Windmills and Wildflowers

The “Field Day” fabric collection by Alison Glass for Andover Fabrics has just hit the stores and we are excited to share our new quilt pattern “Windmills and Wildflowers” featuring Alison’s “Field Day” and “Pearl Bracelets” fabrics. This dynamic quilt has both piecing and appliqué techniques and is suitable for the intermediate quilter. 

Pink Hippo Quilts has been designing quilts for Andover for almost a year, and our quilt “Cadence,” designed with Carol Van Zandt’s “Pop Rox,” has had record sales and will soon be featured in Keepsake Quilting. Our free to use quilt patterns for Andover include “Seaside at Dusk,” “Flower Trail,” “Hey Sugar” and “Cottage Garden.” Please visit PinkHippoQuilts.com www.pinkhippoquilts.com to order “Windmills and Wildflowers” and see our other quilt patterns featuring Andover Fabric collections. We accept both retail and wholesale orders.

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Excited to be featured in Riley Blakes Newsletter today

http://issuu.com/rileyblakedesigns/docs/rbd_mailer_june_2014_consumer

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Cadence featured at Market in the Andover Booth

Thanks to my friend Daryl Cohen of Andover Fabrics for posting a picture of our Cadence Quilt hanging at market (top right).  This is a smaller version of the quilt.  Cadence was made with Pop Rox fabric by Andover Fabrics and Carol Van Zandt.

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New Free Patterns

It was our pleasure to design 2 new free patterns for Andover Designs.

The first pattern is Low Tide with Fabric by Andover Designs and Jane Dixon.  Click on the picture to be taken to the free pattern on the Andover site.

The second pattern is Flower Trail by Andover Fabrics and Lizzy House.  Click on the picture to be taken to the free pattern on the Andover site.

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Posy Patch introduced at Market

Introducting our new quilt Posy Patch designed with Lula Magnolia fabrics by Riley Blake Designs and  Amanda Herring of The Quilted Fish.  You can see it below hanging at market in the Riley Blake Booth.  

 

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Cadence

I received a picture today of our "Cadence" quilt design hanging at a shop in Upstate New York.  I thought i would share the picture here.  I just love this quilt.  I just received my fabric and can't wait to make my own.

The fabric designer of Pop Rox is Carol Van Zandt distributed by Andover Fabrics.  The pattern was designed for Pink Hippo Quilts by by Vetmari.

The pattern is available on our website at http://www.pinkhippoquilts.com/.  Click on the link to be taken there directly.



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Edita's Spring Bouquet

I want to share a video I watched today from one of my favorite quilters, Edita Sitar. It is her quilting window for her Spring Bouquet quilt featuring fusible applique techniques. I learned quite a few things from this like the tip about putting the light under my fabric to layout my applique. I do love my applique. Even though I prefer needleturn applique, some of the techniques here cross over.


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More FREE Patterns - Each one gets better and better

Introducing the "Cotton Garden Quilt" designed by Yvette Jones for Pink Hippo Quilts.  It is featured as a free pattern download on the Andover Fabrics Website

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Student Pictures

What a delight this week to see my student Louise Lemon and the beautiful quilt she made from our class last year on L'amoutr est Trouve. She added a wonderful corded scalloped border to her quilt with great results. See from the pictures here how nice it looks.

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My Addiction to Pink

Our new Rosie Outlook Quilt Pattern is a showstopper.

I love showing it off!  Of course I love pink in all it's shades.  Guess you could say I never met a pink I didn't like.  As a teenager living in San Francisco I always had a pink coat

Many years have gone by now and I don't have pink coats anymore.  I did have a beautiful pink wool suit that was my favorite until someone threw it into the wash and it became a really small .  So now I settle for a pink bedroom and pink quilts.  

I love this design.  Making hexagons is addictive and I want to design several quilts with them.  So this is number one.  I hope you like it too.  

Midway, UT, Zermatt Resort and Season's of Home.

After a trip up Provo Canyon past Sundance and Deer Creek Reservoir I took the road to Midway Utah and discovered a land I'd never seen before.  What fun to stop at Zermatt Resort and feel like you are in Switzerland or Germany and only be 35 miles from my home.  I especially loved the flowers.  It was so quaint

And better yet on the way home my friend Krisanne and I stopped in at a wonderful quilt store - Season's of Home.  They carried lines of fabric I rarely see in the other stores which was a treat and several new pattern designers.  I wished I had time to make several of the quilts on display.

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Riley Blake Fabric Fest pictures

What a great time last week at the Riley Blake Fabric Fest in Las Vegas, NV.  There was eye candy everywhere you looked.  I can hardly wait until our own Quilt St. George Quilt Retreat on January 14-17, 2014.

I also had a booth at Fabric Fest last week and also I had quilts in the fashion show.  Altogether I was showing 13 quilts.  Here are some of the pictures.

Pinwheel Posies by Pink Hippo Quilts
Designed by Vetmari

Diamond Garden by Pink Hippo Quilts

Red Riding Hood Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts

Pink Hippo Quilts booth featuring Mystic Buttercups, Spring Princess, L'amour est Trouve and Affair of the Heart

Ella's Garden Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts designed by Vetmari

Bonkers for Boys quilt pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts and designed by Vetmari

Starry Nights Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts

Cowboy's Compass Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts

Rosie Outlook Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts

Moon Rays Quilt Pattern by Pink Hippo Quilts

And did I mention meeting Eleanor Burns and taking classes from her.  Good times.  The best was her tuesday evening show "El's Kitchen" which had everyone in stitches.

Eleanor Burns from Quilt in a Day is a quilting legend.

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Red Riding Hood

I had to name the quilt Red Riding Hood because the fabric on the back is red with small white polka dots and it has a strip of "Red" herself prancing across the back of the quilt.  So Cute!

So here is the quilt.  Kathryn Carbine from Stitching Corner, Orem quilted so beautifully.  this is one of my favorite quilts.  Patterns are available on my website.  

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Hexie Video now on YouTube

Who doesn't have just 1 minute to find out how to make those cute hexagons we are seeing everywhere?

 


And they are positively addicting to make - here are one of the several bunches I have made waiting to find their way into a quilt pattern.  These hexagons are made from Moda's "Tapestry" line by Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree & Co.  I think I have loved every line that Joanna has come out with.  It was fun to finally meet her at the Portland Spring Quilt Market this May 2013.  I wioll have about 40 of these hexies when I am done.  Hexies are my take along project and I have them neatly arranged in a fishing tackle box ( a new box not a crusty old one!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CDpyJDS2Q




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This quilt has been on my to do list for so long

I'm going to take advantage and take this class.  I even got the pattern already!

Being taught by Susan Hyatt  at Quilt St. George My fondest memories are those of Sunday night dinners, and holidays spent at Grandma's ...

Being taught by Susan Hyatt at Quilt St. George

My fondest memories are those of Sunday night dinners, and holidays spent at Grandma’s house.  Every first Sunday  of every month, after church, we’d pile into the Oldsmobile and head for grandma’s, where dinner was served on hot plates directly from the oven, and I was seated next to my grandmother, a proud, statuesque woman who evoked pride for her family in food and conversation.  On the ride home my sister and I would lie down in the back of the station wagon and watch the moon and the stars following us home . . . believing they were watching over us until our safe arrival back home. . . . That’s what this pattern brings to my heart.

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