I took a Karen Kay Buckley needle turn applique class at the International Quilt Festival here in Houston in 2011. This is her Garden Melody pattern. We learned how to do smooth curves, wonderful points, and perfect circles. This project ultimately required a bit of everything - circles, reverse applique, and embroidery. What a fun project.
I learned a lot in that class that I've used on other applique projects, so it seemed only right that I get this one ready to hang. I originally had a different border on it. Karen's pattern showed the same fabric as sashing between the panels. I took the panels with me to my LQS to pick just the right fabric. Once I got it home and sewed it together, I absolutely hated it. So, out came the seam ripper. Once I had it in pieces again, I decided I didn't want different sashing between the panels, so carefully pieced together the odds and ends of left over background fabric to make sashing around each panel. I like it much, much better. Finally, it is ready to quilt. I'm thinking echo quilting around each of the flowers.
Before pinning that wall hanging, I started my morning by sewing a baby blanket together. I remember when I was a new mother that one of my favorite blankets was a double layer of flannel sewn into a nice big square. Houston is the world's most air conditioned city and the little one layer flannel blankets you can purchase are just too thin. I know, you can layer two to create the same weight, but this one is a nice 40" square. I hope my niece and her new baby boy like it. It is in the same color way that the quilt I made for her is, so they'll coordinate well.
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