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Quilting: Tori's Watercolor Garden
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Tori's Watercolor Garden

Pattern Info

This project was designed by scol409.
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Tori's Watercolor Garden

Instructions

Lay out your 2" squares on the grid fusible web in a pleasing pattern. Just fool around with it until it makes you happy! Add embellishments, embroidery, etc. The only difficult part was deciding when it was finished, when it had enough 'stuff' on it! For the watercolor quilts I hide my grandchild's name embroidered on some place and make them hunt for it. They love it.
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Category: Quilting

Type of item: Functional

For: Girls

Style: Whimsical

Materials

2" square fusible web, 2 " watercolor squares - lights, mediums, darks, applique bugs, birds, butterflies, cotton binding, embroidery floss, fabric and ribbon flowers, yo yo flowers..

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patz in suffolk on craftsy.com
patz in suffolk
Jul 30, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Thank you for your detailed explanation of how you make these beautiful quilts. They are absolutely stunning!
scol409 on craftsy.com
scol409
Jun 01, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
The fusible grid paper is available at many craft and quilting shops. I just did a quick google and came up with several locations.... Joann Fabric, Softexpressions.com, whimsy.......... just do a google for the closest to your area.
Sue Adams on craftsy.com
Sue Adams
Jun 01, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
A project for the future - love the watercolor effect.
Ahlgirl on craftsy.com
Ahlgirl
May 31, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Did you use a pattern?
scol409 on craftsy.com
scol409
May 31, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
No pattern. I bought a bunch of precut 2" squares and the fusible grid paper back in the late 90's but I was intimidated and afraid to try it. Then I just started playing around with it and put the darks in a graduated pattern to the side and lights to the upper left corner. I did that for the first two quilts but on this one I got the brilliant idea to put a sun in the upper right corner with sun rays filtering through. My kids think I am nuts..... my grand daughters think I am 'magic'. For my next one I am going to do a black arbor in the garden to look like wrought iron out of black binding. We'll see how that comes out!! I have seen watercolor hearts, watercolor crosses, watercolor abstracts. The sky is the limit!
Sewingnana11 on craftsy.com
Sewingnana11
May 30, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
This is beautiful.....someday I want to try to do one of these.....add it to my list of "someday" projects..thanks for sharing
scol409 on craftsy.com
scol409
May 31, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
I love the fusible grid paper. It comes in large sheets and you just lay your squares on it. Then you press them into place and the process is hard to explain.... you fold one row onto itself and sew your 1/4 inch seam. Then you fold TWO rows over and do the next line. You do the whole quilt vertically and then you sew each row horizontally.
Crafty Rosie on craftsy.com
Crafty Rosie
May 30, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
how do you do this, are the flowers appliqued on after you do the quilt base/background, it is beautiful, would like to try something like this.
scol409 on craftsy.com
scol409
May 30, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
I do the watercolor top first, put the batting and back on next, and then apply all the embellishments to the front. I hand sew all the things on with little tiny stitches going thru the top and batting but I don't go all the way thru the back. The little picket fence was made out of white binding. Some of my bugs and butterflies were the iron on appliques but I still stitched around the outside of them to make sure they were kid proof. The yo yo flowers were stitched on tightly so that no little fingers could pry them off. I've made 3 of these watercolor gardens for my 3 granddaughters and have one more to make for the baby yet. They loved the little touch of me embroidering their names hidden in the flowers.
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scol409
May 31, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
I bought a bunch of precut 2" watercolor squares (I think it was from Whimsy) so I have a box started of choices. They are all flowered materials in different scales, lights, mediums and darks. When you group a set of them together you want the squares to blend but from a distance you can still see distinct image. It's so much fun!
Dtraut on craftsy.com
Dtraut
May 30, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Love it!
Crafty Rosie on craftsy.com
Crafty Rosie
May 30, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Wow I so love it and what a great idea with the names, so this is your own pattern is it, how do you know how many pieces to cut etc,
beeboop71 on craftsy.com
beeboop71
May 29, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Absolutely beautiful!
Crafty Rosie on craftsy.com
Crafty Rosie
May 31, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
I am in australia, does anyone know where I can buy this grid paper from, I really want to try this.

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