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Quilts in the Garden Tour

Saturday was the Marys River Quilt Guild's annual Quilts in the Garden tour.  This year, the tour was held in Corvallis, Oregon, and featured seven residential gardens.  The quilts at each home were grouped in one or more of several categories, including garden themes, challenge quilts, celebration quilts, art quilts, contemporary quilts, mini and small quilts, and fruit and vegetable quilts.   As the pictures show, the gardens were as varied as the quilts.  It was an inspiring day for this novice quilter and lazy gardener.

One of the gardens had beautiful fruit trees (peaches above, plums below).

These pink hibiscus flowers had to be at least 8 in. in diameter.  I've never seen anything like them. 

Blueberry Cobbler Quilt

I've procrastinated long enough!  Aunt J's birthday is barely over a month away, and I promised to make her a quilt.  Pale blues and yellow was her only request.  While checking on line for ideas, I found a nice pattern in just the right colors at The Quilter's Magazine web site.  The free pattern is called Blueberry Cobbler and was the featured free pattern for September 2009.  Perfect timing.

I'm still uncomfortable choosing fabrics for a new project, so this pattern appealed to me because it required only five different fabrics -- four shades of blue and one yellow.  How hard could that be?  Don't ask -- I still struggled.  In the end, I chose three blues, a very pale yellow in place of the palest blue, and a bright yellow.  Here's what I came up with.

The center field is comprised of two blocks set on point.  One block goes together very quickly, the other takes a little more time, but isn't difficult.   I think this will be the first project I have custom quilted instead of an overall pattern, and I can't wait to see the finished project.