southern weddings magazine | Evening in the Garden Quilts

This warm, summery quilt was lots of fun to make, and it made a small dent in the string boxes. It’s definitely a redo of this quilt, the one that was almost visible in Southern Weddings Magazine (Can’t see it? Look behind the bride.) Completely coincidentally, Southern Living Magazine contacted me this week to say that the wedding spread would be appearing in their upcoming issue. No details yet. Maybe there will be a different shot that shows my quilt!

This time I used 12″ blocks with no borders. The other quilt also had more variety in the centers because I made them from a charm pack, and cut these from yardage.

The back is very ~~boring~~ restful.

I free-motion quilted a sun in every block with a sunny orange Masterpiece thread from Superior. I really enjoyed doing them and I like the way they turned out.

Hope you are having some fun summer finishes. I’m linking up to Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

One of the exciting things that happened to me in 2012 was having a quilt selected to appear in Volume Five of Southern Weddings Magazine. This is Hot Summer Cabins. It was inspired by a charm pack of warm toned batiks that I used for the oversized center “chimneys”. I kind of thought of it as a beach sunset.

See if you can find the quilt here, right in the center.

The editor spotted it in my Etsy shop, and now that we can see the color scheme for the wedding shoot, it makes a lot of sense. The colors sure are great together. Unfortunately, that lovely tall bride stood right in front of it…. I hope it shows up better in another shot.

Lara Casey just let me know today that all three quilts in that photo are being given away on the web site today. I can’t tell how long the giveaway will be open. A few of the commenters are saying nice things about my quilt and requesting it as their prize.

So, I’d like my next brush with fame to be a little more prominent, but this was still fun. If you’re looking for wedding ideas, Southern Weddings is a very enjoyable and inspiring magazine.