tulips

AHIQ:Sun Quilt Top and Autumnal Tulips #2 from Quilty Folk

I seem to have fell down a rabbit hole this past little while. So shocking. This quilt top was a result of an AHIQ prompt from July 2022. I was really late getting going with my response and then even later getting it to finished quilt top stage. I was dragging my feet initially because it's just so different for me! Most of the applique pieces have been cut out and ready to go since sometime last fall though, and I've been positively antsy to see the end result.

Is it a sunflower or a daisy?

So yeah ...

added by audrey 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under #ahiqsun , ahiq , autumnal tulips , commission quilt , finished quilt tops are the bomb , freehand applique , improv. hourglass abstract , sun of my life , tulips

A Couple Good Finishes To Start the Year Out Right from Quilty Folk

So I actually finished two quilts in past couple weeks. Crazy days. The first one 'Positive Thinking', just needed the binding sewn on. It's been in that state for a couple months now and finally all the planets lined up or something.

Bright flowers for the win!

This was an AHIQ challenge from 2020. I took the prompt and ran with it, using part of a biblical verse as inspiration. It had been pinned to my inspiration board forever, just waiting for the right moment to be included in a quilt.

Positive Thinking is a true blue finish!

With ...

added by audrey 2 months ago. under #ahiqpositivethinking , clamshell border , improv. , improv. hst medallion , tulips , words on quilts

A Late Summer Quilt Finish from Quilty Folk

It feels so very, very good to finish up with this particular quilt: 'The Mountains Are calling'. Not only because there's been so few finishes for the year, but because it's really ran me through the whole gamut of emotions from feeling rather blasé about the idea until now, when I'm actually rather proud of the cozy, warm vibe to it. Who would have ever expected it to end up this way?

The Mt's Are Calling is a true blue finish!

This was started in March of 2022, always intended to be a quilt for our ...

added by audrey 7 months, 1 week ago. under improv. , orphan annie , tag's quilt , the mountains are calling , tulips

My Corona Tulips from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

At last, I was able to venture outside to take photos of this quilt on our hill. Our spring has been wet and cold and miserable, but finally we are in the heat and I could safely drape the quilt on the stones without fear of getting it wet and muddy.

This is the backing that was used. Whatever was left on the bolt was purchased but there wasn't enough. After some careful cutting and piecing, viola! The fabric is a rendition of Susan McCord's Vine Quilt and once I saw the fabric, I just had to have ...

added by Rose Marie 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under tulips

Cool spring from Art In Search

It has been a rainy, cold spring here. Lots of dark clouds. One thing that has resulted is that the tulips and spring flowers last a lot longer. There are still good looking daffodils among the tulips. In December, we had to take down an oversized oak tree and we were able to plant two columnar trees- a sweetgum and a Pacific Fire maple (great looking color branches). Still, the garden is behind in cleanup and planting due to the weather. Today, the sun came out and it is actually getting close to 60 degrees!

Yellow hellebore

Bleeding Hearts

Dirt ...

added by Linda Swanekamp 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under spring flowers , tulips

Sunday Chat from From My Carolina Home

It was overcast several days this past week, but those days were the only ones I had to try to get some wildlife photos. I sat on the veranda for a while, quiet and still until the birds felt safe and came back to the feeder. I watched the bluebirds go in and out of the house building a nest. This was so fun to see.

The male sat in the oak tree for a photo, then few off to help gather nesting materials.

The house is in the redbud tree, hanging from a lower limb, but high enough off ...

added by Carole @ From My Carolina Home 1 year ago. under birds , bluebirds , cooking , garden , gardening , mountain living , photography , tulips (Comments)

A 2023 Finish! from Quilty Folk

It's the first finish of the year! Yoohoo! All washed up and nicely crinkled, just like I prefer them.

#AHIQStringTulipQAL

This was an Adhoc Improv. challenge involving string piecing and tulips. I didn't actually do much string piecing {only in the tulips}, but challenged myself to use a difficult stack of fabric instead. There's something about these particular tones of blue that I've always balked at using and they were starting to pile up!

