Home Grown Virtual Trunk Show

Today we're going to take you on a virtual trunk show of Nancy Halvorsen's Home Grown projects. 

Nancy has shared them all in her book, Home Grown. Take a peek:

In Our House

The book is based on this quilt--nine different applique scenes, each featuring a positive message. 

In addition to the quilt, Nancy shows how the blocks can be used in smaller formats--quicker to sew, easier to make, and fun to give as gifts. 

Nancy says, "I haven't done applique on a dark background before and I love how the colors pop on the gray. The center block is one of my favorites. I love how it turned out. Love Lives Here is another one of my favorites, and Believe In yourself." 

The center block as a pillow: 

The center block becomes a table topper with fun scalloped edges:

 A mini quilt with the bee skep:

The bright sunshine of Choose Happy on a pillow:

Dream Big: perfect for a baby's room:

Three blocks in a vertical wall hanging: 

Nancy also used many of the motifs from the quilt on tea towels--so sweet! 

Sweet mother-daughter aprons:

Chef aprons too!

The book also includes two additional quilts.

Home Grown

This quilt features the blocks from the panels, as well as pieced letters, houses, and hearts. 

Trellis Garden

This pieced quilt is made up of scrappy flowers. I love all the colors in it!

And don't forget the free quilt pattern, available on the Benartex website:
Our Nest is Best designed by Heidi Pridemore

Click here to download the pattern.

Click here to see the entire Home Grown collection.
Click here to download the Our Nest is Best free quilt pattern. 

Click here to visit Nancy's Art to Heart website and click here to find her Home Grown book. 

Follow along with our week of Home Grown fun! We'll be sharing inspiring projects featuring the fabric all week long.
Monday
Introducing Home Grown @ Sew in Love with Fabric

Tuesday
Debby @ Debby Kratovil Quilts
Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation

Wednesday
Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt
Nancy @Masterpiece Quilting

Thursday
Jennie @ Clover and Violet
Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts

Friday
Nancy's Virtual Trunk Show @ Sew in Love with Fabric

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Warp & Weft Virtual Trunk Show

We've got a real treat for you today: A virtual trunk show of Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr's projects made using their Warp & Weft fabrics. They've created five projects, and they're all conveniently featured in the Warp & Weft publication. They've also shared a free quilt pattern (see Tube Socks below).

Plaid Happy

47" x 76"

This quilt uses the gray and white plaid in the background of the blocks. That one check just transforms the rest of the quilt. 

Click here to purchase the publication containing the Plaid Happy pattern
and here to purchase the kit. 

Plain Spoken
51" x 77"
This quilt mixes the yarn dyes with prints from Printology. They play well together! You don't have to have equal amounts of every fabric, but you do need good contrast among the prints and yarn dyes so the pieces don't blend into each other. 

Click here to purchase the publication containing the Plain Spoken pattern
and here to purchase the kit.

Triple Play
50" x 72"
For this quilt, we chose a low-contrast palette of yarn dyes and Printology fabrics--the "worker bee" tonal fabrics. The pieced sections are made using improvisational piecing techniques, which you can cut wonky or straight. 

Click here to purchase the publication containing the Triple Play pattern
and here to purchase the kit.

Fringe Benefits

24" square pillow or wall hanging

These squares are appliqued on, and then stitched down with a 1/4" seam allowance. Then we pulled a few threads out to fray the edges for a textured look. 

Click here to purchase the publication containing the Fringe Benefits pattern.

Tube Socks
47" x 78"
When we decided to develop modern quilts, our first rule of thumb was not to use traditional 19th century patterns--we wanted to use motifs from our modern lifestyle. Tube socks--like our daughter's soccer socks--definitely fit into that category. They made their heyday in the 80s, but they've made a comeback too. This was a fun quilt to design and puts a smile on our faces whenever we see it. 

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

Want to see more Warp & Weft fun? 

Click here to read an interview with Weeks and Bill about their new collection. 

Click here to see the entire Warp & Weft collection.
Visit Weeks and Bill's website. 

Click here to read Debby Kratovil's Technique Tuesday post.

Click here to see the Around the Block topper tutorial.

Click here to see the Pillow Duo tutorial.

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By Hand: Virtual Trunk Show

The past few days, we've been sharing Amy Friend's By Hand collection with you, and we're finishing up the week with a virtual trunk show of quilts Amy designed. Several of the quilts use improvisational paper piecing--Amy's go-to technique--but if that's not for you, you'll find designs that use traditional piecing as well. Enjoy! 

