The Garden quilt by Joanne

There are a lot of flowers in this first quilt that Joanne ever brought me to quilt, fortunately she has brought me many more since.  Joanne was referred by a couple of friends that she does aqua-size with, I do appreciate referrals.

The Garden quilt

Joanne decided that The Garden should be quilted with the Blowing in the Wind pantograph by Irene Steele and we used a light olive thread.  Appropriate for the name of this quilt as well as the colours.

Blowing in the Wind pantograph

I have featured Joanne’s jewelry and teacup pin cushions on my blog before, have a look at the post and perhaps check out her etsy shop. 

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage. . ~ Thomas Kincade

The Colour Orange

The month of September is Orange at soscrappy’s RainbowChallenge, which I love to participate in.  Over the past week or two I’ve worked on my little orange four-patches for my Rainbow Rows quilt (by Lissa Alexander), just over 80 little four-patches here. 

Two and a half inch four-patches

I’m now finished the four-patches in all the colours I need.  I also have all my two and a half inch low volume squares as well as the sashing.   

Over 800 four-patches 

Two and a half inch squares

Scrappy sashing

I’m excited to get started on sewing the blocks together.  There will be one with four little four-patches in it and one with five of the four-patches. I’ll start by just pulling four-patches out of the stash, however knowing me I’ll start to control it in some way.

Rainbow Rows blocks

Do take a moment to check out The Rainbow Scrap Challenge and see what others are doing with orange.

The colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French orenge, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orenge. That name comes from the Arabic naranj, through the Persian naranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice come out- because that’s what’s inside.  When you are squeezed, what come out is what’s inside. ~ Wayne Dyer