First completed quilt for 2023!

That's the problem with me and challenges. Sometimes the challenge itself doesn't end up being ...

added by audrey 1 year ago. under #ahiqstringtulipqal , 2023 finish , 25-patch , finished quilt tops are the bomb , tulips

Very Belated Look at Finished Quilts From 2022 from Quilty Folk

It's way late to do a end of the year wrap up post so if this isn't your thing, please feel free to move along. It's mostly for my own records anyway, since quilts tend to get lost in the shuffle if I don't keep track. Last year ended with a respectable 15 quilts totally finished up. Not my best number, but definitely nothing to sneeze at. If I wouldn't have gotten so sick, there would possibly have been another to add to the list. Apparently it wasn't meant to be!

2022 Finishes (1 ...

added by audrey 1 year, 2 months ago. under 2022 finish , 9-patch , big kiss , christmas , coins , geesetracks , haha , improv. , love apples , seedpod , spring flowers , tulips

Working It Out from Quilty Folk

I can almost feel myself start settling in to the regular routine of normal quilting habits. Almost. Why does it take me so long these days to adjust back to the usual ebb and flow of things? Probably has to do with the state of the world around us. All the uncertainty wears on us in so many different ways. So nice to burrow down into our cozy little world at home and soak up the good things.

Orphan Annie working itself into a quilt top

It took me several tries to finally settle on the sashing details for 'Orphan ...

added by audrey 1 year, 10 months ago. under a tisket-a tasket , finished quilt tops are the bomb , orphan annie , tulips

Tulip Festival and News in the Garden from From My Carolina Home

This past week the Tulip Festival in downtown Hendersonville began. Every one of the many brick planters are filled with early blooming tulips in all sorts of colors. The tulips last quite a while, and are inter-planted with smaller flowers to fill in the beds.

Small violets and little marigold-like flowers bloom between velvet red tulips.

From one end of Main street to the other, luscious color! Sorry about the garden hose in this shot, I was distracted by the lovely yellow tulips with deep pink violas and didn’t notice it.

Of course, a few of these got hidden ...

added by Carole @ From My Carolina Home 2 years ago. under gardening , orchid , tulips (Comments)

Maybe The Solution Will Come To Me If I Take a Nap from Quilty Folk

I've been working on the border for the A-Tisket-A-Tasket quilt. Lots of hst's which are not difficult, just annoying.

Trimming the hst's

Before sewing them into rows and getting locked into something I don't want, I went ahead and auditioned some ideas for the next border after.

Auditioning some possibilities

Definitely loving the red and blue hst's, but the rest is slow going. I had this idea to use up a lot of that really light yellow oddball fabric. Maybe in random 9-patches etc., but noooo it's not working. So I switched to applique ...

added by audrey 2 years ago. under a tisket-a tasket , border work , country stars , fabric stacks , inspiration binders , orphan annie , soaking fabrics , tulips

Toppy Tulips from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

This project is now a top! Yippee!

I'm on a roll. Backing is up next and I think I will be making a scrappy backing. Got a lot of fabric that needs to be moved out of my stash.

Let's see what else needs borders and get them done.

Cherish your day, cherish your life!

added by Rose Marie 2 years, 7 months ago. under tulips

FLOURISH QAL: Fabrics from Nestlings By Robin

The first exciting step in starting a new

project....FABRICS!!

YAY! YIPPEE! YAHOO!

I had a lovely floral print,

"First Impressions" designed by

Mary Anne Henderson

from Red Hen Fabrics

for Northcott

that started it for me.

The color is true in the pic above.

I used the colors in the print

to pull my applique' and other

piecing fabrics.

I placed a ruler over the

fabric so you can get

an idea of the print scale.

This print worked perfectly

with the size of the templates.

You want a small to medium

print so that the fun details show ...

added by Robin 2 years, 9 months ago. under applique' , fabrics , floral , flourish , flourish qal , northcott , piecing , red hen fabrics , reproductions , templates , tulips

Visions and Dreams from From the Strawberry Patch...

