On the first day of each month, a designer releases 2 blocks for the In Our Garden Blog Hop. One block is a traditional pieced block and the other block is an applique block. There have been flowers, and frogs, and birds, and all sorts of cute garden goodness.
My block is a "Love Flower" for the pieced block.
And a watering can sprinkling water on a droopy flower for my applique block.
There is just a little bit of hand embroidery work that doesn't take much time at all! I also did not cut fabric stems for the flowers. I just used my sewing machine and made a wide zigzag satin stitch for the stems.
I used fabrics from Timeless Treasures Pop Basic line for my applique and some on my Love Flower block.
You can see all the colors here. I just love these fabrics and all the wonderful colors they have. Thank you very much Timeless Treasures.
You can get these two patterns for FREE this month here. Be sure to download them right away because next month they won't be free anymore.
Here is the complete schedule for In Our Garden Blog Hop.
Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy
Carol – Just Let Me Quilt
April
May
Carla - Creatin’ in the Sticks
Sue – Super Mom No Cape
July
Joan – Moosestash Quilting
January
There's a Facebook page, too! Share you blocks and/or see what everyone else is making. There are giveaways too!
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And speaking of giveaways, The Fat Quarter Shop has so generously given us a gift certificate to give away. Just leave a comment and tell me if you have a garden (vegetable or flower or both).
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I have both, I love your blocks Doris!
ReplyDeletejen dot barnard at btinternet dot com
I have a garden with both flowers and vegetables!
ReplyDeleteLove your two blocks and the little star in the middle adds such a sunshine feeling!
Hugs, Martina
I have a garden full of perennials that previous owners planted. I'm thinking all but the Peonies were gifts and planted wherever they found a spot, but it blooms from spring through mid-summer. I love the colors and free formed planting. Cdahlgren at live dot Com
ReplyDeleteI have a garden full of perennials that previous owners planted. I'm thinking all but the Peonies were gifts and planted wherever they found a spot, but it blooms from spring through mid-summer. I love the colors and free formed planting. Cdahlgren at live dot Com
ReplyDeleteI had both flower and veggie gardens for years, now that I am disabled, my husband makes me a porch garden- Pot and Pots of flowers on the porch. I can sit on the porch and enjoy them and see the beautiful flowers everytime I look out the back door!!
ReplyDeletecork@pa.rr.com
I have several gardens. Flowers around the house, hostas near the chicken yard, a big garden for veggies, a field garden where I grow corn, and sunflowers, a pumpkin garden (cause those boogers spread!), a berry garden, and a small orchard. We also plant containers which sit on the porch.
ReplyDeleteI have flowers that came from my maternal great grandmother and my grandmother. Also from my mother. I also have a peony plant that came from the original plant that my paternal great great grandmother planted here in America after the family immigrated from Germany around 1860.
ReplyDeleteI have flowers that came from my maternal great grandmother and my grandmother. Also from my mother. I also have a peony plant that came from the original plant that my paternal great great grandmother planted here in America after the family immigrated from Germany around 1860.
ReplyDeleteI have a flower garden-a long border along the driveway that I have fun with each year adding new plants!
ReplyDeleteI do garden a bit- mostly in containers due to a lack of sun in you backyard. I prefer to spend the time on things I can eat :) but well behaved flowers are welcome too!
ReplyDeleteI have a vegetable garden that hopefully will produce potatoes this year. Love, love, love your block...thank you for the pattern!
ReplyDeleteyes, I can't live without a garden! I have berries, flowers and a few vegetables. Ah spring and everything is coming alive. thank you for the chance
ReplyDeleteI have flowers and herbs in my garden! (lalaluu at yahoo dot com)
ReplyDeleteI have a flower garden. 24Tangent@gmail.com
ReplyDeletewe have a vegetable garden and next to it are blueberries and red raspberries. On the outside of the vegetable garden fence is a butterfly garden. On the patio is herbs and flowers. And flowers all around the house.
ReplyDeletequilting dash lady at comcast dot net
I actually don't have either:(. I recently moved to Arizona and right now all of my flowers are in pots so maybe I have a flower pot garden.
