Poodle Strip Quilt and Garden Update
I have had this stack of fabric sitting in my sewing room for quite some time. Months ago I swapped Alison for two of the fabrics – one from Jennifer Paganelli’s Poodle line and one from Dena Design’s Leanika line. I wasn’t planning on using them together when I swapped for them, but once they arrived I loved how they coordinated.
I paired them up with a couple different Kona pinks and browns, Sandi Henderson’s Henna Garden in Spring and Pink and another Poodle print from Etsy. I just love the combination.
For the back I simply did wider strips of the same fabrics. It makes it reversible which is always nice. I quilted it with straight lines, 1/4″ on the top and bottom of the seams of the strips on the front. The binding is the lighter Kona pink from the front. It measures 57″ x 40″. This quilt was donated to the 100 Quilts for Kids program.
I also wanted to give you a garden (ahem…farm) update. I am 2 months in and so far it has been pretty successful. The weeds think so anyway!
I have had pretty good success with all the seeds. What you are looking at here is sunflowers, cosmos, corn, pumpkin, watermelon and cantaloupe (still too small to see in this photo), carrots, scallions, cucumber, lettuce, peppers, beans and tomatoes (which are almost all out of the photo). Everything was started from a seed except the peppers and tomatoes. I have spent a LOT of time weeding. I noticed everyone around me has mini tillers that they use to keep the dirt tilled up and the weeds from taking over. Maybe I will consider that next year if I do this again. 600 square feet is a lot to maintain. But it has been fun and I look forward to harvesting more vegetables soon. The lettuce is already ready and tasty!
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Tagged as: Dena Designs · Jennifer Paganelli · Kona Solids · Modern Quilts · straight line quilting
Try laying cardboard down and then a light mulch on top – it will make a great weed barier for the rest of the season and keep your beds straightened out!
Looking good!
Have you thought of trying raised flower beds? We love ours and after a few weedings they dont get many weeds.
Heather, I would *love* to do that. Unfortunately this is a community garden plot so they aren’t allowed. If I had sunny space in my yard, I would do raised beds for sure.
So pretty! And your garden looks awesome!
Congratulations on the quilt and the garden, but especially the garden! Keeping weeds at bay is no small chore. I know! How cool that you have access to a community garden.
I love strip quilts and yours is lovely. Someone in my guild recently pointed out how easy it is to quilt-as-you-go with a strip quilt, though she used some technical term for it that entered and left my self-taught brain within a days time. Should have written it down.
Hi: Will the good folks scrappy quilt pattern be available sometimes soon? I just like it so much, that I would like o make one . I even like the colors.
Thanks Jeannette
Hi Jeannette! I’m glad you like the Good Folks Scrappy quilt! I don’t have a pattern for it, it was really just made by piecing together strips of leftover fabric until I ran out. If you didn’t have scraps, you could take a FQ set and cut random width strips and sew those together. The fabric set I used was Anna Maria Horner’s Good Folks line.
That is a lovely fabric combo. I am a big fan of the pink/browns right now!
~ Kimberlee at The Spunky Diva
LOVE that quilt!
Our garden hasn’t been real successful this year. The tomatoes look less than promising and we are not real sure where the potatoes disappeared to.
Your quilt is lovely!!! Kudos on the garden, it’s a lot of work to make it successful, but a what a great way to enjoy the summer sun. It looks super!
Thanks, Faith!!! It’s such a great quilt!