Last week was A WEEK! Moving into the new church space in time for Holy Week and Easter was a blessing beyond measure. But, there was A LOT of work to do behind the scenes, going forward, to organize and personalize the spaces within the new church to ensure functionality. I took on the task of cleaning out what had been used as a former storage closet off of the chancel and transforming it into

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 3 years ago. under church , cleaning , miss fannie's hat , organizing , tulips

Visions and Dreams from From the Strawberry Patch...

Last week was A WEEK! Moving into the new church space in time for Holy Week and Easter was a blessing beyond measure. But, there was A LOT of work to do behind the scenes, going forward, to organize and personalize the spaces within the new church to ensure functionality. I took on the task of cleaning out what had been used as a former storage closet off of the chancel and transforming it into

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 3 years ago. under church , cleaning , miss fannie's hat , organizing , tulips

Secret Sewing, Garden and More from From My Carolina Home

It seems like it has been a while since I could share with you what I am working on in the sewing room. But, alas, everything I am currently doing is a secret. And it is multiple projects, LOL!! First, I am making progress on Pachanga, but I can’t show you that yet. Second, there is a super secret project that is in the works. Then, I finished a special tutorial project for Hands2Help, but that will be on Sarah’s blog in May. I’ll be starting on another project this week that will be for Fat Quarter ...

added by Carole @ From My Carolina Home 3 years ago. under cooking , garden , gardening , mountain living , quilting , secret sewing , tuesday night mediterranean , tulips (Comments)

Staying Focused from Quilty Folk

It feels so good to check a couple more projects off of the open-ended projects list. Gives me just a little bit of breathing room for the brand new starts. 'Cuz there's always gonna be new projects here, there and maybe every where!

Once again, it's a finish!

It was a relatively quick finish for the Ormes Inspired quilt once I put my mind to it. Just had to grit my teeth and plow through the last little bit of hand work on the batik fabric lettering. After that, there was a very small amount of effort to ...

added by audrey 3 years, 1 month ago. under ahiqhourglass , finished quilt tops are the bomb , improv. , ormes inspired , rhi's quilt , tulip series , tulips

Well-Loved Ladies QAL: Ruffled Tulips from Nestlings By Robin

Welcome to block 12

and our last block

before we get to assembly.

The photo above is a detail of

a circa 1860 quilt in my collection.

Normally I show you the block

and you can see a bit of it

in the upper corner, but I wanted

you to see the fun border

that was added too.

As we come closer to adding

a border, I wanted you to see

that I had other options from

my collection and it was

sooo hard to choose!

The quilting on this one

is all over the place from

clamshell, to flowers ...

added by Robin 3 years, 1 month ago. under #heritagearchitect , 1800s quilts , antique quilts , german folk art , nestlings by robin , pdf downloads , qal , quilt history , red and green applique , ruffled tulip , tulips , well-loved ladies , wll qal2020

Lotta Tulips from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

Well, I hung in there and sewed away to my heart's content and finished all the tulip blocks and the circle blocks! Love, love, love this! As each row was done, those rows were all sewn together so that when the time came to sew on the last two rows, it was simple and the centre was completed lickety- spit. Now, borders!

In my cleaning up process, I've been sewing together batting scraps. Got to get those under control. When I told my hubby what I was doing, he asked if I was cleaning out the OMG shower ...

added by Rose Marie 3 years, 2 months ago. under batting , tulips

Borders? What Borders? from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

I'm at that point with my "Corona Tulips" that it was time to pull out fabrics for borders! These are the fabrics chosen to finish off my thoughts for a cheery spring quilt.

Masks, masks and more masks! My niece sent me this photo of all her masks drying. Two kids times 3-4 masks each child per school day = lots of masks. She was having a hard time keeping track of masks for sending off and masks for washing/drying. The additional masks that were made last week are helping the task.

Yesterday, an UFO was pulled out and ...

added by Rose Marie 3 years, 2 months ago. under misc. , tulips

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