Featured this week is KT fabric collection #25 - Wildflower Serenade. Some lighter, brighter colors joined the KT classics for a fresh look in this line. An antique quilt inspired the crewelwork prints.
A friend of mine with a keen eye, Connie Huddleson (designer for Starry Pines and proprietor of The Little Wool Shoppe in Windsor, CO) found the quilt (see Wednesday's post pic) at Houston Market several years ago. The center appears to be a remnant from crewel-work drapery panels with assorted star and hexagon blocks arranged around the perimeter, some just whacked off to fit. She knew immediately I'd love it - and she was right. Don't you wish we could be that free with our quilts? Just piece and chop as needed. How freeing!
crewelwork center of antique quilt
Wildflower Star Duet features a centerpiece of the reproduction crewelwork fabric surrounded by 2 sizes of stars. Pattern $3.00.
Flower Basket Trio - rich reds, browns and tans pieced into beautiful baskets for your bed. Pattern $3.00.
Email Robert directly (ktqrmh@twinvalley.net) today thru Sept. 2nd for either of these patterns at clearance prices and actual shipping costs. Watch for more patterns next week.
Check in Monday for the winner of the Wildflower Serenade charm pack. I'll be on my way to the Buggy Barn in Reardon, WA for their annual outdoor quilt show/classes. Hoping for cooler weather. I'll check in via my iPad (if it cooperates!).
I loved the blues and especially the browns in the Wildflower Serenade line. Have fun at Buggy Barn!
ReplyDeleteLove Wildflower Serenade! Wish I was going to Buggy Barn, too! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteLove the color combination of Wildflower Serenade. Even the name is lovely. Thanks! Enjoy your trip.
ReplyDeleteWe're wishing for cooler weather too!! Enjoy your trip. Linda x
ReplyDeleteWildflower Star Duet is very attractive.
ReplyDeleteLove the Wildflower Serenade name...reminds me of my FIL's garden a few years back. Enjoy your time at the Buggy Barn.
ReplyDeleteI live near Amish Country here in Ohio. They have a shop hop every fall. One year I purchased a sampler pattern from one of the shops. Later that winter I found the Wildflower Serenade fabric. I bought some of it for the backing, border and background of the sampler. Then mixed all my other KT fabrics with it and made the most beautiful Sampler quilt. That is what I love most about KT fabrics... the fact that you can mix them all together and they go great! When traveling to different shops I always looks to see if someone has some older fabrics by KT that I don't have and I pick it up for my stash.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your trip... I love Washington, it is truly a beautiful state. But we have many here in our great country!
Onalee...
Stow, Ohio
The colors you use are great! Love to have some of your fabric!
ReplyDeleteLove the Wildflower Serenade fabrics...and I too wish I was heading to Washington and the Buggy Barn. Someday...someday...
ReplyDeleteLove those fabrics and colors. I make hexagons and find it easier to fill in the quilt till I get the size, then I whack off the edges to make a straight border. Easier than trying to make half hexagons;)
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Though I have a lot of KT fabrics, I think this collection has eluded me. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love your colors. It really would be fun to whack to fit. Have to try it. Thanks for the fun!
ReplyDeleteI love the Wildflower Serenade fabric. I will always keep KT fabrics as my favorite because I like darker shades of colors. I really like the Flower Basket Trio quilt pattern you featured. Thanks for the giveaways! Lana
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fabric. Have fun at Buggy Barn! {wish I could hop into your suitcase} ;-)
ReplyDeleteLOVE THAT WILDFLOWER SERENADE COMBO!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR YOUR IDEAS!
THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY!
HAPPY QUILTING!
Love that fabric!!! The quilt is wonderful too!!! Have fun on your trip!! Bev E
ReplyDeleteI love Wildflower Serenade. I have a block of the month that the LQS sponsored a while back that used this fabric. Enjoy your trip.
ReplyDeleteOHG! Just love the idea...inspiration comes from everywhere! L
ReplyDeleteWildflower Serenade is one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteI adore Wildflower Serenade and have layer cakes of 1 and 2 for a project. Would love some charms to go with them!
ReplyDeleteI adore the fabric and color and the name "wild flower serenade" thanks!
ReplyDeletethanks for a chance to win - laurie
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Have a great time. This is a lovely line, thanks for a chance.
ReplyDeleteThe Flower Basket Trio, with its rich reds, browns, tans and the pieced baskets, is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteOh how I agree with the thought of just chopping and sewing...I realize it was out of neccessity...but you are right... how freeing! janet
ReplyDeleteI love it..peice and chop. It is freeing. I made a quilt using antique patches I found at a resale shop. I had to chop them off for the borders. It was scary at first, but once I got started it was kind of fun. I still have those little 30's scraps. I'll put them into a crazy quilt or something.
ReplyDeleteI like this fabric line, Wildflower Serenade. Have fun at Buggy Barn!
What a lovely quilt, and I love your rendition of it! Have fun in WA. We just moved from there to HOT Texas! You will surely find cooler weather in WA. :o)
ReplyDeleteOooh - anything with wildflowers just calls my name. Beautiful fabric (love those blues). Thanks for the opportunity!!!
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Pretty fabric.... I'm going to have to check out this Buggy Barn business.... I think Reardon is driving distance from me! Thanks for the heads up... Have fun!
ReplyDeleteLove Wildflower Serenade!!! Have a wonderful time in Reardon.
ReplyDeleteGreat colors. Would love to add them to my stash. Have a safe trip.
ReplyDeleteI love Wildflower Serenade! I think it was the first jelly roll I ever bought! :0)
ReplyDeleteI haven't met a Kansas Troubles Charm Pack I didn't like and this wonderful Wildflower Serenade is no different. My hubz thinks I am Kansas Troubles obsessed. If he only knew!!! Thanks
ReplyDeleteTrue fan of ALL your lines, but Wildflower Serenade is one of my all time favorites! Have fun on your trip to Buggy Barn!
ReplyDeleteJill
Love the fabrics! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fabrics, as always! Thanks for another chance to win! (Cooler weather sounds heavenly.)
ReplyDeleteOh love the Wildflower Serenade pack. Bu then I love everything KT! Pam
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the trip - lovely color combo.
ReplyDeleteOh those Wildflower Serenade fabrics are singing to me....can't you hear them? How lover-ly!
ReplyDeleteWildflower Serenade is one of my favorite KT collections -- the name sounds wonderful as is the fabric
ReplyDeleteNow you've got me thinking....Grandma's old quilt needs some "recreating." Whacking and chopping sounds scary to me, though....I'll keep the thinking cap on.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful having a friend who knows exactly what we like. I admire those who take the plunge and dive into cutting those carefully pieced blocks. I really like the lighter colors in the photo of the charms. They'd be perfect for some basket blocks with wildflowers in them. Phlox, Indian paintbrush, asters....
ReplyDeleteLynne, would you please recommend some patterns which will work well with your new flannel collection. i've been to the quilt shop twice drooling....
ReplyDeleteThank you for all you do for us!
Brenda Anderson
Edmond, OK