Hosta BOM and City Shadows in City Culture 2

The City Culture II collection is shipping in April. But, shops can order City Culture 2 10" stacks now! So, I've got a project you can make NOW and I wanted to share another project that I've been involved with that uses this collection. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Jayme Crowe at Bella Nonna Design Studio. She asked if I would quilt her Hosta BOM in her featured collection. I was honored!

Here are some detailed photos during the quilting process. Here are the threads I considered using. I'm not sure I ended up using all of them, but several for sure.

I started off with doing a wainscot style quilting in the border. Laying a measuring tape down helps me to hit the spacing correctly. It is important to space these evenly so that once you get to the opposite end of the border you want the spacing to look right.

The leaves are the feature, so didn't want to add something in the background that would distract from the leaves. A squiggly set of lines seemed to mimic what was going on in the motifs of the fabric and complemented it well.

The quilting evolved to include more ditch work in the borders and vein work in each leaf. Consider the stabilizing material that you use when doing the applique'/decorative stitching so that it isn't too thick to quilt.

This is now a block of the month program available to shops or you can buy the pattern directly from her website at Bella Nonna Design Studio. (free shipping)

This week I've been on the Big Island of Hawaii and I thought a lot about the lines in each of these leaves. Here are a few plants that I saw at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens, just north of Hilo.

  

Here are some other projects that were shown at Market, featuring this collection.

But, I've got one more NEW DESIGN to share with you.

In my last Island Batik Ambassador box I was sent a 10” stack  (currently available at Hancock's of Paducah) of this City Culture 2 collection. Recently I became acquainted with Missouri Star Quilt Company’s It’s All an Illusion pattern which reminded me of the Shadow Box quilts I've seen for several years. I also saw displayed at market Shadowbox by Mountainpeek Creations using the Mountain Majesty collection. All of these ideas inspired my version that I’m calling City Shadows. I used the 10” stack, cut them into 5” squares or 5” x 10” rectangles. Sometimes using one square, one rectangle, or both sewn together (14 ½”). The shadows had to be adjusted accordingly. Consider starting with a 10" square. Using the golden ratio for a pleasing design aesthetic, I decided on these 3 sizes. I also like to think about the 'sun' being in the upper left corner, so the shadows are to the lower right.

Shadow Fabric is BE24-E2 Marble Charcoal - available at Hancock's of Paducah

Background Fabric is Parchment / NO44 - available at Hancock's of Paducah

I've included links above for the top: the 10" stack, the shadow and the background fabrics available at Hancock's of Paducah. You are going to love the fabrics in this collection. There are really some stunning ones. The cracked glass motif is just amazing!

This is quilted with 'Breath of the gods' panto (hand guided) --thought it looked like wind swirling around in the city--with #Aurifil thread (lt grey) - #2600. I used the same fabric as the background for the binding. I usually add a dark border and at least a dark binding, but it just felt like the shadowed boxes spoke sufficiently on their own.

This one is ~ 47" x 53"

So, for the backing, I just made one LARGE shadow box!

Chestnut Bark is the shadow on this one.  (City Culture II Industrial District ChestnutBark)  -- shipping in April.

The main block is Paisley Dot - Pixel - Dusk also shipping in April.






































If you'd like to make this pattern, it is available as a PDF download at Craftsy. FREE through January 28. You will be able to purchase it from my NEW website at www.kissedquilts.com starting February 1.

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WINTER RECAP
SPRING RECAP

SUMMER SCHEDULE this Past week:

January 22 – Paisley Dot
Pamela Quilts • Seams Like a Dream • Mary Make Made Mine

January 23 – Sunflower Serenade
Kathys Kwilts and More • Whispers of Yore

January 24 – City Culture 2
Mary Mack Made Mine • heARTs Creations

January 25 – City Culture 2
The Quilt Rambler • Lizard Creek Quilts • KISSed Quilts --you're here!

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