Pick Five Monday: Heather's Nautical edition
>> Monday, February 7, 2011
Happy Monday! This week's Pick Five Monday was written by the adorable Heather from June {Vintage}. She's got some wonderful picks in a great theme. Thanks, Heather!
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Hello! I am Heather from over at June {Vintage} and am excited to share five favorites for this week's Pick Five Monday. I {occasionally} run a vintage store on Etsy when I am not busy being a full-time mom to a 3.5 year old ball of energy and a foster mom to some amazing kids. I used to be a police detective but you can now find me hiding out in thrift stores and behind the lens of my camera. I have been head over heels in love with a sailor for more than a decade-which is why this week's favorites are hitting the high seas!
Pick 1: So many things to love about this: the colors of the water + sun...the fussy cut fabric..the patchwork sailboat... so cute!
(credit: PatchworkDuck)
Pick 2: The charcoal with the rich colors of Plume fabric line by Tula Pink provide a perfect color palette to the simple "sails" on this square quilt. There is a lot of nautical themed items out there, particularly for little boys. If we ever have a girl, this option would be a great nursery addition!
(credit: teaginny)
Pick 3: I love the more traditional repetition of the sailboat pattern on this quilt (it is very similar to a vintage sailboat quilt that I have that was my husband's grandfather's-who was also in the Navy!) However, with the modern fabrics (polka dots!) and the very popular use of a rainbow color arrangement, this quilt is what makes quilting so amazing: a perfect balance of traditional and modern.
(credit: BlueElephantStitches)
Pick 4: Applique, tiny scraps, free motion quilting and one of my new favorite fabric lines (Urban Chik's Dream On): perfection! This isn't a traditional quilt block, but the quilter {Aneela Hoey} made it into a mini-quilt and it is a great combination of some of the most popular modern quilting aspects happening right now...
(credit: Aneela Hoey)
Pick 5: All good sailors use the stars to navigate the vast ocean! Amanda (MrsMcPorkChop) put together this amazing paper-pieced star pattern with fussy cut mermaids...I love, love, love the pop of color on the "horizon" in the corners!
(credit: mrsmcporkchop)
Thank you Erin for letting me share some of my favorites this week...it sure had me dreaming of salty summer air on this cold, winter day!
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Pick Five Monday is a weekly column on the Quilting Bee Blocks blog featuring five of my favorite bee blocks from our Flickr pool. I am currently scheduling guest posters for 2011 to pick five of their favorite blocks and write a post telling us why. Email me for more information on how you can write one!
11 comments:
mmmmmm.....those are some yummy blocks. i've never seen HST as sails before, but they sure are pretty. :)
Wonderful blocks! Was wondering what happened to the Block tutorials? They are not displaying. Loved the tutorials, hope they return.
OMG how on earth could you pick anything from all these lovelies!!! It would be impossible. Just impossible. And you should be so proud of you. You are doing a wonderful job in life. You did before being a police person and now an even more wonderful job being the carer of needy children. If I was your Mother I would be swelling with pride that you were mine that's for sure. But I surely love all these blocks and shall put your blog on mine that's for sure. WELL DONE is all I can say.
Lots of Love
Patti the displaced Yank xxx
La foto del quilt de los barcos me enamora (las otras no se por que no las puedo ver), es una preciosidad.
Thanks so much for picking my block (I made the first one)! I also made a sister block to go with it, which looks like a Pepperidge Farm goldfish cracker. Check it out on my blog: http://www.patchworkduck.com/2011/04/my-quilt-block.html
Nice blocks - and quilt :-)
beautiful blocks, they are works of art!
Great blocks.....anyone know of a bee that's looking for another member? I'd love to belong.
Peggy in NJ
I get so much incredible inspiration from this blog and the Flickr group as well. I featured you on my blog today with a link to you and your Flickr Group.
http://loveaffairwithmybrother.blogspot.com/2011/07/web-favs-of-week_28.html
Pick 5 is a good theme for this week. All I hear people talking about is the lottery ;)
Mmmm, just coming upon your blog, super great! Really love that fussy cut star. I'd love to turn it on it's side and throw a little N S E and W on the corners.
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