Home Grown by Benartex

Contest is over and we have a winner!

Home Grown by Nancy Halvorsen are the featured fabrics at the Sew in Love with Fabric blog today. Nancy's fabrics and quilts have always appealed to me because I love happy, bright, cheerful patterns and colors and these did not disappoint. I asked for a bundle of fat quarters and a half yard of the main print.

Home Grown fabrics by Nancy Halvorsen

This collection centers around an awesome set of panels - one large and four smaller ones. I feel like I got lucky in that the four smaller panels finish to 10"!

Panels from the Home Grown collection

I took a few days to let these percolate in my head and they finally whispered: "We want  birdhouses to go with us. Can you make some birdhouses?" Of course! I have a set of upsized 10" paper pieced birdhouses that would go perfectly with these.

My 60s A-Frame:

60's A-Frame: 7-1/2" x 10"

Beginner's Birdhouse:

Beginner's Birdhouse: 6-1/2" x 10"

 Home Tweet Home:

Home Tweet Home: 7-1/2" x 10"

 Room for One Birdhouse:

Room for One Birdhouse: 6" x 10"

Here is my finished quilt, quilted and bound on June 13. I call it "The Birds and the Bees at Home."

The Birds and the Bees At Home: 40" x 48"

I used four of the ten upsized Birdhouse patterns in my pattern set. You can see them all at my Etsy shop.