Mary Engelbreit and Yellow Brick Road

I finally got around to doing a Mary Engelbreit quilt with some of the fabrics I've been collecting over the years. Holly Holdermans last line Pam Kitty reminded me of ME and so I got inspired. I used some of both fabrics.

This is that good ol' Yellow Brick Road Pattern.

 

There are 3 different blocks in yellow brick road: They are all 9".

This one.

 

this one....

 

and this one....

 

You put them together randomly-ish and it looks like this:

 

I put a border on it that I saw on one of my ME notepads.

It was a lot of fuss to applique on all those little black tear drops...;o)

 

and there it is!...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annie Basket Quilt with Lakehouse Fabrics!

Lots of Polka Dots in this one. 

 

I just looove.. this Annie Basket quilt. I only did half of it to hang in the store here, but it was so much fun!

I wasn't sure about it at first because it seemed kind of a cheat... the baskets and bases and sashing are all printed on there for you. All you do is put the applique on. I sorta wanted to have the satisfaction of making my own baskets. But, this is by far more economical, so went for it and I'm so glad I did!

 

 

Here is one of the panels. There are two in this set. I like how she gave us some fabric scraps on the side to work with. :o) This line was just the living end! ...the roses, the polka dots...delightful!

What I didn't like was that you have buy the gingham (shown below) to re-sash the top and bottom. The first time this was cut for me, I got home and realized that she hadn't left me a quarter inch to attach the exact same fabric back on. I didn't blame her, it was impossible to know where to cut it. I had to go back and get a new panel cause the first one was ruined. It would have been so much better if they had given you the full plaid strip plus a quarter inch like they did on the sides of the panel. Or at the Very Least, a dotted line for the clerks to know that they have to cut down the middle of the sashing.

 

It was so so fun to pick some cute fabrics for the applique!

I used matching colored thread to do a nice big blanket stitch around each piece.

This is probably my favorite block. I love all these fabrics as strawberries! and the ric rac under the leaf!? ...to die for.

I quilted exactly around each basket and handle so it fools you a little bit into thinking it was pieced on there.

 

Polka dot Cherries! Plaid handle!

 

Here's how I quilted Annie Basket Quilt on my home machine - with loops in straw colored thread.

I love to quilt squares around the borders with and X. You do that in a zig zag all the way around rather than one X at a time so that you're not stopping and tying off constantly. but you probably knew that....