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Improving my skill set and building preferences

In the last two months, I have been a very busy quilt maker.

The image above shows that I have combined some sunflowers (the birds devoured the dried seeds within -Thanks Mom!) with threads for their nests. It seems like a win-win for our feathered friends! Food and nesting material, all on one NYC fire escape! What a great way to use up thread scraps!

Releasing a fabric line has been quite interesting! To experience these fabrics through the designing and print process, submitting them to a fabric house, and now, learning to effectively use them in quilts?

So. Much. Fun.

I will show this entire quilt top next week, during the Florabunda! Blog Hop Celebration. But for now, I would like to say, the pattern for this quilt can be found in Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s Modern Quilt Magic. Like so many of my fellow quilters, I am smitten with Victoria’s innovative quilts, her solid skill set and her precise methods of teaching. This year, I went from trying out ‘y seams‘, to sewing the Cascade quilts’ soft curves, to jumping right into to piecing a Bow Tie quilt with quarter circles! All three quilts use Victoria’s templates (I am a total fan-click links above)!

Where previously, I had told myself these techniques were too difficult or fiddly, now, I am All-In! This is easy! And fun. It’s been a joy to learn new skills, while acquiring preferences in how to most effectively use Florabunda!

During the Blog Hop, I will discuss how these three quilt/tops helped me build preferences and understand how to use Florabunda! effectively. So please join us, on June 7th!

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June 4, 2018 By Melanie Tagged With: Birds, Blog Hop, Flowers, NYC, RJR Fabrics, Superior Rainbow Threads, Victoria Findlay-Wolfe

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  1. Jeannie

    June 6, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    I am so looking forward to the hop. I know there will be inspiration over flowing each page. This fabric line is gorgeous. You done really, really good, Melly! I have a little wire bird basket that I put all my thread ends into. I have threads that have been dropped up in the branches of the ginkgo and the coral bark maple. It is so much fun to look up and see strands hanging down. When we had some work done on a tree, the arborist took down an old squirrel nest. There were threads, pieces of batting and fabric in it. 🙂

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