Wild!flowers Too

I remember when I first saw this quilt in a Phoenix area quilt shop.  It was love at first sight.  This was the first embroidery quilt pattern that I used.  These blocks have been in a box for a while, so it was time they were set together and quilted.

The pattern is Wild!flowers from Smith Street Designs. I have also stitched More Wild!flowers and several of her other designs.  They are all beautiful. Overbrook Quilt Connection has her designs at the shop.

Working on a quilt!

I have a class at Overbrook Quilt Connection that is working on Wild!flowers or More Wild!flowers by Smith Street Designs. The quilt blocks are flowers made with machine embroidery. So I have been working on getting the blocks put together into a quilt top. Then I want to layer the top so I can demonstrate how to quilt with the embroidery module. That is what I have been working to complete. So no new pictures or new ideas this week.

It's Wild!flowers Again

These are the six embroidered blocks that are in Wild!flowers by Smith Street Designs. I first saw this quilt in an Arizona quiltshop. It is the first embroidery quilt that I truly fell in love with on sight. You can see my quilt here. Tomorrow at the local quilt shop I will be teaching the techniques needed to make this quilt to a class of seven. I know they will really like making this quilt and lead them on a non-stop journey into embroidery.

More Wild!flowers

I will try to get a picture of the entire quilt when it comes back home from Houston. Right now it is in the pack of quilts that are headed to the Quilt Festival for the booth of the Overbrook Quilt Connection from Kansas. My job this year is to mind the store while others are enjoying the festival!!

Last Sunday the quilt was on display at The Charles Curtis House in Topeka. Charles Curtis was the vice president for Herbert Hoover. He is the only vp who had a native American mother. The display was a quilt show and tour of the house to benefit two local charities.

I did show the quilt to my local quilt guild and to my Bernina sewing group earlier this week. It really is a beautiful quilt and much more colorful than in this picture.

Sneak Peak of More Wild!flowers

This beautiful machine embroidery applique is a pincushion cactus from More Wild!flowers from Smith Street Designs. This photo is of my stitchout and is not copied from the website. The other really beautiful flower in this quilt is the California poppy. Really, all of the flowers are beautiful, but the cactus and poppy are just outstanding.

I have the body of the quilt finished. Now to get 292 half square triangles completed for a border.

My first embroidery quilt was the first Wildflowers quilt by Smith Street. I saw a finished sample at a quilt shop in Arizona and fell in love with it. Now I have enough embroidery quilts completed to develop a program about them. There are many stitchers who have embroidery modules who have never used them. Get those modules hooked up to your machine and have great fun!