Summer Breeze

 Dear Readers,

Back in 2022, I did a sew a-long with Pat Sloan called Sweet Dreams.  I decided to do it entirely from my stash.  Of course that did not make a dent, but I also wanted to use an piece of fabric I had bought in Okinawa in the nineties to be the inspiration for the colors that were to go into the quilt.  Pat Sloan was releasing a block a week over the spring of the year and amazingly I kept up!  

I used a swirly pattern that went edge to edge for the quilting.

I used the same backgrought in all the blocks and used up all the green and pink fabric in this quilt.  It was fun.  The back also came from my stash.  

The back

Have fun.

Sew on,

Terry

Tip Toe Quilt

Dear Readers,

The next quilt I completed came about because a friend told me they were having a granddaughter and I decided to use a pink jelly roll I won at the Spring gathering of the Mississippi Quilt Association.  Thanks hosting guilds!!   I had seen a photo of a quilt square designed by Pat Sloan that I thought would be really cool.  I went to her site and it was only sold in a book, and I didn't know if the book's pattern would be using 2.5 in strips or some other size.  So I got my graph paper out and designed my own version.  If you are interested tho I encourage you to go to her web site and buy her book.  Click here to go to her web site.

"Tip Toe Quilt"
Made for Ellie Marie Harmon
About 34 x 45
2019

I quilted this on my sit down quilting machine.   I tried to make the pink part have the feel of petals and did leaves in the grey part.  I put a row of asterisk styled stars in the outer border.  I quilted veins in the leaves.

So this quilt went to Ellie Marie Harmon...enjoy.

Update:  Look how cute Ellie and Vance look!

Sew long,

Terry