Another Set of Quilt Twins

I emptied another workshop box a few weeks ago and found some fun border fabric to set my last 16 blocks/units together. I amazed myself to find that the leftover blocks would make a pleasing center, even though they are not all of the same fabrics! Red, green and blue prints for those backgrounds around the spiky paper pieced blocks.

Sunflower Garden: 47" x 47"

 The first quilt I made appeared in my last book (Paper Piecing Perfect Points, 2013). I called it Katie's Garden. Katie? A friend or relative? No. Just the name of the fabric collection from Benartex! Easy enough!

I made a smaller quilt using 4 units (for one block). This uses the Gazebo Collection by Windham.

Simple workshop sample

I added some borders and quilted it and gave it away to some little kid. Side borders are chickens. Top and bottom borders are cats. I sure hope they get along and don't fight in front of the little kid!

Gazebo Garden quilt: 40" x 40"

Now, let's see the first quilt I made using this foundation paper pieced pattern I designed. I stitched a LOT of 8" blocks!

Katie's Garden: 48" x 60"

Here's one block (4 units) up close. The 4 units create a 16" block.

16" block. SO many spikes!

You can see the steps to foundation piecing this block in an earlier post: Katie's Garden Blocks

The giveaway is gone, but lots of photos on how to stitch this!

I gave away all my leftover foundations at my quilt guild a few weeks ago. Maybe a few more blocks will appear, but they won't come from me!