I always welcome ideas, comments, and suggestions on what I can do to make my patterns easier to understand or add suggested quilting or thread work ideas. It was an honor and a privilege to do so. I love to travel and was fortunate enough to be invited to teach at a week-long retreat in Israel, in 2018, by the Israeli Quilt Guild. So watch for announcements.Īs if I'm not busy enough, I teach at local quilt shops in the Southern California area.
#Ttfabrics free patterns series
I also have a series of Hawks, native to the desert areas that are in the design phase. My next "stained glass" designs will be based on the beautiful Cactus flowers found blooming in Arizona and California as well as the amazing wildflowers. Since I am originally from Tucson Arizona, I consider myself a "desert rat", and I have been taking lots of cactus flower pictures and southwest scenes. This newfound technique opened up a new series of Hawaiian Tropical Stained Glass Flower patterns, again based on photographs that I took around the islands.Īfter 18 years of living on the big island, four years ago, 2019, my husband and I relocated to Southern California. I was introduced to "stained glass" type designs by a dear friend and fellow quilt artist. I also created unique applique patterns from photographs such as the Surfing Duo, Scenes of the Big Island, and a series of Modern Prairie Designs reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright also known as Craftsman style. Over time I added my ideas for tribal designs and modified petroglyphs. I produce my turtle (Honu ~ the Hawaiian name) designs so that they are "uniquely tropical, with a Hawaiian flair". Mine will be donated to The Alternative House through my local quilt shop ( The Quilt Patch) which collects them and distributes quilts, fleece throws and other items like this.Designs by Mary of Hawaii was created several years ago due to various requests for unique Hawaiian-type, machine applique designs using the shape of the swimming sea turtles (Honu), with scenes reminiscent of the big island, that being the unique shell-backs created by using negative space and keeping the "positive" for a secondary design. You can read more about how you can be involved and sew some pillowcases. Many thanks to Benartex for generously supplying me with all this fabric. I dream of finding pink sneakers one day. I especially love those sneakers, don't you? I used the Cool Girl Collection by Benartex Fabrics and sewed every last piece I was given. Sneakers, bikes, hearts and lovey-dovey words for the girls
My husband made me remove a frog from our hotel room when we were in Cuba!įrogs I can handle snakes, you got to be kidding! But I can see that my grandsons would LOVE THESE. Believe me, as the mother of 3 daughters, I NEVER would have thought of using these for my little girls (who are very grown now). Tropical Rainforest is a gorgeous collection that is perfect for anyone who's not afraid of slithery creatures. I guess I got carried away!įirst, for the boys, I selected the Tropical Rainforest III Collection by Kanvas for Benartex:įrogs, Lizards, Iguanas and - yikes! - Snakes! Well, what can I say? If I make enough she never has to do laundry (her most detested chore)!
Now, those of you who know me and my fervor for making pillowcases for my two little grandsons, know that my daughter Hilary has sternly advised me NO MORE PILLOWCASES. Here is the link at the APQ site for the free pattern I used for today's tutorial: Roll it Up (scroll down for the pattern and a video). If you scroll down on that page you will see how I rolled up the main fabric to fit into the hem for a NO EXPOSED SEAM finish. You can see my blog post tutorial here ( Pillowcase Tutorial) for when I made some smaller pillowcases for my grandsons. I selected the one that is similar to the one I've used for the past 10+ years. I've partnered with them with the generous assistance of Benartex Fabrics to make some of these.įirst, I selected one of their 43 FREE pillowcase patterns from their web site. Travel size pillow case for my grandson Miles using the 10,000 BC Collection from BenartexĪmerican Patchwork and Quilting (APQ) continues to work toward their goal of providing 1,000,000 (yes, that's ONE MILLION) pillowcases for charity.
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