Magic Spark

60” x 76”

"This quilt is based on improvisational paper piecing techniques. I was playing iwht the idea of radiating lines, and I started changing the size and the rotation to create a really neat spinning star. Where four blocks meet, you get another type of star. I put the prints in spectrum order, and the light and dark purple stars in the center really pop out. I used the Stripe Fade print in the background, which adds a ton of interest to the quilt. I’ll be teaching this at QuiltCon in February."

Click here to purchase the Magic Spark pattern.

  

Negativity

60” x 68”

"The first version of this quilt was all solids and hung at QuiltCon last year in the small quilts category. This is also an improv paper piecing quilt, with a small repeated half hexagon. I love that when  you remove a pair of half hexagons, you get a negative hexagon shape. It’s super easy to make." 

Click here to purchase the Negativity pattern.

Dogwood

60” x 72”

"This quilt is also foundation pieced. I wanted something flower like, and I think this looks like a simple dogwood blossom because of the four points. I removed a row of piecing to create a well defined area of negative space. I think this quilt has a modern aesthetic even while using a block with a more traditional feel."

Click here to purchase the Dogwood pattern.

Game Board

60” x 72”

"This is for people who don’t like foundation piecing as much as I do. It’s strip pieced with some half-square triangles as well. I played with the warm and cool colors of the spectrum, pairing each dark next to its coordinating light in the strip. The blocks are offset so some of them appear to fall off the quilt. This quilt has a lot of fun negative space for machine quilting."

Click here to purchase the Game Board pattern.

Free quilt pattern: 

Keyed Up

76" square 

"I wanted to keep this quilt simple, and it's made of easy-to-piece strips. The design plays with the light and dark pairings of each color, and the warm and cool strip sets are staggered a bit. There's plenty of neat negative space within the design as well." 

Click here to download the free Keyed Up pattern.

Find more By Hand fun using the links below!

By Hand Hop Schedule
Monday:

Introducing By Hand

Tuesday: 

Laura - Slice of Pi Quilts; @sliceofpiquilts

Kari - Craft Happy; IG - @quiltsforthemaking

Wednesday: 

Sheri - Whole Circle Studio; IG - @wholecirclestudio

Erin - Why Not Sew; IG - @whynotsewquilts

Thursday: 

Rachel - Rachel Rossi: IG - @designsbyrr

Fat Quarterly Sneak Peek

Friday: 

Amy Friend's Virtual Trunk Show

Click here to see the entire By Hand collection.

Click here to visit Amy's website. 

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Words to Live By Virtual Trunk Show

We hope you've felt inspired by Cherry's Words to Live By fabrics this week! Today we're sharing a virtual trunk show of Cherry's quilts made with her fabrics. Enjoy!

City Block

59" x 77"

"The title says it all. The quilts loo like city blocks with little connecting shapes. It's all appliqued, and it's the same block, just rotated so they connect. I used the appliques to create the transparent effect."

Click here to purchase the City Block pattern.

Bee-utiful

20" x 27"

"This one is fun because it includes words. In my Front Porch collection, I had a bee print and really liked it. I started creating cute little sayings that started with "bee." It's a small and super easy project with a small amount of hand embroidery for the words and spirals."

Click here to purchase the Bee-utiful pattern.

Alphabet Soup
48" x 58"
"This includes appliques for the entire alphabet in upper and lower case, plus the flowers and keys. The pattern comes with instructions to make the quilt shown, but you can also make your own word quilt. I give you the templates and a grid, plus a formula to figure out yardage, and you can build your own. There's also Alphabet Soup in the Hoop - for all the shapes done in a standard hoop on your embroidery machine. You can stitch out each letter with a satin stitch or blanket stitch finish. It takes all of 5 minutes to do a letter."

Click here to purchase the Alphabet Soup pattern.

Buon Appetito

12" x 32" wall hangings

18" x 13" place mats

"I'm teaching in Italy in October, so it was perfect to give this pattern an Italian name. I wanted this line to be home decor friendly. I used the idea of my Bon Appetit pattern but redid it with more elegance--more formal silverware on a pieced background made from the wood grain and lace print. The tables have an educational purpose--most people know where the fork and spoon go, but it's great to have on the kitchen table for when your kids or grandkids set the table."

Click here to purchase the pattern.

Cherry also created a free quilt pattern, Live By Love for her Words to Live by collection using the Love panel. Fussy-cut each block and surround it with pre-cut strips for a quick and easy quilt. 

Click here to download the free pattern.

Missed our previous Words to Live By posts? 

Words to Live By Hop Schedule:

Tuesday: Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts

Wednesday: Benartex Design Team

Thursday: Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt

Friday: Mary @ Needled Mom

Click here to see the entire Words to Live By collection.

Click here to read an interview with Cherry about her Words to Live By collection. 

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