Very Special Quilt

Last year I joined seven other quilter in the Instagram Traveling Quilt Bee #igtqb and it was the greatest experience. Each of us created our inspiration mosaic and also started a journal telling our likes and dislikes for our quilt.

Next we created our starting section for our very own quilt and at the end of the month sent it to the next person on our list. Each one of us secretly added to the quilt that month and again sent it on it's way. At the end we each got our own finished quilt top!

Here is mine after quilting by Amy's Creative Side and binding:

It is one of my very favorite quilts.

P.S. I started my quilt with the five feathers.

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Cultivate Blog Tour

It is finally my day on the Cultivate Blog Tour.

What is Cultivate? Well, it is a new line of fabric by Bonnie Christine of Going Home to Roost for Art Gallery Fabric.

In Bonnie's own words:

"cultivate was inspired by my love for gardening. it’s as pure and simple as digging in the dirt! growing vegetables and cutting fresh flowers from the garden is one of my most favorite pleasures in life. there’s something so special about preparing a meal with food you’ve grown yourself, and arranging a bouquet of flowers fresh from the yard. don’t you think? it’s about the romance of reaping the harvest through and through. it’s filled with floral motifs, garden patches, roots and seeds."

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I was lucky enough to sew with a lovely piece of knit in the Row by Row print in Deep from the Cultivate line. Since it is nearly 60" wide, I had lots of ideas going through my head.

I decided on a tank top and skirt for my granddaughter.

 

After looking through my patterns and online tutorials I went with the tank top pattern from Sweet Polly's Playclothes by Izzy & Ivy designs:

..and this Circle Skirt is from the tutorial on the Made blog:

I love how the horizontal stripes in the fabric look on the skirt cut with a complete circle. My only tips on sewing with this or any other knit is a new ballpoint needle.

There are lots more great items to check out on the Cultivate Blog Tour! Yesterday Theresa showed us the cutest gym shorts. If you haven't checked them out yet, her blog can be found HERE. And on Monday see what Amanda makes; her blog can be found HERE.

And the whole list of links for the blog tour can be found HERE.

Cultivate is available in stores now or you can certainly find it online HERE.

Thanks you for stopping by and thank you to Bonnie for having me on the tour!

 

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I love summer!

Summer is crazy busy & my favorite season of the year. We have the whole family over all at once every summer and it is so much fun. Just picture seven children between 18 months old and five years old, add a lake, sun & sand, mix thoroughly & that is what we had!

I made another block for our Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild charity quilt.

I decided on a sixteen patch king size quilt for my precious Katie Jump Rop stash and have a small start - 52 blocks to go!

I made my daughter pillows to go with the Terrain quilt I made for her:

I gave Brandon a little boy haircut after swimming one day.

Have you heard that Amanda (Crazy Mom Quilts) has a new fabrics line with Connecting Threads coming out next month called Good Neighbors? I started a little project using it.

I covered a few hexagon cork bulletin boards for Audrey using Briar Rose to match her quilt and curtains. I also made a few matching push pins.

Brandon needs a tote bag for "school" so I used some vintage fabric to make it unique!

Here are the blocks for Rene' Creates for August Sew Sister's bee.

and here is the block for Mary for August Mid-Century Modern Bee.

Have you been following the Cultivate blog tour?

It is a beautiful line of fabric! I am part of the tour and have already sewn something. I'll be posting next Friday!

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