. I used some of the leaf templates from the falling leaves pattern.
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I was going to do a simple cross-hatch for the front of the pillow, but got carried away practicing my free motion quilting.
After this, that squirrel convinced me I need to work on the beautiful sunflower panel. I just put a couple of simple borders on, because I wanted to use those leaf templates along the borders. I didn't have time to quilt it yet. I will put in the details of the leaves when I quilt it. I am going to use this piece to practice my free motion skills again.
On my design floor.
Thanks for stopping by, and thanks so much to Carla @Creatin in the Sticks for another great hop. The full schedule is below. Be sure and check out the other bloggers below.
Tuesday, August 17th
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