Hearts and Flowers

Hello everyone, I am Shirley from Stitcherydo blog and I am excited at finally joining in. I have been watching all your works of art unfolding and it has motivated me to get going. You have all been such an inspiration so, thank you.

I found Kim's patterns quite by chance whilst browsing for something else and I was immediately hooked. I sent off for several patterns and began hoarding those fabrics which I knew would come in handy one day and then I bought the Kaffe Fassett book that had the Hearts and Flowers quilt in it and that was it. Had to start it. It took some time though deciding on a background fabric and after a holiday where we saw some gaily painted gypsy caravans I thought why not do a darker background? I found the deep lavender colour at a show but still had doubts over it. Now that it is under way I think it will be ok. The more colour I add to it the more gypsyish it is looking.




I prepped the hearts way before I had a background colour chosen and at least that little bit is ready for applique.

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love the colour pink and no matter how hard I try not to do a pink quilt, a pink quilt is usually the result. I can safely say that this is no exception. Inspite of all the various fabrics it still looks pink.

Happy stitching.

Shirley