ReplyDeleteI have vegetable beds as well as flowers and plants x
ReplyDeleteIain.ross30 at gmail dot com
Unfortunately we just moved into a rental that doesn't allow gardening! Can you believe that?!! Anyway I still have potted flowers - have to have something to brighten up the place :) Your blocks are so pretty - I'm anxious to get them started. One quick question - did you put any kind of stabilizer behind the embroidery?
ReplyDeleteI just plant lots of flowers all over my yard--no specific garden!!!
ReplyDeleteI have a flower garden and a small veggie garden. Love your cheerful blocks. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteLove your blocks! I enjoy gardening and have several flower garden areas around my yard. I also care for a floral courtyard garden at the school I work at. sewgood414athotmaildotcom
ReplyDeleteHi Doris! Your blocks are delightful. I grow tomatoes, but that's the extent of my gardening. I's rather quilt!
ReplyDeleteLove your Blocks! Thank you for free Patterns! :) (& for chance to win your Give-a-way!)
ReplyDeleteWe have a vegie garden, and flower gardens too....and Peach Orchard! Yum!
Great blocks!!! I have both a flower and a veggie garden. Nothing beats the taste of fresh veggies.
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We have a huge vegetable garden every summer. I put up lots of food...mostly I can the veggies, but I do freeze corn and squash. I also have two perrenial flower beds. Thanks for the chance to win the gift certificate! :)
ReplyDeleteI'd love a vegetable garden but I don't have time at the minute so just a few flowers for me. I love your flower blocks!
ReplyDeleteI try to grow tulips but sometimes (most of the time) the bunnies and deer thwart my efforts! Love your blocks!
ReplyDeleteI love my gardens. Good reason to get outside. Plenty of fresh vegetables and flowers.
ReplyDeleteLove the blocks, especially the water can. Sew cute. I have a veggie garden of sorts, not very big but enough for DH and me. I have flowers stuck everywhere but not really a garden.
ReplyDeleteI have mostly flowers. I do have a strawberry bed. When I plant other vegetables, the rabbits and racoons seem to eat them before they are ready for me to pick. Tomato worms tend to get my tomatoes as well.
ReplyDeleteI have both. Perennials in the flower garden and just a small vegetable garden. Really enjoying the blocks.
ReplyDeleteNope, my only garden is if this quilty variety. I love your blocks, though, and I love hand embroidery. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI have both. Love the flowers for their beauty and the veggies and berries for their great taste. Your blocks are wonderful. Rina
ReplyDeleteI only have a flower garden, but I would love to have a vegetable garden too but have no room for one. Thanks!
ReplyDeletePlease click on the delaineelliott above for my email link.
Enjoyed reading you blog! I have both a veggie and a flower garden and my husband has a rock garden too ! thanks!
ReplyDeleteI have multiple gardens. The plants are all perennials/trees/shrubs with colour all year long. Also have a fairly large vegetable garden.
ReplyDeleteThanks for another great applique block (I'm not doing the piecing ones at the moment) and for the chance to win.
Great block - love the watering can. I've got a small flower garden, mainly roses!
ReplyDeleteI have a weed garden, lol...but we will have a vegetable and also, hopefully, a flower garden too when it's warm enough to plant. Snow still on the ground here in WNY. Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist (at) aol.com
ReplyDeleteI have vegetable and flower gardens. And right now I have achy knees from spending all afternoon gardening on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteThese blocks are so fun. I do have a vegetable garden and usually I plant in my boxes on the porch since my husband tends to run over all the outdoor plants, with his lawnmower;)
ReplyDeleteDebbie
I have tomatoes in pots and flowers all over. I love gardening! But also love your block.
ReplyDeleteI do have a garden but don't know if it will be planted this year.
ReplyDeleteFun blocks Doris, I have a large veggie garden...be awhile yet before we can plant!
ReplyDeleteI used to have a vegetable garden, but now just flowers! I'm having trouble finding the patterns for this month.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a vegetable garden, but now just flowers! I'm having trouble finding the patterns for this month.
ReplyDeleteI have a small porch where I plant a few flowering plants. I do not have enough space for vegetables.
ReplyDeleteI have too many flower gardens as evidence from todays weeding! lol I usually have a veggie garden with tomatoes, peppers, some squash plants and strawberries, but it's not even tilled yet.
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