terri kirchner's fabriKations

Sunday, January 17, 2010

New Pattern coming next month!


Back in the saddle again after the holidays which were full of family and traveling.

I travel with BBD Creations, Inc. to the Naples Quilt Show in March. We will be offering a new quilt especially for the sun lover in all of us Northerners! You do know my home is nicknamed the Hacienda de Flamenca! (House of Flamingos, a passion of my husband's). The quilt is inspired from the BBD Creation bookmark with the same name. Bonnie made the bookmark on a dare when I said it would sell if they did more Northern quilt shows..true to form, the bookmark has been doing well and the pattern was the next best step in our game plan.

The quilt features a beautiful flamingo bending over to feed on the mud flats. I used a lot of hand dyed cotton from Starr Designs, a nice mocha MODA marble background and it is bordered by a rich brown batik! I used fusible web for the applique but it could be easily be hand or machine appliqued as well. There is a lot of thread on this little quilt! I used Aurifil variegated on the flamingo and a Superior So Fine to compress the wool batting to get the "worm" trails in the background.

This is a quilt destined for the little narrow walls in the foyer or the skinny space above the powder room loo! It is only 12 inches wide by 45 inches long...just as the flamingo is taller rather than wider, this little gem goes together very quickly in a weekend!