Henry Glass & Co has a new thing they are doing on their blog, called Desire to Inspire. I signed up to see if I could participate and VIOLA! I was thrilled they chose me for this month.
They sent me a lovely stack of Fishy Fishy fabric from Heather Mulder Peterson’s new line, and I got to play. There were no guidelines or restrictions.
When I saw the zig zag fabric I instantly thought it would be fun to try to make a “Faux Pickle Dish” with it. I made some appliqué curves and went to town.
I actually started with a large four patch of the fishy fabric and the orange. I appliquéd the curved shapes and the white ovals on top.
When I design anything I am making, I always at least put pencil to paper to give me a reference as to what I had in mind. Usually though, I use graph paper, PhotoShop or EQ7. I need the lines to keep me honest. But this time I just scribbled on paper to make the design. It looks pretty right on to my drawing if you ask me.
It was a bit of a challenge because I was sent all the same amount of each fabric. So I carefully measured out each piece and made sure they fit into my idea.
This whole quilt making thing I do, makes me so happy! I spied the quilt today, laying on the couch (just as in the picture) and it just made me smile.
Thanks to Henry Glass for letting me play!
Anjeanette, did you just bind this quilt yesterday and TODAY it's on their site???? What a beautiful write up about you and your picture is fabulous too. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteHow cool for you! That's a really original idea for a pickle dish. I do love her fabric and have a bunch of prints from one of her lines I need to make into a quilt.
ReplyDeleteVery cool! What a nice feature - great quilt and a lovely photo of you, too. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought you did some tricky curve piecing! Could've fooled me and either way, the result is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLoving this!!!
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