Prairie Flower Block Swap

[fenrosie]

Hi Ladies,
I've been soooo busy lately that I have forgotten to check in! Delighted to see Kat has extended the deadline or I wouldn't have made it.
I had lots of sewing to do for our David Hockney exhibition and also had to finish my two quilts- which should have been finished months ago.
Here they are

I have just spent a lovely couple of days in London, my husband was booked to be a speaker at a prestigious event and when he got the hotel booking it was for a double room so he asked me if I wanted to go as well! The event was cancelled but the room and train fare were non refundable so we could still use them! He took me to see Les Miserables and out to dinner. Before this I got tickets to the "sky garden" which is a new attraction in London, the tickets are free, you get them on the Internet and you go up to the 35th floor of a building where there are gardens and fantastic views across London, well worth doing especially as it's free! On Tuesday morning my husband came back after breakfast but I stayed until after lunch, according to my phone I walked 10 KM that morning, I saw so much! My main stop was the Wallice collection a small museum two blocks behind Selfridges , wonderful!
This hotel was decorated with flowers as the Chelsea flower show is on in London, they are all real!

 

[katsdar]

I love the quilts and the pic of the flowers, I'd kill to be able to grow some like that, I'm working on my flowers, It sounds like you had a lovely time in London. I can't believe May is over wow where has the time gone?

 

[OHhappychicks]

Hi Ladies,
I've been soooo busy lately that I have forgotten to check in! Delighted to see Kat has extended the deadline or I wouldn't have made it.
I had lots of sewing to do for our David Hockney exhibition and also had to finish my two quilts- which should have been finished months ago.
Here they are




I have just spent a lovely couple of days in London, my husband was booked to be a speaker at a prestigious event and when he got the hotel booking it was for a double room so he asked me if I wanted to go as well! The event was cancelled but the room and train fare were non refundable so we could still use them! He took me to see Les Miserables and out to dinner. Before this I got tickets to the "sky garden" which is a new attraction in London, the tickets are free, you get them on the Internet and you go up to the 35th floor of a building where there are gardens and fantastic views across London, well worth doing especially as it's free! On Tuesday morning my husband came back after breakfast but I stayed until after lunch, according to my phone I walked 10 KM that morning, I saw so much! My main stop was the Wallice collection a small museum two blocks behind Selfridges , wonderful!
This hotel was decorated with flowers as the Chelsea flower show is on in London, they are all real!

fenrosie~Lovely Quilts!!! You do great work. And what a wonderful little get-a-way! Sounds fantastic! I just love the wisteria in the bottom pic.

 

[Anna6]

Here is another quilt block that is easy and nice to make





it looks difficult but it's not, sew 2 10.5 squares together make some cuts, open,press,arrange,sew

I like this one the most. Just see some of these finnished quilts.

https://www.pinterest.com/anna3190/arrowhead-block-quilt/

We could do a scrappy with none brights or a controlled scrappy like red/white/blue, none brights, pink and green or ? I prefer one that is gender neutral or more masculine.

Actually the more I look at it I like the all scrappy one, the first picture, pink and all.

Here is the free download incase you want the pattern for your files.
http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/details.html?idx=12909

http://makeitsimplerworkshops.blogspot.com/search/label/Anita's Arrowhead

 

[katsdar]

in the Arrowhead block's instructions the finished block is 9 x 9 if you look at the last page it tells you how to make a 12 in block, they say 12.5 finished but it doesn't it finishes out at 12".

but do a print for one color and a contrasting solid for the other color, would IMO make a nice scrappy quilt

 

[katsdar]

Check this out

 

[minniechicks]

Kat. I love that

 

[minniechicks]

Really all these patterns are lovely

 

[katsdar]

in the Arrowhead block's instructions the finished block is 9 x 9 if you look at the last page it tells you how to make a 12 in block, they say 12.5 finished but it doesn't it finishes out at 12".

but do a print for one color and a contrasting solid for the other color, would IMO make a nice scrappy quilt

Or make the print have to have circles and then a contrasting solid, that could be interesting.

 

[majack]

I like this. There is no sashing so we could aim for a lap quilt size. Even if we only do 9 each, say, that makes 3 foot by 3 foot more or less. It doesn't matter how many people join in as long as everyone does 9. Hopefully more than 9 will join so every block received will be different.