Countryside blooms

More countryside blooms. . .I just had to cut this bouquet of daffodil blooms.  They are so beautiful.  Colder freezing weather with wind and rain is predicted for our area this week.  Although this freezing weather will not kill the plants, it will wilt the blooms. 

Also at this old home place sight are some "Butter & Egg" daffodils just budding out to bloom.  I hope the freezing weather does not kill their buds.  I think I might need to make myself a mug rug with a daffie bloom on it to enjoy with my coffee during this cold spell.  With freezing weather like this, being tucked inside stitching will keep me and my soul warm!

Daffie blooms

These daffie blooms (Narcissus, Daffodil, Jonquil) are peeking out today at an old home place sight in the rural countryside near where I live.  The home is long gone. . . . .I wonder how old these plants are?  The gardening information that I read listed nine different varieties of heirloom daffodils that are often seen blooming this time of year along the roadsides and old homeplaces here in the south.

      
Happy Valentine's Day!  

Pattern Debut

Vintage Blooms Quilt Designs very first pattern, the Sewing Machine Mat, Spring Mat, pattern #01 made its debut at the Front Porch Quilt Shoppe, Ozark, Alabama.  I want to express a very special thank you to Melanie Simpson for the awesome display and to all my sweet quilty friends for the nice comments about the pattern.

Fabrics used to make the mat are from the "Somerset" collection from

 Joanna Figueroa, Fig Tree & Company for Moda fabrics.

Shown also in the display are the "Somerset" Aurifil thread collection kits.

figtreeandcompany.com

modafabrics.com

aurifil.com

Patterns are available for purchase at the shop.  Price $7.00

www.frontporchquiltshoppe.com

In the Beginning - The Very First Pattern

I can not tell you all how excited I am that my very first pattern design has been printed. The Sewing Machine Mat, Spring Mat, pattern #01 is now available.  The template to create the petals in this pattern design was created from the actual petals of the flowers blooming in my garden.  While attending the AQS Quilt Show last September in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I treated myself to a new Juki sewing machine.  I purchased a Juki TL2010Q, Juki Corporation, jukihome.com.  This machine is sew awesome!  I hope  to "play" a bit more with free motion quilting using this machine.  So I decided that I needed a new sewing machine mat to go under this machine and for taking to classes.  I made this sewing machine mat pattern just a bit wider so that the Juki machine fits nicely sitting on top!  This is my machine pictured in the pattern photo.  Fabrics shown in the design photo are from the collection "Somerset", by Joanna Figueroa, FigTree Fabrics, figtreeandcompany.com for Moda Fabrics, modafabrics.com.  FigTree fabrics have always been a favorite of mine.
Let me add that it is a lot of work to write pattern instructions.  I sure am thankful for my high school English teacher, Sara,  (she is now my sister-in-law.)  I hope everyone that gets this pattern enjoys making and using the mat.  Create something awesome!

                                                               

Vintage Blooms Quilt Designs has blossomed!

Blossomed

A quilting friend of mine, Karen Williamson,  nanagirlquilts.blogspot.com, has been encouraging me to start my blog.  So today is the day!   Vintage Blooms Quilt Designs blog has blossomed!  I am mostly a self taught beginner quilter.  I have taken classes from local quilt shops and at quilting shows and retreats that I have attended the past few years.  I still consider myself a beginner, even though I have made many quilts, because I am always open to try new techniques and new designs.  I have taught classes at Front Porch Quilt Shoppe in Ozark, AL frontporchquiltshoppe.com; Quilted Creations Quilt Shop in Headland, AL quiltedcreations.net; and Quilting by the Bay Quilt Shop in Panama City, FL quiltingbythebay.com. I have also taught classes and techniques at my local quilt Guilds.  

My loves are stitching quilts and wool, crossstitch, bunnies, sunflowers and vintage blooms!  I have designed and created my very first pattern, with the encouragement from some quilting friends.  I hope to have the pattern printed and available soon.